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What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
Ken Wilber
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Ken Wilber
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 31
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Oklahoma City
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