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Ken Wilber

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

Teacher

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The passage suggests that the part of you that seeks guidance is your ego, not your true spiritual self, which is already complete and aware. It means the desire to find a teacher comes from your sense of separation or incompleteness, rather than from your enlightened nature.

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