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Is the Spiritual Journey a Never-Ending Circle or a Spiral (or perhaps both)?
June 26, 2007 at 11:19 pm by mahud
…Siddhartha began to speak and said: “Well, Govinda, are we on the right road? Are we gaining knowledge? Are we approaching salvation? Or are we perhaps going in circles—we who thought to escape from the cycle?”
Govinda said: “We have learned much, Siddhartha. There still remains much to learn. We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
Hesse, Hermann, 1951, ‘Siddhartha’, p.14 (New Directions)
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