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“Colligite fragmenta”. Particularity and universality
“Colligite quae superaverunt fragmenta, ne pereant (Jn 6,12). Nothing is despised, nothing is left out. Everything is integrated, accepted, transfigured… .. Think all the fragments of our present world to reunite them in a whole, not monolithic but rather harmonious” (The Cosmotheandric Experience, Madrid 1999).
Faced with the reductionism so typical of Western thought, Panikkar’s principle characteristic is an obsession for the all, for arriving at reality in all its fullness, for a harmony among diverse particular realities and distinct cultural conceptions of the modern West and the East. It is a matter of approaching an authentic “vision of the whole”. Raimon Panikkar
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and also spiritual expirience…
it allows me to ponder
deeply the mistery of reality.”