吾身一小天地也 使喜怒不愆 好惡有則 便是燮理的功夫 天地一大父母也 使民無怨咨 物無氛疹 亦是敦睦的氣象 (前 128)
My body is a small universe. If well-disciplined at happiness or anger that have no faults, and well-coped with proper ethics at the friendliness or hatred, then it will be an effort to follow the universal life in harmony. Heaven and Earth are one great parent. If there is no resentment and lamentation from people and no harm to all things, this might be also the image of the Heaven. (Book 128)
Understanding the interdependence of self, society, and the universe.
Wilber's concept of "Kosmos" (with a capital "K") differs from the scientific view of the cosmos. Where cosmos is by definition a physical reality (which pronounces physics as the perfect and only real science), Kosmos refers to the traditional and pre-scientific worldview which acknowledges not only matter, but also life, mind, soul and spirit. Kosmos