Quotes About Wholeness

The Cripple Who Is Whole," murmured

Heaven desires the earth, and the earth is lost without heaven. Make your life a marriage of the two, as lovers that never part, and you will find peace.

I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys...

the beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety, but also from variety in unity.

The poem written, his selfconsciousness violated, he was whole again.

When we live a seamless life, the language we use, the way we treat those around us, and our attitude will all be the same from one venue to the next.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

A vacancy in the heart does not accomodate itself to a stop-gap.

He thought her more beautiful than ever, with a beauty that was at once feminine and angelic, that wholeness of beauty that had moved Petrarch to song and brought Dante to his knees.

In that quiet, Ruby heard the echo of a broken family; they were individual pieces, now separate, wanting a wholeness that had been shattered.

He hadn't realized how time could unspool the years of your life until for a second you were fourteen again, crying from a place so deep it seemed to predate you, desperate to be whole again.

But what if that was exactly what you wanted: everything?

All In All Is All We Are

Creo que lo que tenemos en el presente lo comprende todo –dijo ella al final, escogiendo cuidadosamente las palabras–. Ahí esta todo, no falta nada. Por lo tanto, no hay ninguna necesidad de pedir lo que nos falta a Dios ni de buscarlo en el otro mundo o en el paraíso. Porque ya existe.

She hadn't known she was crushed until she wasn't, and she didn't know she was fragmented until she became whole

He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe.

Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.

The divine law of balance and equilibrium is doing its perfect work.

So I sort of broke into a million pieces but didn't let the pieces all tumble apart. Like I tried to just be cracked all over but not shattered.

We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.

Only God can heal a wounded soul. He is able to repair what is deemed irreparable.

Given that the shared understanding of truth has been central to language, religion and society, when we ignore small lies, we inflict damage on the larger truth. This is not holiness we're talking about, but wholeness and integrity.

The idea infusing this book: training for a marathon while remaining connected to our whole self. Mind, Body and Spirit – what animates our lives, uplifts us and stirs our energy – are not fixed, mutually exclusive states. They are organic trajectories expressed as an integrated spiral, their balance a process in which we are not conductor but collaborator.

A thing is complete when you can let it be.