Quotes About Wholeness

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

It's true that the two halves were no longer hinged. They weren't clinging to each other, but each was a cream-colored wing with a rosy flush inside. I held one half in each hand. If I took this shell across the room or across the universe, and the other one stayed here, they'd still be two halves of a whole, and anyone would know they belonged together.

Don't let it be all in your head, nor all in your body.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

There is a vast difference between academic thought and intelligence. Academic thought can only function within the context of separativeness, whilst intelligence is a spontaneous co-operation with the fundamental wholeness that is inherent within the process of life.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

You can't just buy the sports section of 'The New York Times.' You take the whole paper.

He completed her in a way that she'd never thought possible.

If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.

I would fill my soul with flesh, my flesh with soul

The soul is a circle

Life's fucked up. It just is. It's got ups and downs and I say it's worse not appreciating the good things, because then what's the point? It's like the Native Americans used to say, right? Gotta use all of the buffalo. Life is a whole damn animal, and you can't waste any part of it.