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Quotes About Wholeness

As the sun and each atom of ether is a sphere complete in itself, and yet at the same time only a part of a whole too immense for man to comprehend, so each individual has within himself his own aims and yet has them to serve a general purpose incomprehensible to man.
~ Leo Tolstoy
nothing other than the harmony of the individual limbs and parts, so that nothing can be added or taken away without damaging it.
~ Leon Battista Alberti
While Heisenberg had described the tusks and Schrodinger the trunk, the total elephant is so much more than its parts.
~ Leon M. Lederman
The most precious secret has been leaked: There is no Opposition!
~ Leonard Cohen
The soul's journey is from Oneness into separation, ultimately to return to Oneness." ~ Leonard Jacobson
~ Leonard Jacobson
The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
He had seen them bowing down low in islam, that supple word whose associated meanings in Arabic ripple out to include peace and wholeness, but which means above all submission. True, it was not a forced submission but a willed and willing acceptance.
~ Lesley Hazleton
The ancestors had called Europeans "the orphan people" and had noted that as with orphans taken in by selfish or coldhearted clanspeople, few Europeans had remained whole. They failed to recognize the earth was their mother. Europeans were like their first parents, Adam and Eve, wandering aimlessly because the insane God who had sired them had abandoned them.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Do not reduce me to an understanding. I am more than that.
~ Leslie Miklosy
Holiness leads to wholeness and wholeness leads to happiness.
~ Leslie Vernick
It is impossible to be spiritually mature when we are emotionally unhealthy.
~ Leslie Vernick
When Jesus says to Simon, "Follow me," the response is a single act of faith and obedience; there is no gap between a mental action of believing and a bodily action of following. The human person is not a mind attached to a body but a single psychosomatic being.
~ Lesslie Newbigin
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable — each segment distinct.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
We all carry within our souls the capcity to heal ourselves.
~ Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle.
~ Eric McCormack
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
~ Jeanette Winterson
We're here to keep you in one piece, if you ignore us, you're quite likely to end up in two pieces, or lots of pieces, it's all part of the paradox.
~ Jeanette Winterson
In the most fundamental way I have my first glimpse of how the ingredients come together, how each is nothing in particular by itself but once they are joined they can make something miraculous.
~ Jeanne Ray
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.
~ Joseph Joubert
When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.
~ Maureen Murdock
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
~ Peter Straub
At some time in the future scientists, physicians, mediums and healers will have to work together to perfect the science of the whole.
~ Betty Shine
Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.
~ Cristina Saralegui
Women's work is always toward wholeness.
~ May Sarton