Quotes About Wholeness

Separately they had different strengths. Together they were complete.

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

There's nothing left to contend against and nothing left that must be done, and there will never be anything that must be done ever again.

Relationships between seemingly separate ideas can start to make their own whole when we stand at a distance, searching for patterns.

And then I felt a strange stirring inside, a kind of surging fulfillment, a feeling that things were just the way they should be, now and evermore, world without end; that what was brought together here must never be rent asunder.

We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

It's all part of it, man.

It seemed we were no longer separate, but were one.

And I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I'm not outside my world anymore, and I'm not really inside it either. The thing is, there's no difference anymore between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain.

I'm erased. I'm gone. I'm nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl'...'I'm not outside my world anymore, and I'm not really inside it either. The thing is, there's no difference anymore between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain...I like that most of all, being rain.

I believe we forget who we are over time, and in our state of forgetfulness we struggle and employ all kinds of learned behaviors that don't necessarily help us or bring us happiness. Each of us has a self that exists undamaged and whole, from the moment we are born waiting to be reclaimed.

Everything is there

Bring your whole self to work. I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.

Life is a totality of time

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

Life is more than survival

Life is the totality of time

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.

What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.