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Quotes About Wholeness

The Magician represents the man who has attained harmony and equilibrium between the spontaneity of the unconscious (in the sense given to it by C. G. Jung) and the deliberate action of the conscious (in the sense of "I" or ego consciousness).
~ Valentin Tomberg
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
~ Victor Hugo
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
~ Matthew Fox
Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.
~ Johann Joachim Winckelmann
All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
~ Eli Siegel
To become completely healed is to become the healer - bringing the beauty and meaning you found into the world.
~ Alberto Villoldo
'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
~ Alexander Pope
Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.
~ Robinson Jeffers
We are an integral part of beauty, not something separate.
~ Dewitt Jones
The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The beauty is the balance.
~ Frazey Ford
Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
~ Gregory Maguire
I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.
~ Mike Duke
We can use our lives, in other words, to wake up to the fact that we're not separate: the energy that causes us to live and be whole and awake and alive is just the energy that creates everything, and we're part of that. We can use our lives to connect with that, or we can use them to become resentful, alienated, resistant, angry, bitter. As always, it's up to us.
~ Pema Chodron
we already have exactly what we need, that what we have already is good.
~ Pema Chodron
In the same way, if we see our so-called limitations with clarity, precision, gentleness, goodheartedness, and kindness and, having seen them fully, then let go, open further, we begin to find that our world is more vast and more refreshing and fascinating than we had realized before. In other words, the key to feeling more whole and less shut off and shut down is to be able to see clearly who we are and what we're doing.
~ Pema Chodron
That word 'well'—it's an old word, and it means the same as 'whole'.
~ Unknown
The brokenness of his body (and we are his body) is healed in our love, in our common life—which is his love, his life, in us.
~ Unknown
Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.
~ Peter Ackroyd
One cannot hire a hand—the whole man always comes with it
~ Peter F. Drucker
The earth is an indivisible whole, just as each of us is an indivisible whole.
~ Peter M. Senge
They always say 'Oh yes, you have a Kan-Ban system, we do also. You have quality circles, we do also. Your people fill out standard work descriptions, ours do also.' They all see the parts and have copied the parts. What they do not see is the way all the parts work together.
~ Peter M. Senge
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.
~ Peter M. Senge
The only whole heart is the broken heart. But it must be wholly broken
~ Peter Matthiessen