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Quotes About Wholeness

That our own standing as part of an integrated universe not only allows us but, by singular divine fiat, compels--induces--us to connect, to merge, to unify--
~ Peter Orner
The point then is to help break the false distinction between the idea that there are those who are whole and those who have a lack. For the true distinction is between those who hide their lack under the fiction of wholeness and those who are able to embrace it.
~ Peter Rollins
System thinking is a discipline of seeing whole.
~ Peter Senge
Body of yin, soul of yang. Metal and fire unified. The outer and inner; microcosmos in my palm.
~ Philip K. Dick
Everything's the same, when you break through to absolute reality; it's all one vast blur.
~ Philip K. Dick
Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. [...] Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.
~ David Levithan
Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.
~ David Levithan
Your life is your life. You can't live it in compartments.Each place you're in has a door open at either end.
~ David Levithan
Then it hits me. Maybe we're the pieces, What? Maybe that's it. With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. Tikkun olam.
~ David Levithan
The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half.
~ David Levithan
LYNDA: Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They're not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed? TINY: Agreed!
~ David Levithan
In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole.
~ David Levithan
Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes. TINY: People are halves? LYNDA: They're not trying to sell you on it yet, but believe me, they will. The idea that two is the ideal, and that one is only good as half of two. You are not a half, and you should never treat someone else like a half. Agreed?
~ David Levithan
Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.
~ David Levithan
Maybe we're the pieces, What? Maybe that's it. With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. Tikkun olam.
~ David Levithan
What stuff is a man made of, who has freed himself of his wounds?
~ Yasmina Reza
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. —L. P. Jacks
~ Yvon Chouinard
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation.
~ Yvon Chouinard
I like adding stuff to my game, I want to be as complete a player as possible. So I want to be able to do a bit of everything and be good, or great at everything.
~ Brook Lopez
Work and rest are one entity.
~ Howard Thurman
The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight.
~ Hugo von Hofmannsthal
You can't understand anything unless you unless you understand everything.
~ Huston Smith
Gladness is welling up with in me now – I am healed, I am satisfied, I am full, I am living in the total provision of Christ.
~ Unknown
No practice exists in isolation.
~ Idries Shah