Quotes About Wholeness

For one beautiful moment—and who could ask anything more of life?—I needed and wanted for nothing.

Each letter in the word SPECIES represents a different area of a truly healthy being. Social, Physical, Emotional, Career, Intellectual, Environmental and Spiritual. We have to make all the parts work in order to be truly healthy, Mom.

For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds," says the Lord… -Jeremiah 30:17

It is the wholeness of living things, the dynamic energy moving from sun to plant to animal, a ceaseless flow that in the long scheme of things is far more important than mineral deposits to our future existence.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

If we had been seeking strength through control over ourselves and others, we discover that was only a false version of strength, that truth and inherent strength appear in moments of deep silence and wholeness when we rest unshakably with things as they are. If we had been seeking beauty or love through others or in states that perfect our mind, this too comes whole and unbidden when desires and longings themselves come to rest. This is awakening to our Buddha nature.

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

I am in the earth and the earth is in me

A perfect garden, no matter its size, should enclose nothing less than the entire Universe.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.

Nada significamos como individuos. Nada como unidad. Formamos parte de un todo indivisible y eterno.

There was no such thing as emptiness in the world. Even in the sky there were no vacant places. Everywhere there was life, visible and invisible, and every object possessed something that would be good for us to have also—even to the very stones.

How can you be alone if you are everything? And yet, because you are everything, you are totally alone.

to create "a world that works for everyone, with no one and nothing left out.

Walk confidently in the fact that our all-sufficient God did not make you insufficient or broken.

If we are going to be true to ourselves, we'd better make sure we are being true to our most surrendered, healed, and healthy selves, the ones God made us to be.

When I don't have peace physically, I don't have peace spiritually. I can't separate the two. Nor should I.

Being full of God's love settles, empowers, and brings out the best of who we are.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

Everyone is in a process of spiritual formation. We are being shaped into either the wholeness of the image of Christ or a horribly destructive caricature of that image--destructive not only to ourselves but also to others, for we inflict our brokenness upon them . . . The direction of our spiritual growth infuses all we do with intimations of either Life or Death.