Quotes About Wholeness

The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.

In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement.

The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.

Because it's in the nature of a gift, the offering and the reception, to create relationship and to overcome that which divides, one can't remain in the way of the gift and also definitively disassociate. When a gift occurs, we see ourselves in others, our very lives sustained by the grace of others, and we find we can hardly hold ourselves apart. The gift occasions communion, that wholeness for which we're all longing in one way or another most of the time.

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.

Before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves, for no one can give up what he or she does not first possess.

Spare me perfection. Give me instead the wholeness that comes from embracing the full reality of who I am, just as I am. Paradoxically, it is this whole self that is most perfect. As it turns out, wholeness, not perfection, is the route to the actualization of our deepest humanity.

For the sum of everything was a circle, and the circle was labelled Zero

Jung states: Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is: "Formation; Transformation, Eternal Mind's eternal recreation." 64 And that is the Self, the wholeness of the personality, which if all goes well is harmonious.65

To kill the heart does not mean to let it dry and wither away, but it means that it has become undivided and gathered

To kill the heart does not mean to let it dry and wither away, but it means that it has become undivided and gathered into one.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here. They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.

Antony wanted to be whole and to experience more progress in his desire for God. The angelic vision corrected his desire for something "better" than what he was doing. It reassured him to continue his pattern of constant integration of work and prayer, mundane as it was.

Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.

The glory of God is the human person fully alive.

I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.

Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God.

We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.