Quotes About Wholeness

Want,' she told her, in a measured tone, 'is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely. Maybe you have a lack problem rather than a want problem. Maybe there is a life that you really want to live.

She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.

The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale. She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.

Hither and thither spinsThe windborne, mirroring soul;A thousand glimpses wins,And never sees a whole.

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.

The Church has a vision of wholeness and holiness for the human person, and everything the Church does should help her members to become more perfectly who God created them to be.

We need friends who help to make us whole, not friends who add to our dividedness.

The 'healthy' man is not so much the one who has eliminated his contradictions as the one who makes use of them and drags them into his vital labors.

In a soap bubble as in an organism, what happens at each point is determined by what happens at all the others.

Objects form a system in which one object cannot appear without concealing others.

Individually there were things we lacked, but together we were perfect.

When all is well in your end, it is not enough! All must be well in every end!

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

in the work of R. D. Laing, who questioned the social construction of mental illness: "Setting the sick apart sustains the fantasy that we are whole." The

It's a dangerous thing, to divide yourself, to break off bits of yourself until there's no solid core. We are, after all, just the sum of our total experiences, each one lying beneath us like a brick in the foundation of a house. To be selective, to block out portions, is to destabilize the very ground on which you stand.

life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing; it's about learning to live with the missing parts.

state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

When seen with imagination, all things shift toward meaning, releasing energies that are hidden within appearances, releasing the inner wings of spirit, opening wide the doors to healing and wholeness.

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving, and whole.

to see a thing completely is to set it in relation with the universe.

Anything anyone can point to in nature is composed of small patterns and is a part of larger ones.

The two that are one, the one that is all!