Quotes About Wholeness

I try not to think of my life in terms of separation.

I don't believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.

I believe you have to have balance in your life.

Connie posed no kind of threat to somebody as well rounded as Jessica. Connie had no notion of wholeness—was all depth and no breadth. When she was coloring, she got lost in saturating one or two areas with a felt-tip pen, leaving the rest blank and ignoring Patty's cheerful urgings to try some other colors.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty

You are everywhere partial and entire. You are on the inside of everything and on the outside.

Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost.

I ask T to tell me what to write about, she says, Saturation, and I think of that feeling when you're really full, or life is full and you can't think of anything else that could fit in it, but then even more sky comes and more days and there is so much to remember and swallow.

Our first wealth is health

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to become much more than what we are.

The making and doing of the image must persist, until the aesthetic ecstasy that demonstrates and proves the finality and wholeness of the image is fully and unambiguously evident.

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

Perfection itself is imperfection.

My head is perfectly clean inside.

I'm perfectly healthy.

I think the universe works perfectly.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.