Quotes About Wholeness

Because we are limited in our knowledge, even the sanest of us are slightly insane. Our limitations are a kind of madness, and we can only choose to deny we are mad, and so descend into a dark spiral of total insanity, or accept we are mad and embark on a quest to regain our true and wholesome sanity

It takes maturity and tenacity on our part to achieve wholeness, and that means persistently dealing with our pain.

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.

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On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don't have a life. You are life.

Jesus points to this when he says, "Be ye whole, even as your Father in Heaven is whole."1 The New Testament's "Be ye perfect" is a mistranslation of the original Greek word, which means whole. This is to say, you don't need to become whole, but be what you already are—with or without the pain-body.

When walking or resting in nature, honor that realm by being there fully. Be still. Look. Listen. See how every animal and every plant is completely itself. Unlike humans, they have not split themselves in two. They do not live through mental images of themselves, so they do not need to be concerned with trying to protect and enhance those images. The deer is itself. The daffodil is itself.

Instead of trying to be a mountain, teaches the ancient Tao Te Ching, "Be the valley of the universe."4 In this way, you are restored to wholeness and so "all things will come to you.

Enlightenment is a state of wholeness, of being "at one" and therefore at peace.

You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life. Life is primary. Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

you are one with all that is.

This is to say, you don't need to become whole, but be what you already are—with or without the pain-body.

Don't just think with your head, think with your whole body.

THE EGO'S SEARCH FOR WHOLENESS Another aspect of the emotional pain that is an intrinsic part of the egoic mind is a deep-seated sense of lack or incompleteness, of not being whole. In some people, this is conscious, in others unconscious. If it is conscious, it manifests as the unsettling and constant feeling of not being worthy or good enough. If it is unconscious, it will only be felt indirectly as an intense craving, wanting and needing.

I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn't exist, That there are hills, valleys, plains, That there are trees, flowers, weeds, That there are rivers and stones, But there is not a whole these belong to, That a real and true wholeness Is a sickness of our ideas.

soul retrievals to recover parts of myself I had lost to trauma,

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Don't make it new; make it whole.

Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

The Multiplicity and the Unity are one and the same thing, a thing that is both many and one at the same time. The waves, and the currents underwater, make up the ocean. The ocean is the underlying basis for every wave. Neither the ocean, nor the waves, can be understood in isolation from each other.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.