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Quotes About Wholeness

If you have damage from your childhood or from a previous marriage, the Devil will use that as an opportunity to access your scars and try to use them to control you. You must expose him and refuse to let him do this to you.
~ Jimmy Evans
Let me be open to all possibilities, living the full circle of my life in gratitude no matter when that circle is complete.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
We become whole, healed, by making the invisible visible and bringing the darkness to light.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
It takes courage to re-own our lost parts, but authentic spirituality requires that we make the shadow visible and that we make that which is divided whole.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
We have to learn to hear on every level at once if we are really to become whole. The problem is that most of us are deaf in at least one ear. We have to learn to listen to Scripture. And we have to learn to listen to life around us.
~ Joan Chittister
The spiritual life... is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.
~ Joan Chittister
The spiritual life, in other words, is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Feminists are asking women and men not to buy into patriarchal systems that destroy them both. Feminism comes to bring both men and women to the fullness of life, the wholeness of soul, for which we were all made in the image and likeness of God.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole.
~ Joan Halifax
Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.
~ Joan Lindsay
So there are different experiences – every individual has a completely unique experience. But it is all one energy, one whole seeing, one whole being. Unicity is all there is, and unicity does not belong to me or you. We belong to it. It is what "we" are.
~ Joan Tollifson
Only the mirage-like separate fragment, the character in the movie, is concerned about being perfect and not being fooled again. The wholeness of being doesn't mind being fooled. Awareness has no self-image to protect, no self to defend against death. For life itself, there is no end to being fooled and no end to waking up. It is all happening to no one. It's not personal.
~ Joan Tollifson
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.
~ Joanna Macy
The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
~ Joanna Macy
Let me tell you what I want,' he said fiercely. 'For a start, I want you. I told you that, but perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I want the whole package, hang-ups, fears and phobias, as well as the good parts.
~ Joanna Mansell
We're not separated from the world by our own edges." Charlie set down his beer glass, empty now, and rubbed his hand up and down his arm, as an example of one of his edges. "We're part of the sky, and the rocks in your mother's garden, and that old man who sleeps by the train station. We're all interconnected, and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is.
~ Ann Napolitano
His teachings, said his disciple Musaeus, had one simple theme: 'Everything comes into being from the One and is resolved into the One again.
~ Ann Wroe
The presence of want awakens in him nostalgia for wholeness. His thoughts turn toward questions
~ Anne Carson
Our civilization really does not harbour a concept of the whole of life
~ Anne Karpf
Meditation is said to cleanse you, make you peaceful. Peace Faye would welcome, but the cleansing part scares her, as if she might be bleached invisible by the sun, as if some part of her might go whirling down the drain, a part as yet undiscovered, but without which she'll never be whole
~ Anne Whitney Pierce
Healthy people live with their world.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef
Many spiritual disciplines, especially those oriented toward ascendance, advise us to give up the self, to surrender all to a master, guru, or a particular concept of God. While it is important to give up attachments to the lower egos, what is really called for is to become one with the divine. There is no we without an I. To become one with the divine is not to abandon the Self (as archetype of wholeness) but to realize that divine consciousness of who that Self really is.
~ Anodea Judith
Though we have talked about the chakras individually, remember that we are a complete, indivisible system. What affects one part affects the whole. As we change ourselves, so do we change the world.
~ Anodea Judith
I get my protein, I get everything I need, I don't feel like I'm missing on anything.
~ Bradley Wright-Phillips