Quotes About Wholeness

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

When people ask me who I'd want to have dinner with, dead or alive, I always say, 'John Lennon.' I just feel that he was an artist who was, in his own way, committed to wholeness and authenticity in a not dissimilar way that I am years later.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.

Trying to capture the essence of India is almost like trying to bottle magic, which is hard to do because India is so broad and diverse - it's controlled chaos. But there's spirituality and wholeness to the people.

I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.

Good analysts and therapists can help us to recognize parts of ourselves we have repressed and denied. The shamanic concept of soul loss reaches further. It recognizes that soul healing is also about retrieving pieces of soul that have literally gone missing and need to be located and persuaded to return and take up residence in the body where they belong.

And after it has vanished, peace is found to remain eternal [no divisiveness].

the experience of the undivided reality".

There are no "others": the Self is the one and only reality.

When once you realize your own Self, and that there is nothing other than this Self, you will come to look upon the whole universe as the Self.

The truth of one's own real nature is that it is an undivided oneness:

nothing contains all the ingredients of ongoing existence within itself; nothing is self-sufficient.

Somehow no matter how odd the combinations are, they always end up looking perfect together.

The mystery of building is that many things conspire to stand as one.

We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all the parts of me were finally in one place. All the missing bits that would make me a complete... thing.' I shook my head. 'Words don't read that far.

We are whole