Quotes About Wholeness

We were one thing. Whole.

The whole of everything I want in this world is right here, under my hand.

Yet when one of you is near, I feel you are woven of the same strand as I, that we are but extensions of a segmented life, and that together we complete one another. I feel a joy in your presence, because I feel my own life wax greater when we are close to one another.

replenish the connection that you have never truly lost with Earth.

Weep! Weep!" calls a toad from the water's edge. And I do. If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.

The marvel of a basket is in its transformation, its journey from wholeness as a living plant to fragmented strands and back to wholeness again as a basket. A basket knows the dual powers of destruction and creation that shape the world. Strands once separated are rewoven into a new whole. The journey of a basket is also the journey of a people.

If grief can be a door way to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again

Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it—grieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.

a way that contributes to the good of the whole.

with a bond physical, emotional, and spiritual.

alone." Native scholar Greg Cajete has written that in indigenous ways of knowing, we understand a thing only when we understand it with all four aspects of our being: mind, body, emotion, and spirit. I

...[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe....

The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

Kira, your leg will take a great deal out of me. I'll have to sleep, after, maybe for a whole day or even longer. And I don't have much time. She looked at him quizzically. Time for what? I'll explain. But for now, I think we should start. If I do it right away, I can sleep completely through the night and almost all of the morning. You can use that time to become accustomed to being whole... I [i]am[/i] whole, she said defiantly.

My work will be finished when I have helped the community to change and become whole.

You connect everything you can think of with everything else you can think of until there is no "anything" left.

Everything in Heaven and Earth is connected to everything in Heaven and Earth.

Everything about you suits everything in me.

All we'll ever need is within each other, Serena said, her voice barely more than a whisper. Even when we have our child, it will only be an image of what we already are.

Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda. Es una casi nada que lo es todo.

With journaling, you see the patterns of your life; you claim—or reclaim—who you really are; you coach yourself into becoming the someone you imagined; you arrive at a sense of balance, of yourself, of wholeness. You can discover productive patterns and nonproductive patterns in your life, and you can choose to embrace the ones that move you forward.

Only the body saves the soul.

Es totalmente arbitrario considerar como una totalidad, como un todo, la suma de lo que experimentamos de una cosa por medio de la mera percepción, y considerar como algo añadido, sin relación alguna con esa misma cosa, aquello que resulta de la contemplación pensante.

Al vivir, el hombre siente que es todas las personas y todas las cosas, así que no puede anhelar nada puesto tiene todo lo que es posibe tener, y al sentirse todo, no puede hacer daño a nadie ni a nada pues nadie hace daño a uno mismo