Quotes About Wholeness

Fitness means you "fit" into the life that you desire.

A divided mind cannot conquer a united soul.

We are already abundant, we have everything we need within us, to live a purposeful and fulfilling life.

If you have this extraordinary thing going in your life, then it is everything; then you become the teacher, the disciple, the neighbour, the beauty of the cloud - you are all that, and that is love.

This Shanghai was not a place but a feeling of contentment. I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride

When what you have is more than enough, you're on the edge of impeccability.

Passion gives me moments of wholeness

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

I have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I see it as a disease, a proliferation as dangerous as cancer. My first concept about people around me was that all of them were coordinated into a WHOLE, whereas I was made up of a multitude of selves, of fragments.

Perhaps we have built a false concept of wholeness and, under the pressure of an artificial unity, people like June explode and fly in all directions. Some day we may be reassembled into a more truthful whole.

She cannot be considered as a whole. She is composed of fragments. Only passion gives her a moment of wholeness.

You are an "homme complet" That is why he is so intolerant of neurotic art and artists.

Enter this laboratory of the soul where incidents are refracted into a diary, dissected to prove that every one of us carries a deforming mirror where he sees himself too small or too large, too fat or too thin… Once the deforming mirror is smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness; there is a possibility of joy. —Diary 1, pg. 105

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.

There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.

I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

would, by whatever means, make the multitudes of His dear children who are still living divided lives

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

It was just perfect, just right all at once.

Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn't know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.