Quotes About Wholeness

Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.

How do I integrate spirituality into my everyday life? Throw out the concept of "spiritual life" and "everyday life." There is only life, undivided and whole.

Life is about fulfillment. If your life isn't fulfilled, your stomach can never supply what's missing.

To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.

For life is only life when blessed with health.

If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

Life isn't divided into genres

I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a "whole," or the totality that was "me."

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." ~ Rumi

What happened was private. I was in it with Rose. She had hurt me grievously and now I was forever attached. I was in it now with all the women in the world. I walked home glad. I will die, I thought with a bounce in my step. I'm whole. Not whole like anyone else, but whole like me. Painful, but simple. It was very simple now.

Undivided singleness of mind" is what the Gita means by yoga. It is the complete opposite of the incessant civil warfare among intellect, senses, emotions, and instincts which is our usual state of mind. Yoga is the complete reintegration of all these fragments on every level of the personality. It is the process of becoming whole.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.

Psychotherapy in its broadest sense is a collection of paths toward wisdom and wholeness.

The pursuit of wholeness is really a kind of circling closer and closer through different meanings, different voices. One never arrives, yet gets a better and better idea of that which is at the center.

When you've finished with a book, it's as if your innermost self has been ransacked, and all you want is to regain distance, return to being whole.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

To Jung, the purpose of life was to realize one's own potential, to follow one's own perception of the truth, and to become a whole person in one's own right. This was the goal of individuation, as he later called it. If he was to keep faith with himself, he had to go his own way: it would have been impossible for him to spend his life playing second fiddle in a two-man band.

Those who toe the party line do not choose their own way but submerge their potential for wholeness in a relatively unconscious existence of collective conformity.

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of 'adaptation through maladaptation' which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

The hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.