Quotes About Wholeness

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands?

Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y toda, es silencio.

How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered.

Everything is connected to everything else: every rock, every living form, is infused by the same force. To say this is to put the lie to a million false dualities, to all the forced seperations between spirit and mind, soul and body, God and man.

It's a longing, an aching to complete ourselves, to unite with that which makes us whole. We are longing for God the way a soldier longs for his wife faraway. It a relentless homesickness that, however desperately we try, will accept no substitutes.

When we look at waves in the ocean, we see each one as independent in its formation and at the same time inseparable from the whole. The is no such thing as a wave without the ocean. In the same way we are inseparable from each other and are connected to the whole body of life

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

The whole is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the totality is something besides the parts.

A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Ser uno con todo, ésa es la vida de la divinidad, ése es el cielo del hombre. Ser uno con todo lo viviente, volver, en un feliz olvido de sí mismo, al todo de la naturaleza, ésta es la cima de los pensamientos y alegrías, ésta es la sagrada cumbre de la montaña, el lugar del reposo eterno donde el mediodía pierde su calor sofocante y el trueno su voz, y el hirviente mar se asemeja a los trigales ondulantes.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole – there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole…But nothing exists apart from the whole!

Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.

The double role of living systems as parts and wholes requires the interplay of two opposite tendencies: an integrative tendency to function as part of a larger whole, and a self-assertive, or self-organizing tendency to preserve individual autonomy (see Chapter 7).

sex seeks the part; love the totality.

What we feel compelled to do, whether it's making art or giving your life to God, evolves out of the inner fabric of our lives, however disguised the patterns may be to us. The work, the vocation, is an attempt on the part of the would-be artist to fulfill in an inner way, in a symbolic way, what the outer world is failing to provide him with in the service of wholeness.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

To the perfect, if it be perfect, there is nothing that can be added; therefore, the will is not capable of any other desire, when that which is of the perfect is present with it, highest and best.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.