Quotes About Wholeness

A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

A painting is more than the sum of the parts," he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.

T)he world is broken up into pieces, and...it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.

When the two become the one And the inside outside, the outside in So that the male be not male nor the female female Then will you see me.

and he sees the unitedness of it all. He does not see single trees and single mountains and single lakes as they do. He sees the trees and the lakes and the mountains as what they really are, integral parts of a total, unitary flow of cosmic events. He

To heal a person, one must first be a person. We are all spiritual beings. Health care is a spiritual discipline. Notes

Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.

Life is spherical now.

My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.

Bread feeds when broken open. Soil grows when broken open. You are not broken. You are the world's nourishment continually being broken open by design.

As cliche as it sounds you complete me and I complete you

Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.

do not analyze or argue it, describe or define it—I am one with it.

When I am healed I am restored to my center in a way that my freedom as a person is not compromised by my loss of functions.

And that was when she realized that laughter, which they had lost, had come back to them, and they were whole again.

He is beautiful, and whole, and has learned to offer the world a humble and desperate obedience. You called him a pawn. He has begun to follow his trade.

The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity, the more massive the unity. Incidentally, this is the weakness of most "edifying" or "propaganda" literature. There is no diversity. The Energy is active only in one part of the whole, and in consequence the wholeness is destroyed and the Power diminished. You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

watch an animal, and be reminded of what total integrity looks like.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.