Quotes About Wholeness

Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world. For as the body is only as healthy as its individual cells, the world is only as healthy as its individual souls.

The courage to hear and embody opens us to a startling secret, that the best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle.

Being human, we are constantly broken apart by experience. To reconcile our humanness means we are ever learning how to accept our suffering and to restore our Wholeness.

that the best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle.

Porque no hay poder como el del estado de plenitud de recursos.

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.

Le bonheur est à ceux qui se suffisent à eux-mêmes.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

Der Anfang ist die Hälfte vom Ganzen.

it seems impossible for all things to be one.

Happiness belongs to those who suffice themselves.

The public, not unnaturally, goes upon the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole.

He was familiar enough with pleasure to know it might become jaded or reluctant; but joy was literally foreign to him, a word he would never easily pronounce, an exhilaration that had some other reckless nationality. For this reason, Caro's wholeness in love, her happiness in it, made her exotic.

Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

The whole is not the sum of the parts, and neither is the whole greater than the sum of the parts. The whole is not a thing which acts as some kind of super-part, and neither can it be imposed on the parts. An authentic whole can only be encountered through the way in which it expresses itself through each part.

Your peace won't begin after you heal, but when you agree to heal.

I'm basically a really happy person. My life is nuts, but it feels complete.

At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

The holes in my shoes and the holes in my jeans make me whole!

The human body is much, much more than the sum of its parts, the difference being the human spirit.