Quotes About Wholeness

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be

As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.

Over time, we transform a collection of parts into a comprehension of wholes.

This is expansion: to stand as One with all.

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way.

Each existence depends on something else... there are no separate individual existences. There are just many names for one existence.

When everything exists within your big mind, all dualistic relationships drop away. There is no distinction between heaven and earth, man and woman, teacher and disciple. Sometimes a man bows to a woman; sometimes a woman bows to a man. Sometimes the disciple bows to the master; sometimes the master bows to the disciple... In your big mind, everything has the same value.

We have been taught that there is no gap between nighttime and daytime, no gap between you and I. This means oneness. But we do not emphasize even oneness. If it is one, there is no need to emphasize one. Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (pp. 108-109). Shambhala. Kindle Edition.

We say "inner world" or "outer world," but actually there is just one whole world.

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.