Quotes About Wholeness

If we are lucky enough as children to be surrounded by grown-ups who love us, then our sense of wholeness is not just the sense of completeness in ourselves but also is the sense of belonging to others and to our place; it is an unconscious awareness of community, of having in common. It may be that this double sense of singular integrity and of communal belonging is our personal standard of health for as long as we live…we seem to know instinctively that health is not divided.

True love is a peculiar kind of insight through which we see the wholeness which the person is - at the same time totally accepting the level on which he now expressed himself - without any delusion that the potential is a present reality. True love accepts the person who now is without qualifications, but with a sincere and unwavering commitment to help him achieve his goals of self-unfoldment- which we may see better than he does. - Eric Butterworth

Healing is an act of communion

When we are able to accept that giving ourselves over to love completely restores the soul, we are made perfect in love.

There is no ultimate satisfaction in the cultivation of one element of human nature at the expense of all the others, nor in viewing all the world as raw material for the magnificence of one's own ego.

We were created to be full. When we're not filled with the good things Christ came to bring us, we will grasp at anything as a substitute. An unsatisfied soul is an accident waiting to happen.

Wholeness will only come when we give ourselves wholly to God and let Him fill every empty place in our lives.

A person cannot be whole in a relationship where he or she feels powerless to make healthy choices.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

All beings are one. If I hurt you, I hurt myself.

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole—like the world, or the person you loved.

And we need to pray for our adult children to have an understanding of—and a desire for—the presence of the Holy Spirit so they can find all the freedom and liberty, deliverance and restoration, transformation and wholeness God has for them.

Freedom, wholeness, and true success can only be found when you are living a praying life. That means walking so close to God that He can keep you away from danger and guide you where you need to go

Por cualquiera que sea la razón, el peso de la culpa se cierne sobre nosotros aplastándonos con fuerza demoledora, y a menos que sea eliminado, nos separa de la plenitud de la vida.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

Staying Free of Destructive Relationships

Lord, I know my only hope for deliverance and restoration in my life is found in You. You have saved me for eternity and for Your glory, and nothing is impossible with You. I pray You will not give up on me until I am completely set free and restored to total wholeness, and my righteousness shines forth like the morning sun.

A spiritual pilgrim needs to discern when his or her life is stunted in an old field and find the courage and determination to go to a new land that the Lord will show. (Abraham-Journey) ...so that you can find the wholeness you seek.

One thing that became clear to me is that images of a divine mother are surprisingly important in the psychological wholeness of women, especially in the process of women taking up residence in their own authority.

Not setting the 'proper and accepted' religious example for them conjured up images of the bad mother, the worst mother. Yet wouldn't the example of a mother being true to her journey, taking a stand against patriarchy, and questing for spiritual meaning and wholeness, even when it meant exiting circles of orthodoxy, be a worthwhile example?

I think of the dictum that when one person in a relationship starts to become conscious, the other is compelled to become conscious, too. Awakening precipitates awakening, and sometimes a woman's dogged groping for enlightenment and wholeness will ignite the process in her mate (or vice versa).

The echo of one of God's deepest truths: delight can emerge from and exist along with our scars.