Quotes About Wholeness

I wanted it to suggest how important it is to take the broken, painful, and discarded fragments of our lives and piece them into something whole. There can be healing, and power, too, in giving expression to what's inside of us, in having our voices heard and our pain witnessed. As writer Isak Dinesen put it, "All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them.

Plus, there were the children to consider. They were, for me, the biggest concern of all...But what if I challenged the institution? 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 the circles of orthodoxy, be a worthwhile example?

ecological self"—a term author Joanna Macy uses to describe one who has conquered the personal ego and knows that she or he is not separate from anything else.

La percepción del mundo comienza como una sinécdoque — ver la parte por el todo. La estructura del verdadero aprendizaje consiste en hallar totalidades cada vez más verdaderas, s[in] perder la percepción concreta de las partes.)

The World feels Complete and Whole, and I, its Child, fit into it seamlessly. Nowhere is there any disjuncture where I ought to remember something but do not, where I ought to understand something but do not.

The World feels complete and whole, and I, its Child, fit into it seamlessly.

Our books should be missing something, the finding of which makes us whole.

The key to a successful life is balance. Take care of your physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally important to Him.

By the light of your stars, heal me.

Circles are absolutely vital.

Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.

When carving stone, the sculptor removes everything that is not the statue. […] The art of revealing beauty lies in removing what conceals it. So, too, Patanjali [in the Yoga Sutras] tells us that wholeness exists within us. Our work is to chisel away at everything that is not essence, not Self.

Abiding Practice can remind us that there is nothing we need for wholeness that does not already exist within us.

MANTRAS FOR DAILY LIVING ?I am my own authority. ?My life is a work in progress. ?I desire wholeness.

When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than ourselves.

He was discovering that may be there was more him than his name. And may be, when all was said and done, he'd still be whole.

Y no es porque siempre quisieras más, sino porque siempre lo querías todo.

It's really important to me that the songs not only stand out individually but work as a full body of work, too.

Divine organization is inherent in all things.

I want a man, but I want a man that also wants to embrace his inner child.

Art and life are inseparable.

Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don't know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it's so great; it's just God's greatest gift to us.

I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.