Quotes About Wholeness

Monotheism strenuously denies the need to return to a cultural style that periodically places the ego and its values in perspective through contact with a boundary-dissolving immersion in the Archaic mystery of plant-induced, hence mother-associated, psychedelic ecstasy and wholeness, what Joyce called the mama matrix most mysterious.

We are the sum of our lives and not simply pieces of them. We are the whole of our time in this world.

Everything about him: the way he shot an arrow; the way he carved; the way he used a sword; even the way he walked with such fluid reasoned intent—they weren't separate things, separate abilities…they were all the same thing.

It was like finding the other half of myself and being complete, whole, for the first time in my life.

The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.

The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in

Harmony and One-ness with all living beings.

To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality

The one contains the many and the many contains the one. Without the one, there cannot be the many. Without the many, there cannot be the one.

One included all, and all were contained in one.

We are that drop in the ocean of the cosmos which contains within itself the entire cosmos. (p. 12)

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.

For true love to be there, you need to feel complete in yourself, not needing something from outside.

We cannot be by ourselves alone. We can only inter-be with everything else in the cosmos.

The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.

Emptiness means to be full of everything but empty of a separate existence.

We need the vision of interbeing—we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this" is the well-being of "that," so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side"; there is no evil side.

There is no difference between healing ourselves and healing the Earth.

Nothing exists by itself alone. We all belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces.

Our world does not lack people willing to throw themselves into action. What we need are people who are capable of loving, of not taking sides so that they can embrace the whole of reality as a mother hen embraces all her chicks, with two fully spread wings.

Enlightenment is when the wave realizes that it is the ocean.

All things arise because of their interdependence, and that is why nothing has a separate, independent identity.