Quotes About Wholeness

in coat, heart, body, and brain;

any human thing supposed to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

Slaves hung on determinedly to their selves, to their love of family, their wholeness. A shoemaker on the South Carolina Sea Islands expressed in his own way: I'se lost an arm, but it hasn't gone out of my brains.

I like doing everything fully, getting the most out of everything one does. I think that's the way to live.

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

If you are at one with your body, then you are at one with yourself.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

Now that I'm a pez and a LEGO I don't really want for any more.

For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

There is power in nature,' Ilgast replied, 'and what is often forgotten is that nature lies within us as much as it does out there, amidst high grasses or shoreline. To heal is to draw across the divide; that and nothing more.

When there is only one thing, what can be added or subtracted? If there are no circles, can pi find an ideal existence? What is logically possible when there is no contrary?

It was not Gilda and a racquet being used reflexively to some purpose. It was not Gilda using a racquet. It was one thing, maybe you could call it a Gilda-racquet-court-net-game-situation-two-other-players-wind-sunshine object. But there was only one thing there. To seperate us out would be to miss the reality.

perfect in itself, somehow connected with every other fragment, so that the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.

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.

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." Stewart O'Nan

He was aware only of a serpent biting its own tail; a circle completed.

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

We invite you, in reading this book, to cast away your preconceptions and enter, with us, a magical world where all things are connected to you, and you are connected to all things.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

No human quality belongs to only one class of person. We all get to be both aggressive and loving. We all get to delight in our careers and revel in our children. We're all kind and brave, soft and hard, sciency and artsy, interested in being looked at and in admiring others' physical form. Everything.