Quotes About Wholeness

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

Being a part, man cannot grasp the whole. He is at its mercy. He may assent to it, or rebel against it; but he is always caught up by it and enclosed within it. He is dependent upon it and is sustained by it. Love is his light and his darkness, whose end he cannot see. "Love ceases not"—whether he speaks with the "tongues of angels," or with scientific exactitude traces the life of the cell down to its uttermost source.

It seems to be a sin in the eyes of nature to hide our insufficiency—just as much as to live entirely on our inferior side.

Individuation means becoming a single, homogeneous being, and, in so far as 'individuality' embraces our innermost, last, and incomparable uniqueness, it also implies becoming one's own self. We could therefore translate individuation as… 'self-realization.

If I recognize only nat- uralistic values, and explain everything in physical terms, I shall depreciate, hinder, or even destroy the spiritual development of my patients. And if I hold exclusively to a spiritual interpretation, then I shall misunderstand and do violence to the nat- ural man in his right to exist as a physical being.

This choice of symbol, too, is not arbitrary, but is documented by alchemical literature from the first to the eighteenth century. The lapis is produced, as we have already seen, from the splitting and putting together of the four elements, from the rotundum. The rotundum is a highly abstract, transcendent idea, which by reason of its roundness76 and wholeness refers to the Original Man, the Anthropos.

But this one-sided development must inevitably lead to a reaction, since the suppressed inferior functions cannot be indefinitely excluded from participating in our life and development. The time will come when the division in the inner man must be abolished, in order that the undeveloped may be granted an opportunity to live.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.

Connecting us, turning the three of us into one.

The body is not a mindless machine; the body and mind are one.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries.

Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

Bir insan?n, baz? aç?lardan gizemli bir dünyada yaÅŸad???n?, aç?klanamayan baz? ÅŸeylerin olduÄŸunu ve bunlar?n yaÅŸanabildiÄŸini ve olan her ÅŸeyin anla??lamayaca??n? hissetmesi gerekir. Beklenmedik ve inan?lmaz ÅŸeyler vard?r bu dünyada. Ancak o zaman yaÅŸam bir bütün olur.

Lo bueno y lo malo están contenidos lógicamente en la naturaleza y en el fondo sólo son graduales diferencias a una misma cosa.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

Life calls, not for perfection, but for completeness.

Only the wounded physician heals... and then only to the extent he has healed himself.

Where do I feel out of integrity with myself? What is keeping me from feeling complete and whole?

All are but parts of one stupendous whole. —ALEXANDER POPE

Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

Recent scholarship has recognized that such terms as body, soul, and spirit are not different, separable faculties of each individual but different ways of viewing the whole person.

I'm more than the sum of my physical parts.

All knowledge is one