Quotes About Integration

The Problem-Solving Power of Integrative Thinking The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.1 —F. Scott Fitzgerald

Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

It takes a strong self—that is, a strong sense of personal identity—to relate fully to nature without being swallowed up.

conscious anxiety is more painful but it is available also to use in the service of integration of the self.

This book is not a substitute for psychotherapy. Nor is it a self-help book in the sense that it promises cheap and easy cures overnight. But in another worthy and profound sense every good book is a self-help book—it helps the reader, through seeing himself and his own experiences reflected in the book, to gain new light on his own problems of personal integration.

Quand on a deux corps, il vient des moments où l'on est à moitié.

Quand on a deux corps, il vient des moments où l'on est à moitié.

Give an intellectual any ideal and any evil passion and he will always succeed in harmonizing the twain.

Une fille sans nattes est comme une ville sans ponts.

Guardini recognized that the liturgy is the true, living environment for the Bible and that the Bible can be properly understood only in this living context within which it first emerged.

Nations are not easily forged since many identities have to be coalesced.

If large numbers of Hindus converted then the majority of Muslims were indigenous Hindus and cannot be regarded as alien.

We know from many examples all over the world and from many periods of history that it was perfectly feasible for people of different racial origins, brought together through migration, trade, conquest or persecution, to find themselves ultimately using the same language.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

The Bible is no different. The goal isn't to repeat or recite the Bible. The Bible has to live through the music I am making with my life.

The interpretation of a specific passage must not contradict the total teaching of Scripture on a point. Individual verses do not exist as isolated fragments, but as parts of a whole. To interpret them properly, we must understand their relationship to the whole and to each other. Scripture interprets Scripture.

This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.

In his book The Soul of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes about always feeling "his twoness-- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; to warring ideals in one dark body.

The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian.

Even when there was segregation there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

I will always be made of things, and things will always be made of me. Nothing can get rid of me because I am already included into the pattern.

jiggered-together adaptations.

Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?