Quotes About Integration

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected." Connecting the dots of our lives, especially the ones we'd rather erase or skip over, requires equal parts self-love and curiosity: How do all of these experiences come together to make up who I am?

The irony is that we attempt to disown our difficult stories to appear more whole or more acceptable, but our wholeness—even our wholeheartedness—actually depends on the integration of all of our experiences, including the falls.

For experiences and information to be integrated into our lives as true awareness, they have to be received with open hands, inquisitive minds, and wondering hearts.

Creativity embeds knowledge so that it can become practice. We move what we're learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands. We are born makers, and creativity is the ultimate act of integration—it is how we fold our experiences into our being.

We move what we're learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands.

Writer William Plomer described creativity as 'the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

The ultimate goal in receiving feedback: a skillful blend of listening, integrating feedback, and reflecting it back with accountability.

Without understanding how our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors work together, it's almost impossible to find our way back to ourselves and each other. When we don't understand how our emotions shape our thoughts and decisions, we become disembodied from our own experiences and disconnected from each other.

Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle." What we understand and learn about rising strong is only rumor until we live it and integrate it through

We can't be "all in" if only parts of us show up. If we're not living, loving, parenting, or leading with our whole, integrated hearts, we're doing it halfheartedly.

We identified four key learnings during our rumble. First, as a leadership team, we need a shared understanding of all the moving pieces so no single person is the connective tissue.

Being all light is as dangerous as being all dark, simply because denial of emotion is what feeds the dark.

Plomer wrote, "Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

familiar grief—a grief we've come to know and understand and even integrate into our lives—can surprise us again and again, often in the form of anguish. This is especially true when something sparks shock and incredulity in us, like the letter that Carmen's mother had written to her.

If integrate means "to make whole," then its opposite is to fracture, disown, disjoin, detach, unravel, or separate.

Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can't take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.

When we separate our artistic activity from daily life, we cut ourselves off from our most valuable creative resource. However, if we live life as an art form in itself, we have available to us all that we experience and see.

The question is not whether but how Buddhism will change as it enters further into Western societies.

Difficult as it may be, I think it is not impossible for the same person to be a scrupulous scholar and dedicated practitioner of Zen, and to let these two disciplines fruitfully supplement and constructively critique each other.

Perché tutti quelli che vengono in africa devono sempre giustificarsi? .. Persino chi è nato qui dice di essere solo in visita

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

The main question is "Do you own your pain?" As long as you do not own your pain—that is, integrate your pain into your way of being in the world—the danger exists that you will use the other to seek healing for yourself. When you speak to others about your pain without fully owning it, you expect something from them that they cannot give. As a result, you will feel frustrated, and those you wanted to help will feel confused, disappointed, or even further burdened.

There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.

Where does my complete flowering as a human being connect with the needs of the world?