Quotes About Integration

Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored.

Now that she had lived in two worlds, would she ever again be completely at home in either of them? Or would part of her always long for the other, no matter where she was?

However, I truly believe that only when Spirit and Science are reunited will we be afforded the means to create a better world.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

Mix the head with the heart, and you're ahead from the start.

Overconcentration on any one point is distortion.

Maybe you can't have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?

By some chemistry of her own, California was triumphantly blending the races in to a single type.

If we can accomplish the integration of the search without obliterating cultural differences or destroying ourselves, we will have accomplished a great thing.

This looks very much as if the integration of the day's experience into our memory, the forging of new neural links, is either an easier or a more urgent task. As the night wears on and this function is completed, the more affecting dreams, the more bizarre material, the fears and lusts and other powerful emotions of the dream material emerge.

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.

It is the nature of capitalism to confound distinctions, collapse hierarchies and mix the most diverse forms of life promiscuously together.

No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpork. Well technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders found, after a few days, that they didn't own their horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.

Mr Vimes, said Mrs Winkings, ve cannot help but notice that you still haf not employed any of our members in the Vatch... Say 'Watch', why don't you? Vimes thought. I know you can. Let the twenty-third letter of the alphabet enter your life.

I trace my genealogy back to the land. Human and wild, I can see myself whole, not isolated but integrated in time and place. Our genetic makeup is not so different from the collared lizard, the canyon wren now calling, or the great horned owl who watches from the cottonwood near the creek. Mountain lion is as mysterious a creature as any soul I know. Is not the tissue of family always a movement between harmony and distance?

MEDITATION is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentry into society

As you will see, mindfulness practice does not need to be another "add-on." Its beauty lies in the fact that it can be fully and easily integrated into every act of our daily living, reminding us to live the present moment fully.

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.

Just as a flower is made only of non-flower elements, Buddhism is made only of non-Buddhist elements, including Christian ones, and Christianity is made of non-Christian elements, including Buddhist ones.

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

A person is not some private entity traveling unaffected through time and space as if sealed off from the rest of the world by some thick shell.

You cannot take the mind out of the body, and you cannot take the body out of the mind.

Everything depends on everything else. The One contains the many, and the many contains the One