Quotes About Integration

Emotions are the nexxus between matter and mind, going back and forth between the two and influencing both.

Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely physicians treat the body with no regard to the mind or the emotions. But the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one without the other.

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.

For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed.

The shadow can be realized only through a relation to a partner, and anima and animus only through a relation to a partner of the opposite sex, because only in such a relation do their projections become operative.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

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.

The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness. This problem is exceedingly difficult, because it not only challenges the whole man, but reminds him at the same time of his helplessness and ineffectuality.

There is no difference in principle between organic and psychic growth. As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don't like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.

Among the so-called neurotics of our day there are a good many who in other ages would not have been neurotic - that is, divided against themselves. If they had lived in a period and in a milieu in which man was still linked by myth with the world of the ancestors, and thus with nature truly experienced and not merely seen from the outside, they would have been spared this division with themselves.

Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: "We have to lose our minds and come to our senses.

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

In London, Jean Monnet – who had by now risen to be head of the Anglo-French Coordination Committee, launched a daring, last-minute emergency plan: he wanted France and Great Britain to become one. A joint pool of shipping space had already been set up, just as in the First World War, but this time Monnet wanted to go much further. In a memorandum of less than five pages he proposed that the two countries become united: their armies, their

Vocation is far more than work-life integration, bridging the chasm between personal and professional; it is the integration of heaven and earth, God's work and our work, family and faith, daily life and divine power, culture and the Christian life. Vocation reveals the spirituality of everyday life.

we're hearing more lately: something called "DevOps." Maybe everyone attending this party is a form of DevOps, but I suspect it's something much more than that. It's Product Management, Development, IT Operations, and even Information Security all working together and supporting one another.

There should be absolutely no way that the Dev and QA environments don't match the production environment.

In ten years, I'm certain every COO worth their salt will have come from IT. Any COO who doesn't intimately understand the IT systems that actually run the business is just an empty suit, relying on someone else to do their job.

A firm-wide, shared source code repository is one of the most powerful mechanisms used to integrate local discoveries across the entire organization.