Quotes About Integration

Eventually everything connects.

Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well. When we do work in the world, internal issues arise that we must face or be rendered ineffective.

If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

We are a part of everything real and natural, and therefore they are a part of us. If we don't fight them, but let them flow through us, they will never bother us, only enrich us. It is such a simple principle that most of us miss it. But by missing it, we miss most of what life is all about.

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

I look up at her. "Let's not make a big deal of this. It's time for me to become a machine.

If you want to make it human, make it whole.

The scholarship of Christian academics isn't recognized as scholarship at all unless it conforms to the prevailing rules of scholarship in the academic disciplines. This forces Christian scholars to accommodate and blend in; even when their work is excellent, it isn't identified as Christian.

We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.

the activities of every day can't be separate from our spiritual evolution—they are our spiritual evolution!

And in this state, we find the key to even greater patterns of healing

The term trans-rational is emblematic of a worldview within which rationality is included and transcended, not repressed or dismissed.

The trans-rational spiritual approach is a simple concept with wide-ranging practical implications. There are three major components involved: (1) not denying rationality, (2) pursuing the experience of a peaceful internal state, and (3) allowing that inner peace to guide behavior.

the attacking players would need to become the best defenders; and the defenders would have to become the first line of attack, moving the ball forward from the back.

We are one. We are not little groups because in all teams this is what ends up killing team spirit.

You get the player, based on what we need, and I will make it work,' has always been his take on signings.

I am a hyphenated person, but I am not falling apart; I am putting together.

The first generation of immigrants commit themselves to a lifetime of labor, not assimilation—that's the job of the children.

Speak Spanish, get accused of separatism. Speak English, get laughed at for thick accents and limited vocabularies. Many Mexicans speak English to Mexican workers out of gratitude—the fast-food counter is the only place Mexicans can feel like Americans by speaking the shared language of haggling with Mexican workers over the cost of fries.

The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal, integration of state and economy, generalised secrecy, unanswerable lies, and eternal present . . . — The Society of the Spectacle

fluent speech, there are no real spaces between words, so when two words frequently appear together they can easily fuse into one.

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

The Brandreth Rule is: when in Rome, do as the Romans do—speak English.

In woman, personal history blends together with the history of all women, as well as national and world history. As a militant, she is an integral part of all liberations.