Quotes About Integration

We should remember that by being well integrated with any matter or thing, we will naturally come to be liberated from our attachment to them.

The meaning of the expression "with the Heavenly Principle as the master" is just the opposite. It means that we should abandon our self-centered wills, be free from personal opinions, be absorbed both physically and spiritually in whatever concerns us at the moment, and become completely one with things.

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

I am not interested in a spirituality that cannot encompass my humanness.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.

Web Accessibility simply means that the web is to be made accessible to everyone. And that includes people with special abilities too – an aspect generally overlooked in haste.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

We are half mechanical [physical] and half mysterious [spiritual]; to live in either domain and ignore the other is to be fools or fanatics... We have to WORK OUT in the mechanical realm what God WORK IN in the mysterious realm.

There are not three levels of spiritual life--worship, waiting, and work...God's idea is that the three should go together as one.

Cannibalism alone unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.

Before the scientific revolution, [man] did not feel himself isolated by his skin from the world outside to quite the same extent that we do. He was integrated, or mortised into it, each different part of him being united to a different part of it by some invisible thread. In his relation to his environment, the man of the middle ages was rather less like an island, rather more like an embryo.

Like many immigrants, I had always kept my Eastern and Western lives compartmentalized.

When you give yourself wholly to a piece of ground, its goodness enters your bloodstream like an infusion. You will never be alone the same way again, and never quite dislocated. Your heart will grow down into and back out of that ground like a tree.

I don't want to be Jewish, I want to be British," she announces in early December.

Rightly understood, a myth is an effort to tell truths that cannot be told with mere facts or known by the senses and the mind alone, truths that take form only in that integrative place called the heart.

the personal can never be divorced from the professional. "We teach who we are" in times of darkness as well as light. In

Zen Judaism: For You, a Little Enlightenment

How, exactly, do we resolve dilemmas that tempt us to choose either this or that and instead hold the tension long enough to let a "third thing" emerge?

Uncontrolled immigration threatens to deconstruct the nation we grew up in and convert America into a conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common -- not history, heroes, language, culture, faith, or ancestors. Balkanization beckons.

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.