Quotes About Holistic

He realized that body and mind formed one reality which could not be separated. The peace and comfort of the body were directly related to the peace and comfort of the mind. To abuse the body was to abuse the mind.

He saw the oneness of body and mind, that each and every cell of the body contained all the wisdom of the universe.

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.

Nothing can exist by itself alone. It has to depend on every other thing. That is called inter-being. [...] There is no being; there is only inter-being.

The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.

Nothing exists by itself alone. We all belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces.

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

The Buddha has taught that body and mind are one. In order to go far on your monastic path, you need to know how to take care of your body.

It's amazing how much people talk about colonics here. That's not a thing anywhere else in the country. But I totally did a juice cleanse, I did a colonic - I'm getting into L.A. living!

I do love doing action, but if I can balance the scale by doing other kinds of films that satisfy my creative ambitions, that feels really important.

Nature knows best.

Embracing value stream thinking is a mark of an organization that has successfully shifted from siloed thinking (what's best for me and my team?) to holistic thinking (what's best for the customer and the company?)

The inclination to jump into the weeds and design micro-level improvements before the entire work system - the macro picture- is fully understood, is a key contributor to suboptimization.

Suboptimization occurs when you make an improvement to one component of a system while ignoring the effects of that change on the other components. A seemingly important improvement could cause the overall work system to perform more poorly.

To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender is that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meaning built into it. It's an amalgamation of bodies, identities, and life experiences, subconscious urges, sensations, and behaviors, some of which develop organically, and others which are shaped by language and culture. Instead of saying that gender is any one single thing, let's start describing it as a holistic experience.

Rather than presiding at the pinnacle of nature's pyramid, however, humanity is woven deep into nature's web. We are embedded in the living world, not separate from or above it: we live within the biosphere, not on the planet.

Systems thinking is "contextual," which is the opposite of analytical thinking. Analysis means taking something apart in order to understand it; systems thinking means putting it into the context of a larger whole.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

All healing journeys begin and end in the body.