Quotes About Totality

One included all, and all were contained in one.

Time in itself does not exist, there is only the totality of the results issuing from all the cosmic phenomena present in a given place.

In the end we are collected works.

Each rune is a complete representation of wyrd. Just as one drop of water reflects a perfect image of all that is around it, so each rune reflects the totality of wyrd. The rhythm of wyrd may be observed at all levels, whether it be the movement of the stars across the sky or the cutting of shapes into a patch of earth.

Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.

Too much concentration belittles life. Concentration is a narrowing down of the mind - but we are concerned with the total process of living, and to concentrate exclusively on any particular aspect of life, belittles life.

any human thing supposed to be complete must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.

I made 'True Detective' like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.

When there is only one thing, what can be added or subtracted? If there are no circles, can pi find an ideal existence? What is logically possible when there is no contrary?

perfect in itself, somehow connected with every other fragment, so that the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.

True love begins when you accept yourself in your totality. Then, and only then, can you completely love another.

When you complete yourself is when you can complete someone else.

2) You must grasp the unity of the whole work.

Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled to the brim.

the whole, that I prefer

What the poet beholds in his Vulcan's pit is in truth the "Spirit" as ever it was, namely the totality of primary forms from which the archetypal images come. In this world of the collective unconscious spirit appears as an archetype which is endowed with supreme significance and is expressed through the figure of the divine hero, whose counterpart in the West is Christ.

The goal of contemplating the processes depicted in the mandala is that the yogi shall become inwardly aware of the deity. Through contemplation, he recognizes himself as God again, and thus returns from the illusion of individual existence into the universal totality of the divine state.

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

Revelation, then, is the totality of the historical event of Jesus Christ plus the apostolic interpretation of the divine meaning of the event — the apostolic interpretation being itself a part of the event.

Work of each individual contributes to a totality and so becomes undying part of a totality. That totality is human life. Past and present and to come forms a tapestry that has been in existence now for many tens and thousands of years. And has been growing more elaborate, and on the whole more beautiful.

It's the whole, not the detail, that matters.

Only when you fail to express, have you experienced in totality. You become one with it!

Corporate totalitarianism, for me, is interchangeable with inverted totalitarianism, as Wolin uses that term throughout his book.