Quotes About Totality

the true choice is between losing it all and creating what we are about to lose: only this could eventually save us, in a profound sense . . . The possible awakening of the bomb is not simply 'let's do all in our power to prevent it before it's too late', but rather 'let's first build this totality (unity, community, freedom) that we are about to lose through the bomb.

Don't make it new; make it whole.

If less is more, maybe nothing is everything.

Para ser grande, sé entero: nada tuyo exageres o excluyas. Sé todo en cada cosa. Pon cuanto eres en lo mínimo que hagas. En cada lago así la luna entera brilla, porque alta vive.

His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does.

What if Christ is another name for everything—in its fullness?

God wants your life — all of it. Ninety-five percent is not enough.

El Espíritu no es un estadio particular ni una ideología concreta ni tampoco un dios o una diosa preferidos sino la totalidad del proceso de desarrollo, un proceso infinito que, aunque se halla completamente presente en cada uno de los estadios finitos, deviene cada vez más accesible en cada nueva apertura evolutiva.

Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

The neurons in the gut are so innumerable that scientist are now calling the totality of them "the second brain"... In fact, recent research is revaling that our second brain may not be second at all. It can act independently from the main brain and control many functions without the brain's input or help.

Authority," argues Molnar, "is the guarantee that man is not totally subordinated to authority," or, better, to a single overreaching authority that would extinguish all others.

For where thou art, there is the world itself.

El dominio absoluto de toda la realidad

is no great with Thee, there is no small,      For Thou art all, and fillest all in all.

When you've nothing, at least you've all of it.

Though Here's so total.

El adjudicarle el término de amor a un fenómeno tan total era caer en una simpleza, en una inaudita superficialidad.

The sum of the day was truly greater than its parts.

Because I don't do things in halves, Mom. Especially when it comes to love.

The universe is so constructed as to be able to see itself," Spencer Brown once noted. The emergence of the neurosomatic, neurogenetic and metaprogramming circuits is the universe's way of "seeing itself" ever more clearly and totally, to decide where it is going.

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.