Quotes About Fragmentation

Our century is so shallow, its desires scattered so widely, our knowledge so encyclopedic, that we are absolutely unable to focus our designs on any single object and hence, willy-nilly, we fragment all our works into trivia and charming toys. We have the marvellous gift of making everything insignificant.

Sanki cinler periler dünyay? binlerce parçaya ay?rm??lar, sonra da bu parçalar? anlams?zca, geli?igüzel bir araya getirmi?ler.

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

They are looking for the smooth remains of bottles, shiny coins of broken glass worn smooth by the sea. This is what happens when things break. The pieces separate, scatter. They are battered by the elements, buffed and polished smooth, then deposited on far-off beaches. All your hopes and dreams.

From some vantage points, the global church seems to be getting more fragmented, like the description of the people of Israel in the age of the Judges, when "everyone did as they saw fit" (Judg 21:25).

What threw us together, scare-scatters, a worldstone, sun-distant, hums.

I lay awake for the balance of the night letting my dream shatter into indecipherable pieces the way dreams do.

Physicians and mental health workers today don't speak of retrieving souls, but they are faced with a similar task—restoring wholeness to an organism that has been fragmented by trauma. Shamanistic concepts and procedures treat trauma by uniting lost soul and body in the presence of community. This approach is alien to the technological mind. However, these procedures do seem to succeed where conventional Western approaches fail.