Fragmentation Quotes

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Moving, Roots, Healthy

Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.277, ReadHowYouWant.com

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We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

Earl Warren

Diversity, Gains, Bitter

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The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

Mark Sheppard

Peace, Opposites, Simplicity

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You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

Reason, Ownership

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Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

Deepak Chopra

Unity, Enlightenment, Fields

Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.42, Amber-Allen Publishing

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In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.

Al Gore

Time, Creativity, Creative

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Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

Robert Payne

Civilization, Decline

Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world

Amby Burfoot

Running, World, Digital

Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.24, Rodale

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The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

Mean, Thinking, Errors

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In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both organismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a "hunger for wholeness". Organismic biology, Gestalt psychology, ecology, and, later on, general systems theory all grew out of this holistic zeitgeist.

Fritjof Capra

Psychology, Intellectual, Culture

"The Web of Life". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1996.

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Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

Marshall McLuhan

Stress, Mean, Technology

Marshall McLuhan, Michel Moos (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.124, Routledge

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We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.

Gabrielle Roth

Healing, Knowing, Feelings

Gabrielle Roth (2011). “Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement”, p.206, New World Library

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When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos

Robert Graves

Hands, Naked, Royal

Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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With stillness comes the benediction of peace”.
“Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

Eckhart Tolle

Real, Thinking, Events

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Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Arthur Erickson

Advocating, University, Courses

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What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.

Georges Bataille

Needs, Horizon, Limits

"On Nietzsche". Book by Georges Bataille, p. xxvi, 1945.

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It is therefore absurd to approach the subject of health piecemeal with a departmentalized band of specialists. A medical doctor uninterested in nutrition, in agriculture, in the wholesomeness of mind and spirit is as absurd as a farmer who is uninterested in health. Our fragmentation of this subject cannot be our cure, because it is our disease. The body cannot be whole alone. Persons cannot be whole alone. It is wrong to think that bodily health is compatible with spiritual confusion or cultural disorder, or with polluted air and water or impoverished soil.

Wendell Berry

Spiritual, Thinking, Air

Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.99, Counterpoint

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On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.

Anthony Loyd

Depression, Desire, Despair

Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.

Dan Millman

Goal, Effort, Focus

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Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

John Green

Love, Real, Water

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When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast
expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result.
There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social
programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty,
drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

Maggie Gallagher

Marriage, Pregnancy, School

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An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Ocean, Political, Elements

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If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

Adnan Pachachi

Trust, Country, War

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Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

danah boyd

Space, Giving, Natural

"The era of Facebook is an anomaly". Interview with Ellis Hamburger, www.theverge.com. March 13, 2014.

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When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues

Larry Dossey

Oneness, Focus, Healthy

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