Wholeness Quotes

• Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Perfection, Doe

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Circles, Humanity, Mindfulness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2012). “Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—and Your Life”, p.62, Sounds True

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• Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Cutting, Being Sad

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• You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

  Maya Angelou

  Jobs, Needs, Persons

  "Rob and Kristen Bell on the Best Way to Find Love". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.eharmony.com.

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• Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Happiness, Yoga

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• Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Beauty, Mistake

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• Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

  Plato

  Love Is, Names, Desire

  Plato, C. D. C. Reeve “Plato on Love”, Hackett Publishing

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• The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

  Jack Kornfield

  Freedom, True Nature

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• Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  Life, Artist, Order

  Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu (2010). “Made For Goodness: And why this makes all the difference”, p.48, Random House

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• Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Splits, Whole

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

  Gary Zukav

  Courage, Lying, Moving

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

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• A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

  Eric Butterworth

  Desire, Purpose, Creatures

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  Doe, Cacophony, Our Lives

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• Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Mindfulness, Fragility, Sometimes

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness.

  David Simon

  Memories, Healing, Opportunity

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• You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

  LeCrae

  Broken, Made, Whole

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• The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience...
  Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Pain, Real, Lying

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• Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Healing, Opportunity

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.

  Laozi

  Mindfulness, Flocks, Ifs

  "Tao Teh Ching".

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• To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

  Dogen

  Imperfection, Anxiety, Harmony

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• Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Patterns, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth, wisdom and beauty, as well as energy and imagination. Our highest satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible Life. All human endeavor is an attempt to get back to first principles, to find such an inward wholeness that all sense of fear, doubt and uncertainty vanishes.

  Ernest Holmes

  Essence, Imagination, Creative

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “The Art of Life”, p.9, Penguin

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• On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

  Tara Brach

  Acceptance, Perfection, Sacred

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