Wholeness Quotes - Page 11

• Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.

  Eileen Caddy

  Imperfection, Trying, Weakness

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• The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

  Hugh Prather

  Letting Go, Firsts, Steps

  Hugh Prather (2000). “The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul”, p.7, Conari Press

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• [K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Beauty, Beautiful, Stars

  Robinson Jeffers, James Karman, Una Jeffers (2009). “The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers”, p.65, Stanford University Press

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• If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Character, Mind, Revelations

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• The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart. Taken together, these aspects give me a sense of wholeness. I want to be a whole human being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don't know how to use all of my parts. Intellectual, emotional, and physical activity are not separate entities. Rather, they are dimensions of the same human being.

  Robert Fulghum

  Taken, Heart, Exercise

  "Handbook for the Soul". Book edited by Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson, 1995.

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• The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.

  Martin Buber

  Philosophical, Men, Doe

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.148, Routledge

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• The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

  Don DeLillo

  Want, Failing, Said

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.75, Pan Macmillan

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• Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Children, Humanity

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• Life is bliss. It is unbounded, deep within; and it is full of boundaries outside. So we advise the people to turn the attention within, experience that unbounded wholeness of life, and bring the mind out fully saturated with that--start to live unboundedness in the field of boundaries.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  People, Mind, Attention

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• Health is a return to our memory of wholeness.

  David Simon

  Memories, Return, Our Memories

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• Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This feeling of wholeness can be experienced no matter what is wrong with your body. One part of your body, or many parts of your body, may be diseased or in pain or even missing, yet you can still cradle them in this experience of wholeness. - Jon Kabat

  Howard Zinn

  Pain, Inspiration, Reality

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• We must have a spiritual rebirth. We must be born out of the belief in externalities into the belief of inner realities, out of the belief that we are separated from God, into the belief that we are part of a Unitary Wholeness.

  Ernest Holmes

  God, Spiritual, Reality

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• ...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Faithful, Records

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• It is the movement between the negative and positive poles that creates electricity. It is the attraction between the male and the female that creates new life. The dynamics of the universe are dialectical, apparently in a conflict, but occurring within a larger context of unity and wholeness. This is the understanding of the Tantra vision.

  Margot Anand

  Understanding, Unity, Vision

  Margot Anand (1995). “The Art of Sexual Magic”, Tarcher

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• When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Opportunity, Attention, Offers

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

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• The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Power, Broken

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• Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness. Healing, health, whole and holy all mean inclusiveness. Body, mind, spirit, environment, relationships, social interactions are all one wholeness, and you're a part of that one wholeness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Healing, Mean

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• Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychics, Mind, Matter

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• Integrity requires that I discern what is integral to my selfhood, what fits
  and what does not-and that I choose life-giving ways of relating to the forces that converge within me: Do I welcome them or fear them, embrace them or reject them, move with them or against them? By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the whole of who I am.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Integrity, Real, Moving

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together

  Virginia Woolf

  Hurt, Pain, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4186, Delphi Classics

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• God is Someone who creates something out of nothing. He takes emptiness and creates wholeness, He takes darkness and speaks light. Because of this, we can come to God empty and weak knowing that He takes us and with His power makes something out of nothing.

  Vicky Beeching

  Light, Knowing, Darkness

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• In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

  Carl Jung

  Wish, Figures, Unconscious

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

  Victor Burgin

  Reality, Identity, Coherence

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• We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Roles, World

  Interview with John Tusa, anishkapoor.com.

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• The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness.

  John Zerzan

  Keys, World, Firsts

  John Zerzan (2002). “Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilisation”

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