Wholeness Quotes - Page 2

• We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.

  Erwin McManus

  Expression, Goodness

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.151, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Compromise, Easier

  Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

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• Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Light, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from May 10, 2014

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• I am a Divine, magnificent expression of life, and deserve the very best. I accept miracles. I accept healing. I accept wholeness. And most of all, I accept myself. I am precious, and I cherish who I am.

  Louise Hay

  Healing, Who I Am, Expression

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• Wholeness invokes balance.

  M. J. Ryan

  Balance, Invoke

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• Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness - mine, yours, ours - need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life

  Parker J. Palmer

  Dream, Mean, Knowing

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

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• The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Self, Psychics

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• Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

  Andrew Weil

  Resilience, Balance, Demand

  Andrew Weil, M.D. (2013). “8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Family, Friends, Community

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.115, A&C Black

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• That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

  Corita Kent

  People, Looks, Painting

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• People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.

  Alan Cohen

  Uplifting, Heart, People

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• Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are.

  John C. Maxwell

  Integrity, Thinking, People

  John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Power of Thinking Big”, p.25, David C Cook

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• Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Spiritual, Kindness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.

  Thomas Merton

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Love Is

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• Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning in such a harmony, in such wholeness, humming so beautifully... that they are in a melody, they are one. Your whole being - body, mind, soul - is involved in meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Mean, Meditation

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• You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

  Joy Page

  Love, Pain, Judging

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• People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

  Christopher Alexander

  Creating, People, Process

  Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure (2004). “The luminous ground: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe”

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• Integrity indicates wholeness or oneness. If we have integrity, we are sincere, truthful, fair, and honest.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Integrity, Oneness, Honest

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• Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Beauty, Christian, Radiance

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• It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Heart, Eye, Drawing

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• In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness.

  Gary Snyder

  Gratitude, Play, Simplicity

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.25, Counterpoint Press

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• Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Honesty

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• We are internally related to everything, not [just] externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole, we take in the whole, and we act toward the whole. Whatever we have taken in determines basically what we are. Wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality then reality will respond coherently to us.

  David Bohm

  Attitude, Taken, Reality

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• I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.

  Kathleen Norris

  People, Goal, Strive

  Kathleen Norris (1998). “The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "women's Work"”, p.35, Paulist Press

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