Wholeness Quotes - Page 8

• To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mean, Spheres, Being Me

  4 Copy quote

• I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. 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, Children

  Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind (1976). “Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings”, Sussex University Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I drink in his wholeness, the soudness of his body and mind. It runs through me like the morphling they give me in the hospital, dulling the pain of the last weeks.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Pain, Giving

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1019, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

  Wendell Berry

  Respect, Understanding, Ignorant

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.90, Counterpoint Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Circumstances, Mortals

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.

  Dan Chaon

  Mirrors, Giving, Community

  "Dan Chaon: Characters find sense of self" by Michelle Broder Van Dyke, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Writing, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.

  Anais Nin

  Destiny, Mirrors, Childhood

  4 Copy quote

• the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self, Expression, Society

  4 Copy quote

• But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Walking Away, Sight, Broken

  69 Copy quote

• Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be nearly invisible... It was more than diginity. Integrity? Wholeness? Like a block of wood not carved. The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Block, Integrity, Eye

  4 Copy quote

• The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Mean, Knowing

  "The Golden Notebook (Free Women: 1)". Book by Doris Lessing, 1962.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.

  Martin Buber

  Philosophical, Men, Humanity

  Martin Buber, S. N. Eisenstadt (1992). “On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Day and night will not cease. Yet, you need not continue viewing them as opposites. There is no longer a need to think that night has the same power as day. There is just the power of light, with variations of intensity and interruption. Once the full scope of understanding is attained, duality fades away. Higher intelligence is manifested through integrated perceptions of wholeness which restore your recognition of the one spirit. The sons of God are those who do not explain life or manage it with dualistic concepts. The sons of God are those who seek to perceive wholeness in all things.

  Glenda Green

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Son

  Glenda Green (2002). “Love Without End: Jesus Speaks--”, p.237, Fideli Publishing Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion to achieve a 'wholeness' or 'oneness,' the experiencing of which should be revelatory - both for the artist and the spectator - something akin to the experience of enlightenment in terms of religion.

  Douglas Portway

  Art, Believe, Opposites

  14 Copy quote

• Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known.

  Edward Weston

  Reality, Fusion, Revolution

  7 Copy quote

• The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's only gift that enables man to transcend his tragedy and regain his wholeness and well-being beyond the claws of evil, rampaging as evil may be.

  Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

  Artist, Love Is, Men

  8 Copy quote

• Lucifer comes to give to us the final gift of wholeness. If we accept it then he is free and we are free. This is the Luciferic initiation. It is one that many people now, and in the days ahead, will be facing, for it is an initiation in the New Age.

  David Spangler

  People, Giving, Religion

  26 Copy quote

• Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

  Abraham Maslow

  Success, Creativity, Self

  161 Copy quote

• Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Quality, Gains

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

  Hugo Weaving

  Strong, Kids, Identity

  7 Copy quote

• The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.

  David Bohm

  Civilization, Unbroken, Way

  11 Copy quote

• When there is integrity, an entirety, a wholeness, in what you say and do, you are consciously resurrecting the incredibly powerful success mechanism you used instinctively from the time you first came to be.

  Mike Hernacki

  Positive, Powerful, Integrity

  Hernacki, Mike “The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success”, Pelican Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Creative, Persons

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Hamilton Beazley, Julie Beggs (2003). “The Servant-leader Within: A Transformative Path”, p.41, Paulist Press

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights.

  Densey Clyne

  Responsibility, Animal, Rights

  4 Copy quote