Quotes about wholeness

Oli Anderson - Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life 'Ego' is whatever within you stops you taking it.

Ellen J. Barrier -

To possess a rich life of wholeness that brings happiness into the soul is to show loving and caring characteristic traits toward others.

Sunday Adelaja -

Focus your whole attention on heaven become a citizen of heaven.

Thomas Merton - No Man Is an Island

There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life, we are made for an act that gathers up all the powers and capacities of our being and offers them simultaneously and forever to God. The blind spiritual instinct that tells us obscurely that our owns lives have a particular importance and purpose, and which urges us to find out our vocation, seeks in so doing to bring us to a decision that will dedicate our lives irrevocab

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

In the pursuit of wholeness, there will surely be challenges but you need to keep going.

C.G. Jung -

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

Rupi Kaur -

it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.

Wendell Berry - The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.

Fernando Pessoa - Poems of Fernando Pessoa

To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above.

Confucius - Essential Writings of Confucianism: The Analects of Confucius and the Mencius

Heaven means to be one with God.

Alberto Caeiro - The Keeper of Sheep

I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real and true wholenessIs a sickness of our ideas.

J.R.R. Tolkien -

[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.

Lynne Cockrum-Murphy - Unfolding the Mystery of Self: We are Never Alone

Not only are we not alone, we are a thread in a great tapestry that is rich, because we exist.

Stormie Omartian - Prayers for Emotional Wholeness: 365 Prayers for Living in Freedom

Lord, help me to have Your love and forgiveness in my heart. Enable me to live in peace, tranquility, simplicity, and good health. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Jay Woodman -

Affirmations: "I love & respect my mind, body, spirit." & "I do what best nurtures all parts of myself." & "I thrive on wholeness." Namaste!

David Wilkerson - The Cross and the Switchblade

What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness

Martha Boles - Universal Patterns

This world is of a single piece; yet, we invent nets to trap it for our inspection. Then we mistake our nets for the reality of the piece. In these nets we catch the fishes of the intellect but the sea of wholeness forever eludes our grasp. So, we forget our original intent and then mistake the nets for the sea.Three of these nets we have named Nature, Mathematics, and Art. We conclude they are different because we call them by different names. Thus, they are apt to remain forever separated with

Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet

Girls and women, in their new, particular unfolding, will only in passing imitate men's behavior and misbehavior and follow in male professions. Once the uncertainty of such transitions is over it will emerge that women have only passed through the spectrum and the variety of those (often laughable) disguises in order to purify their truest natures from the distorting influences of the other sex. Women, in whom life abides and dwells more immediately, more fruitfully and more trustingly, are bou

Sharon Weil - and Awakeners Navigate Change

Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.

Wendell Berry - The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of work. There is work that is isolating, harsh, destructive, specialized or trivialized into meaninglessness. And there is work that is restorative, convivial, dignified and dignifying, and pleasing. Good work is not just the maintenance of connections - as one is now said to work "for a living" or "to support a family" - but the enactment of connections. It is living,

Harshvardhan Malpani -

You can either go home with enough money or enough excuses, but not both!

Leonora Carrington - Down Below

I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which might have enlightened us. This morning, the idea of the egg came again to my mind and I thought that I could use it as a crystal to look at Madrid in those days of July and August 1940—for why should it not enclose my own experiences as well as the past and future history of the Universe? The egg is the macrocosm and the microcosm, the dividing line between t

Ellen Bass - The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

... it is possible to heal. It is even possible to thrive. Thriving means more than just an alleviation of symptoms, more than Band-Aids, more than functioning adequately. Thriving means enjoying a feeling of wholeness, satisfaction in your life and work, genuine love and trust in your relationships, pleasure in your body.

Robert K. Greenleaf - Servant As Leader

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

Janet Gallagher Nestor - Nurturing Wellness Through Radical Self-Care: A Living in Balance Guide and Workbook

There are as many life missions as there are people. We are all unique. We are all important.

Renae A.Sauter -

Through the absence of what we think we have to have we can discover our wholeness

Heidi Reagan -

Our ability to discover new experiences exists outside of who we are in the Box.

C.G. Jung - The Essential Jung: Selected Writings

If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general.

Sharon Weil - and Awakeners Navigate Change

In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.

Bud Harris - Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance

The journey into wholeness means we have to learn to respect the other voice that speaks within us. It means to pay attention to our emotions, thoughts, dreams and fantasies even when they're unpleasant and objectionable.

Mary Rose O'Reilley - Buddhist Shepherd

Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours.

Judith Plaskow - Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective

When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than ourselves.

Swami Dhyan Giten - Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that I do not trust that life takes care of me. But now I discover a silent place in the depth of my inner being, where I am already one with life, where I am OK as I am. It is also a silent inner place of healing and wholeness, where I can find a love and acceptance for that which is imperfect within myself.

Swami Dhyan Giten - The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life

It is when our inner male and female sides meets within ourselves that a new spark of love, joy, and wholeness arises within ourselves.

Swami Dhyan Giten - Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean. In meditation, I feel how my inner being expands into an inner ocean, which is part of everything, which is one with Existence. Through the inner being, we come in contact with the inner ocean, the undefined and boundless within ourselves, where we are one with life. We realize that God is part of life. We realize that God is not a person, but the consciousness that is part of every

Swami Dhyan Giten -

I was 9 years old when I had my first glimpse of wholeness. It was early Christmas morning and I was standing in my pajamas in the living room and looked out of the large windows. Outside the white snow flakes silently singled down toward a snowclad landscape. Suddenly I was filled with a feeling of being one with the slowly dancing snowflakes, one with the silent landscape. I did not understand then that this was my first taste of meditation, but it created a deep thirst and a longing in my hea

Swami Dhyan Giten - Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.

Jon Kabat-Zinn - There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Non-doing simply means letting things be and allowing them to unfold in their own way.

C.G. Jung -

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau -

After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively.

Shane Eric Mathias - Creative and Purposeful Life

We must endeavor to be whole, whether in or out of a relationship, basing happiness on our own internal resources rather than relying on someone else to full the perceived gaps in our lives.

Veronica Roth - Allegiant

I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low.'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent.'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole.

Steve Goodier -

When I’ve lost my way or when I am confused about a path to take, I remember that most answers I need I already possess – deep inside. I am naturally creative, resourceful and whole. If I consult my invisible compass, I’ll know what to do.

Swami Dhyan Giten - The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life

It is when we develop both our inner man and woman that we find a new harmony and wholeness within ourselves. Healing means to develop and integrate our inner man and woman so that love can flow between them. To rediscover our own inner source of love, we need to embrace both the male and female sides within ourselves. When these two sides are developed and integrated, a new spark of love, joy, harmony, creativity and wholeness arises within us. Awareness is an inner harmony between opposite pol

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.

Brené Brown - Rising Strong

Grief seems to create losses within us that reach beyond our awareness--we feel as if we're missing something that was invisible and unknown to us while we had it, but is now painfully gone...Longing is not conscious wanting; it's an involuntary yearning for wholeness, for understanding, for meaning, for the opportunity to regain or even simply touch what we've lost.

Deepak Chopra - The Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness

Awareness ultimately has no boundaries. It exists in this world but endlessly goes beyond it. The world's great wisdom traditions all derive from a higher reality that is indescribable but can be experienced. This is the greatest wonder and source of awe. As the ancient Indian sages declare, “This isn't knowledge that you learn. It's knowledge that you become.” When you fully absorb this insight, you know what it means to transcend. You don't need to travel anywhere; all of reality exists in you

Ashley Mae Hoiland - One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God

I think of the New Testament story of the woman with an issue of blood--specifically of her hand reaching out into the clutter and chaos of a crowd, not sure that she would reach Christ, but nevertheless reaching for him in hope. Her story is sacred to me because she truly believed that by reaching outside of the bounds that her culture had set for her--perhaps even the bounds she had set for herself--she could be made whole.

Madeleine L'Engle - Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Wendell Berry - The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when what we have chosen and what we desire are the same. Such a convergence obviously cannot be continuous. No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of these moments, which give us the highest joy we can know; that of union, communion, atonement (in the root sense of at-one-ment)...To forsake all others does not mean - because it cann

G.I. Gurdjieff -

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.

Donovan L. Graham - Teaching Redemptively: Bringing Grace and Truth Into Your Classroom

School curriculum, learning activities--all educational pursuits--should be characterized by and should lead to a sense and experience of wholeness. (p25)

James Hollis - The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

Robert Graves -

Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if we think we are whole in mind and soul and body.

Tyconis D. Allison Ty -

We are not equal, we are two halves that make each other whole.

Audre Lorde -

Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

Kate McGahan -

The cops will break down your door to save you. God will break down your constitution. Brokenness is not the opposite of wholeness. It's how He gets in.

Q.Gibson -

Sometimes broken people teach broken people how to be whole again.

Anna Funder - Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

Zhuangzi - The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little hole - this refers to a difference in function. Thoroughbreds like Qiji and Hualiu could gallop a thousand li in one day, but when it came to catching rats they were no match for the wildcat or the weasel - this refers to a difference in skill. The horned owl catches fleas at night and can spot the tip of a hair, but when daylight comes, no matter how wide it opens its eyes, it cannot see a mound

Assegid Habtewold - The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Every new self-discovery leads you to more wholeness, opens your heart, makes you humble, and a better person to serve and love others.

Assegid Habtewold - The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Every new self-discovery leads you to more wholeness, opens your heart, makes you humble, and a better person to serve and love others." Page 8

Kathryn V. White -

A fuller expression of Self comes from the journey for greater wholeness.

Suzette R. Hinton -

Every step you take, every breath, every conversation, your calling is center stage. There is no longer a piece here and a piece there, but there is wholeness. The sound of your voice and the sound of your life have come together.

Parker J. Palmer - Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

But if I am to let my life speak things I want to hear, things I would gladly tell others, I must also let it speak things I do not want to hear and would never tell anyone else! My life is not only about my strengths and virtues; it is also about my liabilities and my limits, my trespasses and my shadow. An inevitable though often ignored dimension of the quest for 'wholeness' is that we must embrace what we dislike or find shameful about ourselves as well as what we are confident and proud of.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Work to become whole enough to love and to be loved.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

We are all made complete by our pain.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Michael Meade - The Genius Myth

When seen with imagination, all things shift toward meaning, releasing energies that are hidden within appearances, releasing the inner wings of spirit, opening wide the doors to healing and wholeness.

Vironika Tugaleva - The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

I flourish when I realize I'm already complete.

Swami Dhyan Giten - The Silent Whisperings of the Heart - An Introduction to Giten's Approach to Life

When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy.

Sunday Adelaja -

Experience The Wholeness Of Purpose Is To Be Equipped To Face Ungodly Governmental Policies

John Berger - Confabulations

A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.

Zhuangzi - The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slander, fame, hunger, thirst, cold, heat - these are the alternations of the world, the workings of fate. Day and night they change place before us, and wisdom cannot spy out their source. Therefore, they should not be enough to destroy your harmony; they should not be allowed to enter the storehouse of the spirit. If you can harmonize and delight in them, master them and never be at a loss for joy; if

Nathan Foster - 000 Feet

He treats the person as if they were fully whole.We become what others expect us to be. Dad expected me to get better and even assumed I would have something helpful to say. Funny how we rise and fall to the assumptions of others.

Rabindranath Tagore -

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal -

The only thing we need to heal is the belief that we are not already whole.

Maureen Brady - Daybreak: Meditations For Women Survivors Of Sexual Abuse

I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.

Jan Porter - Woman have you had enough?" fiction by; Jan Porter

As we come into balance within ourselves and the all that is, we balance the past, future and our Earth.

Anna White - and Leaps of Faith

Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don’t have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal -

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

Laura Teresa Marquez -

From deep within, our spirits are calling for a new and greater global wholeness, global healing, and global opportunity -- the voice is ours, the time is now, and the resources are what we have.

Vironika Tugaleva - The Love Mindset

When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.

Michael Meade - The Genius Myth

Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the splits and confusions of our lives, or we surrender to something greater than ourselves. The water of our deepest troubles is also the water of our own solution. In surrender, we descend down to the bottom of it and back to the beginning of it; down into what is divided in order to get back to the wholeness before the split. Healing, health, wealth, wholeness: all hail from the same roots. To heal is t

Tae Yun Kim - The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy

White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.

John Piper - Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. It is not simply a way to “enhance” your walk with the Lord. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit, your “faith” cannot please God. It is not saving faith. Saving faith is the confidence that if you sell all you have and forsake all sinful pleasures, the hidden treasure of holy joy will satisfy your deepest desires. Saving faith is the heartfelt conviction not only that Chr

Tara Brach - Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

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

Audre Lorde - Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

Josh Hatcher - Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity

The root of the word “integrity” is “integer.” It’s a math term - and it refers to whole numbers. The word itself implies “wholeness.” These are the questions we must ask ourselves frequently. “Am I whole?” “Are there parts of my character that are lacking?

Charles Ives -

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - and Selections from The House of the De

Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning (some things, perhaps, it will never learn; this is a poor comfort, but why not say so frankly?) and human nature acts as a whole, with everything that is in it, consciously or unconsciously, and, even it if goes wrong, it l

Wendell Berry - Another Turn of the Crank

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world. summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.I believe that health is wholeness. For many years I have returned again a

Aletheia Luna - Empowering and Honoring Yourself as an Introvert

You are like an ocean: quietly ebbing and flowing to the rhythm of life, but wildly expansive and profoundly powerful. You are boundless. You are whole. Your quietness is your strength. Your depth is your advantage.

J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

I feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before. Probably a permanent holiday: I don't expect I shall return. in fact, I don't mean to, and I have made all arrangements....I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.'Bilbo