Wholeness Quotes

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

Be truly whole, and all things will return to you.

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

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

Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself.

Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

All things are already complete in oneself.

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

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

If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new.

I would rather be whole than good.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole.

The separate parts make no carriage.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

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

The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.

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

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.