#Wholeness Quotes

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.”

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

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

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

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

“Love is the pursuit of the whole.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.”

“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.”

“All things are complete within ourselves.”

“. . . 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.”

“The separate parts make no carriage.”

“Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel.”

“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.”

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

“This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole.”

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

“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.”

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

“You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

“People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.”

“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.”

“If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.”

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

“All things are already complete in oneself.”

“The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness.”