Top 299 Wholeness Quotes & Sayings

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.

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.

We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.

Women's work is always toward wholeness.

By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

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

When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures.

We are already complete. All we need is the clarity to recognize the wholeness that is us.

What is needed is to learn afresh, to observe, and to discover for ourselves the meaning of wholeness.

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This feeling of wholeness can be experienced no matter what is wrong with your body. One part of your body, or many parts of your body, may be diseased or in pain or even missing, yet you can still cradle them in this experience of wholeness. - Jon Kabat

Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another

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

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

Health is wholeness--wholeness in its most profound sense, with nothing left out and everything in just the right order to manifest the mystery of balance. Far from being simply the absence of disease, health is a dynamic and harmonious equilibrium of all the elements and forces making up and surrounding a human being.

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

If you ask the Universe to be your partner and guide you on the path to wholeness, it will oblige.

Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born. If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we're healing.

The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

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.

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts... Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.

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.

This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they seek. The wholeness they are looking for may be trapped within themselves by beliefs, attitudes, and self-doubt. But our wholeness exists in us now. Trapped though it may be, it can be called upon for guidance, direction, and most fundamentally, comfort. It can be remembered. Eventually we may come to live by it.

Wholeness invokes balance.

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

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

Our spirituality lies in wholeness.

Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

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

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

Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.

Most of us are dragged toward wholeness.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

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

Reality is recognized in its wholeness only as it shatters to bits.

Health is a return to our memory of wholeness.

Passion gives me moments of wholeness.

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.

Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness. Healing, health, whole and holy all mean inclusiveness. Body, mind, spirit, environment, relationships, social interactions are all one wholeness, and you're a part of that one wholeness.

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.

Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.