Totality Quotes - Page 2

• We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Soul, Consciousness

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• Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Consciousness, Life Is, Individual

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• One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to recognize that death is no more extraordinary than birth. When they say it's the end of everything they don't seem to recognize that we came from somewhere and it would be very, very strange indeed to suppose that we're not going somewhere.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Would Be, Looks

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Moving, Spiritual Wisdom

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• The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

  Albert Einstein

  Destiny, Vanity, Order

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.232, Princeton University Press

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• The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Wisest Man, Judging

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.408, Dell

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• If you do not love yourself to the depth of totality, you will never love love as a reality.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Reality

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• True humility means total dependence on God for everything.

  T. B. Joshua

  Mean, Humility, Dependence

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• Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Successful, Men

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• Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Earth, Coping, Spaceships

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.83, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

  Isaac Asimov

  Spiritual, Atheist, Fear

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.481, Bantam

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• The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

  Charles Bukowski

  Heaven, Doe, Crowds

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• Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

  Brian Greene

  Reality, Physics, Universe

  "Greene, With Curiosity". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.

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• As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.

  Alan Lightman

  Wells, Universe

  Alan Lightman (2012). “Mr g: A Novel About the Creation”, p.33, Vintage

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• Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.

  E. J. Gold

  Reality, Uncontrollable Urge, Breathing

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• We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfection, One Day, Degrees

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• The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

  Sholem Asch

  Details, Height, Spirit

  Sholem Asch (1941). “What I Believe”

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• There is something beyond the natural chaos that is woman or the chaos with implied order that is man, and that's the totality. To stay as we are, is not the issue, but to awake from the dream of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Women, Issues

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• No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Cutting, Reality

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• The dance goes from realizing that you're separate (which is the awakening) to then trying to find your way back into the totality of which you are not only a part, but which you are.

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  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Trying, Awakening

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• The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

  Anais Nin

  Passion, Personality, Moments

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• The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived by the tick; and we creatures of the digital era must relate to the pulse.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Community, Pulse, Eras

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.55, Penguin

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• Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.

  Karl Marx

  Block, Real, War

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx, Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 76, 1857-1858.

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• Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.

  Tony Hillerman

  Eye, Reality, Men

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• I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

  Donald Miller

  Breakfast, Pancakes, Made

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.117, Thomas Nelson Inc

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