Wholeness Quotes

• You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

  Maya Angelou

  Jobs, Needs, Persons

  "Rob and Kristen Bell on the Best Way to Find Love". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.eharmony.com.

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• Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Perfection, Doe

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Plato

  Love Is, Names, Desire

  Plato, C. D. C. Reeve “Plato on Love”, Hackett Publishing

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• You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Circles, Humanity, Mindfulness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2012). “Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—and Your Life”, p.62, Sounds True

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

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Cutting, Being Sad

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• Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Happiness, Yoga

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

  Jack Kornfield

  Freedom, True Nature

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• Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Beauty, Mistake

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• Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Splits, Whole

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

  Gary Zukav

  Courage, Lying, Moving

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Life, Artist, Order

  Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu (2010). “Made For Goodness: And why this makes all the difference”, p.48, Random House

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• When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

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• A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

  Eric Butterworth

  Desire, Purpose, Creatures

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

  Desmond Tutu

  Doe, Cacophony, Our Lives

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Mindfulness, Fragility, Sometimes

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  Zig Ziglar

  Integrity, Leader

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

  LeCrae

  Broken, Made, Whole

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• Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Patterns, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Healing, Opportunity

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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• Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Spiritual, Kindness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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

  Tara Brach

  Acceptance, Perfection, Sacred

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• 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

  Parker J. Palmer

  Dream, Mean, Knowing

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Integrity indicates wholeness or oneness. If we have integrity, we are sincere, truthful, fair, and honest.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Integrity, Oneness, Honest

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• The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.

  Thomas Merton

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Love Is

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