Ep 10 Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
The Wholeness in our Holes
Every time we come across something that we might register as wrong or weak or compromising it can feel like a hole in our sense of Self. Courtesy of AZQUOTES, here are a variety of voices that speak of how those holes are just part of something grander that we each are and actually enhance our lives. Here is a navigational guide for your Journey Into Enlightenment.
“Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.”
Parker J. Palmer
“To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.”
Dogen
“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
“The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience...Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”
Alan Watts
“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
“Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.”
Albert Einstein
“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
“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
“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
“Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.”
Richard Rohr
“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.”
Carl Jung
Happy trails to you on your journey,
Janet Barrett