Hi all, I am excited to include another guest blog post
on the Wholeness Simplified Blog.
Simple in form but not strictly minimalist, these richly colored works, painted on handmade Indian paper, are deeply soulful contemplations
on wholeness and unity.
Since the basic idea of holistic care is the focus
on wholeness, it only makes sense from a healing aspect that the mind, body, spirit be dealt with simultaneously.
Let's focus our attention
on the wholeness of the human results and not so much on the science.
Nothing could have a greater impact
on the wholeness of the next generation than providing in every community a network of readily available growth and growth - repair (therapy) opportunities for parents of young children and parents - to - be.
The emphasis
on wholeness, the interconnectedness of everything with everything else which is so characteristic of Whiteheadian metaphysics, nourished Suchocki in her own feminist aspirations toward integrity, i.e., a self - image which would be peculiarly her own and yet would be in line with the legitimate expectations of others ~ she commented, «we women are weavers, weaving the intelligible pattern of our lives out of the fabric of intensely personal experiences of sharing life with others.
Philosophy succeeds in rendering me... help in its individual disciplines precisely through each of these disciplines not reflecting, and not being able to reflect,
on the wholeness of man... in every one of these disciplines the possibility of its achieving anything in thought rests precisely on its objectification, on what may be termed its «de-humanization.»
A corollary of Buber's emphasis
on the wholeness of man is his rejection of the traditional idea that man is human because of his reason.
It is clear that one foundation of Buber's definition of ethics is his philosophy of dialogue with its emphasis
on wholeness, decision, presentness, and uniqueness.
Not exact matches
Our
wholeness, our integrity, depends
on the health of our friendship with God.
The Cross was an instrument of death but I think as a symbol it represents
wholeness with it's different dimensions in which the celts were able to expand
on its significane.
(Of course, that's exactly what the «Literal Word of God» folks are doing, too, but they carry the burden of having to reconcile all those unfortunate lines about slaves, murder, rape, and so
on with spiritual
wholeness.)
Open your eyes and see what the Spirit is birthing in these days, watch women rising up to reclaim their communities for peace and
wholeness, watch women laying
on hands and proclaiming the Gospel with their lives and their voices and their writing and their songs and even, yes, in their quiet.
From this research, Barb wrote the book * Spiritual Abuse Recovery: Dynamic Research
on Finding a Place of
Wholeness *.
Play having opened him up to the possibility of relating directly to joy itself, Lewis later found that joy to be fully actualized in his personal experience with Jesus Christ.83 According to Lewis, not only does God's joy cause us to «en - joy»
on the tangent of play's horizon where the radical otherness of God meets the radical
wholeness of humankind, but joy also expresses itself in the encounter with the person of Christ.
The coverage of and commentary
on these and similar stories has everything to do with profitability and very little to do with the advancement of social health and human
wholeness.
His gentle call is for healing, forgiveness and
wholeness on our road to holiness.
Our young woman continues
on her solitary journey towards her own courage and
wholeness.
On the other hand, they have in common this notion of unbroken
wholeness.
Reaching for the
wholeness of Scripture is to read each text in the canonical context, not to see it as an atomic unit all alone but as a member of the divinely willed body of the canon such that the light of every part is shed
on all the rest.
Therefore, this notion of unbroken
wholeness seems to be the one common feature which might unite relativity and quantum mechanics, whereas they fall apart
on the attempt to describe in detail how things happen.
We long to experience the
wholeness, or shalom, that Jesus unfurled
on the earth.
We worked for a sense of
wholeness, a new perspective
on the self, a feeling of internal, personal goodness.
Beyond the anger — if we can keep
on talking to each other long enough — awaits a relationship between the sexes which can provide the basis for a benevolent society and fullness (
wholeness) of life for everyone.
The
wholeness (shalom) of human existence is already present as the promise of God's blessing
on those who seek life.
Couldn't there be a kind of very concrete reflection — a kind of phenomenological reflection that tries to grasp the event in its
wholeness, but is still reflecting
on it?
In our sexual lives, as in all other areas, we know that while we may be
on a journey toward
wholeness, we are a long way from our destination.
In doing so it would become so general that it would reach a false unity instead of the genuine
wholeness of the subject based
on «the contemplation of all its manifold nature.»
To become aware of a man, therefore, means in particular to perceive his
wholeness as person defined by spirit: to perceive the dynamic centre which stamps
on all his utterances, actions, and attitudes the tangible sign of oneness.
Similarly, it must be based not only
on the personal
wholeness of the individual but also
on a social restructuring of society.
Buber's early essays
on Judaism set forth with marked clarity the concern for personal
wholeness, for the realization of truth in life, and for the joining of spirit and of basic life energies which consistently appears in all of his later writings and determines, as much as any other element of his thought, his attitude toward evil.
To obtain a right perspective we must remember, he says, «that the relation of a soul to its organic life depends
on the degree of
wholeness and unity attained by the soul.»
At this point it is sufficient to say that for the moment we recognize that we are not what we might be, that human existence is in defection from its proper fulfillment, and that we are in need of the
wholeness of life which will put us
on the right path and enable us to become more and more what God intends for us to be.
Nietzsche's influence may account in part for the dynamism of Buber's philosophy, for its concern with creativity and greatness, for its emphasis
on the concrete and actual as opposed to the ideal and abstract, for its idea of the fruitfulness of conflict, and for its emphasis
on the value of life impulses and
wholeness of being as opposed to detached intellectuality.
He had a strong emphasis
on androgynous
wholeness in his understanding of growth.
They are based
on positive interactions, effective communication and an emotional give - and - take with another human being that reflects health and
wholeness.
I can't stop asking God to heal him and lead him to
wholeness, but it feels hypocritical and just plain false to keep
on.
Open your eyes and see what the Spirit is birthing in these days, watch women rising up to reclaim their communities for peace and
wholeness, watch women laying
on hands and proclaiming the Gospel with their lives and their voices and their writing and their songs and their storms.
If one pierces beneath the veneer of pop - cartesianism the old way of holding
on to what is important and desiring for
wholeness in even an infinite can make itself shown.
Since health is
wholeness, this goal can not be reached by concentrating solely
on physical activity.
Those who think
on Marxist lines believe that all that is necessary to inspire and polarize the human molecules is that they should look forward to an eventual state of collective reflection and sympathy, at the culmination of anthropogenesis, from which all will benefit through participation: as it were, a vault of intermingled thoughts, a closed circuit of attachments in which the individual will achieve intellectual and affective
wholeness to the extent that he is one with the whole system.
(19) Perls» emphasis
on authentic living,
on encountering the «fertile void,»
on death and rebirth,
on awakening to one's potential and powers — all have affinities with the salugenic (
wholeness - nurturing) dimension of the Judeo - Christian heritage.
The Spirit is the vitality that operates
on the frontiers of life directing it and thrusting it toward
wholeness and joy.
In the words of an ancient prayer, it is the visible expression of «that wonderful and sacred mystery» which speaks to us and works
on us, through the very imperfection, weakness, error, and even the sin of the empirical institution, to manifest in the world of time and space the abiding reality of God's operation in the event of Christ for human
wholeness.
It takes courage for people to talk through their pain
on their way to
wholeness.
In part the realization of the Church community in the New World waits
on the development of institutions able to give it form and
wholeness; in part the institutionalization in denominations expresses the variety and unity characteristic of the community
on this part of the planet.
The teaching of Jesus that those who follow him have eternal life means that spiritual
wholeness does not depend
on marriage or
on becoming a parent.
You recruit a team of professionals to work with you in promoting peace and
wholeness with patients, psychotherapists to help them focus
on hope, physical therapists to help them learn to be at home in their bodies again.
You have felt it
on occasions when you were accepted as a person just as you are, when you felt the «attributed
wholeness» that society can and does give.
Boff confronts the challenges offered by today's world in its
wholeness, not denying the existing antagonisms
on a micro as well as a macro level.