Vivek Murthy
“To me, healing is about making whole. And to be a healer, you have to be able to listen, to learn, and to love.
I think to truly feel whole — it’s not about acquiring something that we don’t have. It’s about remembering who we fundamentally are. When we come into this world — as I see with my own kids, and many of you may have seen with other young people in your lives — we are content. My kids don’t care whether we have a big house or a small house. They don’t care about how fancy the clothes are that they wear or not. They care about finding moments of joy. They care about their relationships they have with the people around them. They observe things whether it’s a fleck on the wall that wasn’t there before, or whether it’s the play of lights as they come through the window in the setting sun. And they find joy in that, in those day-to-day, seemingly ordinary moments.”
Oprah Winfrey
“It’s about releasing any notions of perfection because that is not the goal. Progress is the goal—progress toward a space where you feel more whole and complete.”
Krista Tibbet
“Every surface of fracture in our world notwithstanding, for us all of life is being revealed in its insistence on wholeness: the organic interplay between our bodies, the natural world, the lives we make, the worlds we create. It is the calling of callings to make that vivid and practical and real, starting inside ourselves and with the lives we’ve been given.”
“Wholeness does not mean perfection. Being whole will not mean that we are less strange, but that we turn and structure towards what is life-giving, that we can become conscious of our complexity and our strangeness and work with them — as creatures who also have it in us to become wise.”
Rachel Remen
“When you’re helping, you’re really acknowledging that someone or something is weak. When you’re fixing, you’re acknowledging or saying that something’s broken. When you’re serving, you’re acknowledging and affirming that what you’re serving is whole.”
“That’s the experience of service, which is different than fixing or helping. It’s really from your own wholeness to the wholeness of those that are in your path. – Lynne Twist
Sue Monk Kidd
“When I write memoir, I’m undoubtedly in search of wholeness. Maybe I’m trying to resolve something, heal a wound, redeem some part of myself that has been orphaned or lost, or give a voice to what has been silenced. Maybe I’m trying to step into my truth. Maybe I’m trying to reveal myself to myself….
The surprise is always this. The deeper we delve into our own lives, the more likely we are to tap into a universal experience. We find the portal to everyone. “
Rumi
“When one whole human being meets another whole human being, there is no antagonism. Even if there is difference, there is respect, because the wholeness of one is not in conflict with the wholeness of another.”
Ainsley Arment
“We may not be entirely pieced together. We may have wounds that run deep in our souls. But we can at least give our children parents who are healing, redeeming what’s been broken, and becoming whole.”
Mark Nepo
“We are all parts of one indivisible whole, which love and suffering reveal. And while we come apart from time to time, like now, while we push each other away in our fear, the natural resting position of life on Earth is to join. So that we can release the life-force inherent in the biological, societal, and mystical fact that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Love, trust, courage, and the ability to listen are the agencies of heart that allow us to rejoin. These are the qualities that each soul has waiting within it like golden seeds to be watered by the strength of our kindness. This is the purpose of community: to water these seeds and to join and rejoin.”
Brene Brown
“Our sense of worthiness – that critical piece that gives us access to love and belonging – lives inside our story.”
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.”