Whole Being Quotes

Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person. I'm not just breasts or ass or thighs - I'm a whole being! And it just seems like women aren't necessarily striving to be the whole of themselves.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a figment of his soul but something that appears to the soul and demands the soul's creative power. What is required is a deed that a man does with his whole being.

The important thing to remember is it's not about balance; it's about integration... to really focus on making sure you're integrating all four aspects of your work, your family, your community and yourself. And it's not about trying to spend equal amounts of time on everything you do each day on each of these things, but making sure you're paying attention to all the things that make it up as a whole human being.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

Think with your whole body.

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.

When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole.

We are more than one part of ourselves.

We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art.