Quotes about Integration

Life moves first toward diversity and then toward union of that very diversity at ever higher levels. It is the old philosophical problem of "the one and the many

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance—not one or the other, but always both at the same time.

We are driven, kicking and screaming, toward ever higher levels of union and ability to include (to forgive others for being "other"), it seems to me. "Everything that rises must converge," as Teilhard de Chardin put it.

do not find our own Center; it finds us. The body is in the soul. It is both the place of contact and the place of surrender.

He wants to be included in every activity, every conversation, every problem, and even every thought.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

Carefully studying the Bible will reveal to us our own ignorance of these things. It will challenge us to reject a superficial understanding of Christianity and impress on us that it is imperative not to simply be religious or moral, but also to master the Bible intellectually, integrate its principles into our lives morally, and put into action what we have learned practically.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.