How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.
I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It's very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.
I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.
I have everything I need, so there are no blanks left unfilled.
A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.
The true is the whole.
One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
I don't think balance is ever achieved in the full sense of the word.
Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.
It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.
A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.
You were perfect.” Cam dipped his mouth to mine. “Only because I was with you.
I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
Being a mother has made my life complete.
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.
