Holistic Understanding Quotes

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.

The entire heavenly realm is within us, but to find it we have to relate to what's outside.

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.

I look upon the whole world as my parish.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists. To know anything at all becomes a moral predicament. Aware that there is no such thing as a specialized effect, one becomes responsible for judgments as well as facts. Aware that as an agricultural scientist he had 'one great subject,' Sir Albert Howard could no longer ask, What can I do with what I know? without at the same time asking, How can I be responsible for what I know?

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

Our efforts are to be directed towards narrowing the gap between the study of shastras and science.

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

Any issue, including political, economic and religious activities human beings pursue in this world, should be fully understood before we pass our judgement. Therefore, it is very important to know the causes. Whatever the issue, we should be able to see the complete picture. This will enable us to comprehend the whole story.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.