Wholeness, The Whole and Wholonomics - Wholonomics Process Paper

My prayer became ‘May I find peace… May I love this life no matter what.’ I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come. Tara Brach Life, Love, Peace, Experience, Prayer

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. David Bohm

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness. Jon Kabat-Zinn

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Bring your whole self to work because, that way, you can bring full ideas and the wholeness of your unique abilities. Bozoma Saint John

Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a memory. Derek Walcott

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important. Minoru Yamasaki

Building, Important, Human, Human Being

Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha’s insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha’s basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and recovering a sense of wholeness. Peter A. Levine

We live in a fractured world. I’ve always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. Anish Kapoor

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness. Joy Page

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness. Andrew Cohen

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. Richard Pousette-Dart

That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. Corita Kent

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it. Guy Finley

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death. Frederick Buechner

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness. Sue Monk Kidd

When people ask me who I’d want to have dinner with, dead or alive, I always say, ‘John Lennon.’ I just feel that he was an artist who was, in his own way, committed to wholeness and authenticity in a not dissimilar way that I am years later. Alanis Morissette

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. David Bohm

Reality, Kind, New, Drops, Theory, Older

What I appreciate about Radiohead’s work – and it’s most evident in ‘Hail to the Thief’ – is how the juxtaposition of narratives on the band’s albums somehow creates a sense of wholeness. David Means

Work, Appreciate, Band, Thief, Sense

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they’re exposed to as if it’s already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory. Damian Loeb

Art, Perfect, Knowing, Without, Assume

When you’re a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity. Hugo Weaving

Identity, Strong, Wonder, You, Kid, Own

The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you’re experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true. Dan Chaon

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Seeing Nature Whole — A Goethean Approach

Making Nature Whole is a seminal volume that presents an in-depth history of the field of ecological restoration as it has developed in the United States over the last three decades. The authors draw from both published and unpublished sources, including archival materials and oral histories from early practitioners, to explore the development of the field and its importance to environmental management as well as to the larger environmental movement and our understanding of the world.

Considering antecedents as varied as monastic gardens, the Scientific Revolution, and the emerging nature-awareness of nineteenth-century Romantics and Transcendentalists, Jordan and Lubick offer unique insight into the field’s philosophical and theoretical underpinnings. They examine specifically the more recent history, including the story of those who first attempted to recreate natural ecosystems early in the 20th century, as well as those who over the past few decades have realized the value of this approach not only as a critical element in conservation but also as a context for negotiating the ever-changing relationship between humans and the natural environment.

Making Nature Whole is a landmark contribution, providing context and history regarding a distinctive form of land management and giving readers a fascinating overview of the development of the field. It is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding where ecological restoration came from or where it might be going.

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