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Jason Wachob • Wellth

The importance of this sequence can not be overstated: In living systems the whole generates the parts. The parts do not exist a priori. In each step of this process we can see that both wholes and parts come from existing wholes. They are not constructed in the usual sense—they are not manufactured. They are synthesized via an unbroken chain of wh

thesideview.co • Generating Wholes

Every insight is partial, requires long years of integration into our lives, and is liable itself to be incorporated into our narcissistic fantasies of specialness or into one or another of our secret practices.

Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide

so I can notice for example that biological systems like each of us sitting here in these rooms are trillion cell organisms ... and there is this irreducible complexity associated

with even one cell right the chemistry involved in the the organic chemistry

involved in one cell if you ever choose to explore that it's fascinating the digestive thing is... See more

2024 A+ Zettels

Adler was opposed to any kind of dualistic value system that treated the mind as separate from the body—reason as separate from emotion, or the conscious mind as separate from the unconscious mind.

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Bernstein goes on to say, “to heal the one—the individual psyche—is to heal the other—the universal psyche. They are not separable from the standpoint of Navajo cosmology and medicine.”9

Sandra Easter • Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web

wholeness of life in which everything is interconnected, in which every event has its necessary place and function within the totality.

Eckhart Tolle • A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans

“...dividing the cow in half does not give you two smaller cows. You may end up with a lot of hamburger, but the essential nature of “cow” — a living system capable, among other things, of turning grass into milk — then would be lost. This is what we mean when we say a system functions as a “whole”. Its behavior depends on its entire structure and ... See more

Leyla Acaroglu • Tools for Systems Thinkers: Getting Into Systems Dynamics… and Bathtubs

“We seem to have been living for a long time on the assumption that we can safely deal with parts, leaving the whole to take care of itself.

But now the news from everywhere is that we have to begin gathering up the scattered pieces, figuring out where they belong, and putting them back together. For the parts can be reconciled to one another only