Sublime

With this stage comes a deep yearning for wholeness—bringing together the ego and the deeper parts of the self; integrating mind, body, and soul; cultivating both the feminine and masculine parts within; being whole in relation to others; and repairing our broken relationship with life and nature.

Being integrated means being able to accept all aspects of one’s self. An integrated man is able to embrace everything that makes him unique: his power, his assertiveness, his courage, and his passion as well as his imperfections, his mistakes, and his dark side.

To integrate is to bring together into a nonconflicting, noncontradictory unity those elements that are being integrated, in accordance with a goal, need, or standard that operates as the organizing principle. The ultimate biological principle of integration is, of course, that which is required for the life of the organism. All self-healing, at th

Each changing life situation is fluid and dynamic and therefore requires a fluid and dynamic quality of insight and understanding. In the deeper domain of spiritual insight, it is not any particular insight that is ultimately liberating; it is being at one with the dynamic flow of consciousness, life, and the moment that brings the greatest freedom