Wholeness

• There is the fact of wholeness—and by fact I mean what actually IS and can never be sundered, altered, or threatened—and there is the experience of wholeness that by and large is missing. Separation, no matter how real in our experience, is only ONE view of things, and is well supported by vision and our “languaging” of the world. Nonetheless, it is not the truth. This fact is coming more and more to the surface as the world shrinks through technology and the globalization of our collective economy. As Mother Theresa said, “If we are not at peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” It would be insane to think of a person’s body the same way we think of the body of humanity. The arm of a body could never fully express itself or its purpose if it considered itself as disconnected from and independent of the whole of which it is a part. What action would it want? For what? It is only AS a part of the whole, whose actions and being are inextricably, tied it, that it can fully express itself and fulfill itself.
• The union of our lower and higher self, giving expression as a singular voice in the world.
• One aspect of wholeness is the balancing and uniting of our inner male and inner female. When they are integrated we are connect to our higher self. To attain wholeness it’s important that the head, the heart, and the spirit all function in harmony.
• What I know of wholeness as an experience I know from restoring myself when I am not whole. I restore myself when I have not honored the word I have given, when I have honored a thought that is not my Self, when my experience is of lack in myself or another. I think the hardest lesson I have learned about wholeness is that my access to it has mostly been where I’m not it.  Mostly, I want to ignore that experience, fix or overcome it, put up with it or work around it, rather than just letting it be, engaging it fully and looking for its source.  I know that at the source of it, somewhere I disintegrated my Self.  When I get to that source, it is clear what there is to do to re-integrate my Self.  And like laundry, wholeness and integrity are rarely 100% “in” for very long–but it is in tending to their “outness” that the experience of wholeness can arise.  As I practice that, I gain competency and at some amazing point, I believe mastery sets in.  I want to be used by wholeness rather than practicing it. I don’t have to practice being a dad.  Being a dad is what I wake up into and it uses me. To be used by wholeness for me, however, right now takes practice. That is my road.
• Wholeness is a continual process of owning all of who we are and are destined to become.  It is a state when the body and mind are connected to the emotions and spirit. When this occurs, the “rip in reality”(as Marian Woodman calls it) is healed.
• Wholeness is the art and science of loving, living and being; using all for the sake of the form. As we travel through the different states of consciousness, we become whole in different ways; living is action, loving is passive, Being is suchness.  When all are integrated into ONE, there is completeness.