Semezdin Mehmedinovic quotes

Semezdin Mehmedinovic quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Reality is recognized in its wholeness only as it shatters to bits.”
-- Semezdin Mehmedinovic

#Reality Quotes #Wholeness Quotes

“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”
“It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.”
“We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.”
“Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.”
“We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.”
“The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.”
“Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.”
“For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.”

Source : Robert K. Greenleaf, Hamilton Beazley, Julie Beggs (2003). “The Servant-leader Within: A Transformative Path”, p.41, Paulist Press
“If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.”
“What are we when there is no one doing anything, no one attaining anything, no place to go? There is no place to go. The whole foundation is already here in each one of us. It is the same in all of us. There is only one foundation, which is presence, wholeness, boundless love.”

Source : Toni Packer (2002). “The Wonder of Presence: And the Way of Meditative Inquiry”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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