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What does it mean?
Individuality requires wholeness.
In plain terms
You can't be truly unique without being whole.
What can you take from it?
Seek wholeness to grow individuality.

Where it applies

  • personal growth
  • therapy
  • self-help

Putting it to work

  • Practice self-integration
  • Study holistic psychology

Questions to consider

  • What makes you feel whole?
  • How does society fragment identity?

Another view

Wholeness is hard to define or measure.

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