Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
About this quote
- 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
Putting it to work
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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In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
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