Ganzheit – Ganzheitliches Weltbild

• From the viewpoint of singularity, there appears to be multiplicity, but from the omnipresence of simultaneous multiplicity, there is only the singularity of oneness. Omnipresence obliterates any perceptual artifact of either singularity or multiplicity. In reality, neither condition exists. There is neither ‘here’ nor ‘there’; there is neither ‘now’ nor ‘then’; there is neither ‘past’ nor ‘future’; there is neither ‘complete’ nor incomplete’, nor is there ‘becoming’ in that which is already and totally self-existent.   David R. Hawkins, Eye of the I, S. 16

• I am only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family – 5 billion strong, in fact 30 million species strong, and borders and governments will never change that. Severn Cullis-Suzuki, age 12, Environmental Children's organisation ECO, Canada, address at Earth Summit, an UN Environmental Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992; The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes, YouTube film, minute 2:56ff, 6:42 minutes duration, posted 18. April 2008

• Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the people on the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life. He is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself. Chief Seattle, 1854

• The conceptual age demands that we see the connections between diverse, and seemingly separate, disciplines. Daniel H. Pink, Vice President Al Gore’s chief speech writer from 1995-1997

• Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season. Heraclitus of Ephesus

• Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. David Bohm

• The most important thing going forward is to break the boundaries between people so we can operate as a single intelligence. David Bohm

• Amos [Tversky] and I shared the wonder of together owning a goose that could lay golden eggs – a joint mind that was better than our separate minds. Daniel Kahnemann, Nobel Memorial prize laureate, 2002

• I have such a feeling of solidarity with everything alive that it doesn’t seem important to know where the individual ends or begins. Albert Einstein

• As we let go of the machine model of work, we begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways, to appreciate wholeness, and to design organizations that honor and make use of the totality of who we are. Margaret Wheatley, management consultant, made studies on organizational behavior, Leadership and the New Science, chapter "Leadership in a New Era"

• My country is the world. My countrymen are mankind. Thomas Paine, Common Sense, bestselling pamphlet, blueprint of modern democracy, 1776

• Completeness is also a key concept in mathematics […] If you want to say where something is located, you need three numbers; if you use only two, your knowledge remains incomplete. And if you want to locate an event [what], you need four numbers – three spatial coordinates plus time. The notion of completeness is central in science and I believe it is central to the present human predicament. Robert Fuller Ph.D., A Better Game Than War. Understanding the origin of our "fear of the other," may lead us to the elimination of war, Magazine In Context, The Foundations Of Peace (IC#4), David Hoffman, pg. 18, Autumn 1983

• If these cyclic forces are real, there is a much greater degree of interrelationship within nature than was previously realized, since the same cycles appear in many different natural and social sciences. The implications are one of wholeness instead of the emphasis we so often see upon smaller and smaller sections of knowledge. Edward R. Dewey (1895-1978) economist, studied cycles in economics and other fields, Cycles Magazine, About Cycles Research Institute, Cycles Research Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Cycles, July 1967

• Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social reformist, pacifist

• The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the West. Erwin Schrödinger, cited by Amaury de Riencourt in The Eye of Shiva: Eastern Mysticism and Science, 1981

• The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. Erwin Schrödinger, Mind and Matter, 1958

• There is obviously only one alternative, namely the unification of minds or consciousnesses. Their multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is only one mind. Erwin Schrödinger, Mind and Matter, 1958

• Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind. Erwin Schrödinger, cited in "The Oneness of Mind", as translated in Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists, edited by Ken Wilber, 1984

• At the highest level of satori from which people return, the point of consciousness becomes a surface or a solid which extends throughout the whole known universe. This used to be called fusion with the Universal Mind or God. In more modern terms you have done a mathematical transformation in which your center of consciousness has ceased to be a traveling point and has become a surface or solid of consciousness. [...] It was in this state that I experienced "myself" as melded and intertwined with hundreds of billions of other beings in a thin sheet of consciousness that was distributed around the galaxy. A "membrane". John C. Lilly and E. J. Gold, Tanks for the Memories. Floatation Tank Talks, Gateways, Nevada City, CA, 1995

• "I'm still defeated by the conundrum of God. But I have the devil clear."
  "And what's he?"
  "Not seeing whole."
  John Fowles, English novelist, Daniel Martin, 1977

Balance

• All saying must be balanced by unsaying, and knowing must be humbled by unknowing. Without this balance, religion invariably becomes arrogant, exclusionary, and even violent.
  All light must be informed by darkness, and all success by suffering. St. John of the Cross called this Luminous Darkness, St. Augustine, the Paschal Mystery or the necessary Passover [...] Father Richard Rohr, OFM, The Naked Now. Learning to See as the Mystics see, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2009