The Lexicon
Oneness and the absolute
Wholeness
Wholeness is the truth that reality is undivided, and that the fragments we perceive are abstractions laid over a seamless ground. Nothing exists in isolation; each thing is a fold in a single cloth, and to wound one part is to disturb the whole. To live from wholeness is to act as a participant in an unbroken movement rather than a fragment defending itself against the rest.
Carried by 7 teachers · across 5 traditions · 5 quotes
The traditions hold that health, holiness, and wholeness spring from the same root, for to be whole is to be at one with the all. The seeker who realizes this stops striving to assemble a self out of broken pieces and instead rests in the completeness already present. What was sought is discovered to have been the seeker's own nature, never partial, never missing anything.
In their words
The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion.David Bohm
The map is not the territory, and the name is not the thing named.Gregory Bateson
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.Aristotle
Tat tvam asi — That thou art.Chandogya Upanishad
For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony.Sri Aurobindo