Radical Wholeness Quotes

“This bears relevance to the issue of our wholeness. Your nervous system is imprinted with the rhythms of the mechanical sounds in which it is immersed—your cells tugged by the frenzy of its jittery beat. You may not even realize how long it’s been since they’ve come truly to rest until you move so far into nature that you escape all audible evidence of machinery. If you can remain there long enough, you may feel the undercurrent of driving, repetitive white noise slowly leave your body, making room for the spacious orchestra of the wide world around you.”
― Philip Shepherd, Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being

“How would our lives and our world change if we ceased hoping that technology would save us from ourselves?”
― Philip Shepherd, Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being

“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Philip Shepherd, Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being

“Everything in the cosmos participates in the whole, belongs to the whole, and expresses the whole. Nothing can break away from it, because wholeness is all there is.”
― Philip Shepherd, Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being