The whole is necessarily everything, the whole world of fact and fancy, body and psyche, physical fact and spiritual truth, individual and collective, life and death, macrocosm and microcosm, conscious and unconscious, subject and object

The whole is portrayed by “Is”, the deepest word of deep ultimate reality, not shallow and partial as reasons are, but deeper and participating, possibly encompassing the Oriental concept of “being”

We ourselves were all parts of a larger whole and we could begin to feel its nature but not its size.

We could feel its nature but not its size.

– John Steinbeck, “Sea of Cortez”

The thumbnail below is Anna Passini on the Balcony of the Palazzo Priuli in Venice, painted by her husband, Ludwig Passini, in 1866.

Anna died later that year.