Being integrated, in the dictionary sense, means being unified. I think of it as being a little more dynamic— educationally, for instance, being organically interacting. In either sense, integration implies involvement of the whole person, not just the selected parts of him; integration, for instance, of kinds of knowledge (history comes to life in the art of any period); integration of knowledge with thinking— that means holding opinions; and then integration within the whole personality— and that implies holding some unified philosophical view, an attitude toward life. And then there must be the uniting of this personality, this view, with the creative capacities of the person so that his acts and his works and his thinking and his knowledge will be a unity. Such a state of being, curiously enough, invokes the word integrity in its basic sense; being unified, being integrated.
Ben Shahn, from The Shape of Content.
