Quotes About Epiphany

No one else, however much you love and adore the person, sees the true significance of your private epiphanies. The secret belongs to you, with you, in you. In the title Shiva Sutra, the word Shiva means "God" and the word Sutra means "thread," so quite deliberately the reader is being shown tiny threads that lead back to the eternal source.

No one else, however much you love and adore the person, sees the true significance of your private epiphanies. The secret belongs to you, with you, in you.

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

Chapter 144

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

You can hear something over and over and over and over and over and still not really hear it. It does not click. No lo comprendo. Until you're ready to hear it. And then it is defeaning.

Eyeing this tableau, I had a sudden epiphany—I understood why Thomas had come to Rockford: for all his fund-raising abilities and management abilities and entrepreneurial genius, his dexterity as a salesman of ideas and gift for answering the collective prayers of the Zeitgeist, Thomas Keene wanted something else entirely from his life. He wanted to be a director.

and spoken my name for the first time.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

When you're teaching a hard concept and the students all have puzzled looks on their faces and then suddenly you can see that 'aha' moment, that they got it, that's just an incredible thing.

Moonshine. I get it now.

I'm not usually sold on epiphanies. I am more interested in the opposite experience: not those rare moments of startling insight or realization, but-what I suspect are more common-those sudden flashes of anxious confusion and bewilderment.

Practice the precept: find without seeking

Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

On a day like today I am stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

First you get the feeling, then you figure out why.

Waiting. For that missing seed crystal of thought that would suddenly solidify everything.

but it seems to me there is something beyond words--any words--all words--something that always escapes you when you try to grasp it--and yet leaves something in your hand which you wouldn't have had if you hadn't reached for it.

Softly Louis asked, When did you figure this out? Some time ago. It did not seem important to our survival.