Quotes About Realization

That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

Big things are often just small things that are noticed.

Ivan Klima dice: casi nada se parece tanto a la muerte como el amor realizado. Cada aparición de cualquiera de los dos es única pero definitiva, irrepetible, inapelable e impostergable.

One cannot seek happiness, for it is the result of realizing the Truth. The personality, which has security and pleasure as its aims, cannot be happy. Pursuing pleasure or safety will entail covering up any unpleasant or frightening truths. This automatically closes Joy. For Joy is the radiance of the heart when Truth is appreciated.

Love, compassion, kindness, and generosity change their function from being motivations for practice to becoming expressions of realization.

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

Sometimes you really want to say Duh, but you can't. It's a part of growing up, I guess.

But in the languor of disease and the weariness of old age, the pleasures of the vain and empty distinctions of greatness disappear. To one, in this situation, they are no longer capable of recommending those toilsome pursuits in which they had formerly engaged him. In his heart he curses ambition, and vainly regrets the ease and the indolence of youth, pleasures which are fled for ever, and which he has foolishly sacrificed for what, when he has got it, can afford him no real satisfaction.

I learned that I wasn't happy. It's a terrifying thing to admit. It puts everyone around you in a state of paralysis because they think that they are somehow responsible for your sadness and can fix it. Of course they cannot. I know happiness exists somewhere and if I knew where, I would go to it and claim it. I realize I have spent my life reacting to things and not initiating them.

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying attention.

But truthfully? Let me tell you what I honestly think. I think, maybe he hasn't even noticed that I'm gone. But. I have.

La gente si accorge solo di quando te ne vai; se resti non se ne accorgono. E' come quando si sente davvero un ronzio continuo solo dopo che ha smesso.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

A momentous but until then overlooked fact was making itself apparent: I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island. It

Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

As David lifted a suitcase onto the conveyor belt, he came to an unexpected and troubling realisation: that he was bringing himself with him on his holiday. Whatever the qualities of the Dimitra Residence, they were going to be critically undermined by the fact that he would be in the villa as well.

You ask whether the Orient is all I imagined it to be. Yes, it is—and more than that, it extends far beyond the narrow idea I had of it. I have found, clearly delineated, everything that was hazy in my mind.'   8.

A momentus but until then overlooked fact was making its first appearance: that I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island.

A momentous but until then overlooked fact was making its first appearance: that I had inadvertently brought myself with me to the island.

It is you," Ren murmured.

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

Only when the traveler communicates with the city of departure does he realize he has entered a new domain of time...It is then the traveler learns that he is cut off in time, as well as in space. No traveler goes back to his city of origin.