Quotes About Realization

They were your friends? Yes, they were my friends. And they will leave you to suffer alone? Now I see it. And until this, were they friends you could trust? I could trust them. I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind of friends that a good man could choose, upright, hard-working, obeying the law? Tell me, were they such friends? And now they leave you alone? Did you not see it before? I saw it.

That's two years of me living for someone else. How sad is that?

For the most part, the people who are currently in Satan's kingdom don't realize where they really are, because it is a kingdom of darkness, and they can't "see" it. In contrast, the kingdom of God is the kingdom of light; therefore, those who are in His kingdom know where they are.

As Joseph Campbell wrote about middle age, 'There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.

Given racism's critical role in providing an outlet for white frustrations caused by economic exploitation and political manipulation, one wonders whether American society could survive as we know it if large numbers of whites ever realized what racism costs them and decided to do something about it.

Do you ever have those moments where suddenly you make a quantum jump in understanding, where you see the world so differently that you cannot imagine how you could have perceived it any other way before? Do you have those times when this new understanding makes you feel as though up until that moment you must have been deluded or asleep or just plain stupid? I

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true, and thus how doubtful were all those that I had subsequently built upon them.

Only when there is undiluted compassion for everyone, even our worst enemies, is ego truly conquered. Realization

Only when humans realize that they have been blessed with the intellectual wherewithal to outgrow animal needs and fears, will they truly evolve and discover their potential.

If they became possessive and demanded exclusive attention, he disappeared completely, filling them with great misery and longing. They realized that bliss comes when love is shared with all.

To let our potential be realized without deriving our identity from it, or without denying its existence, is the hallmark of wisdom.

I realize the futility of rage and know the power of forgiveness.' Enlightened

Realization occurs only when samsara is witnessed, not reacted to. This is moksha.

It's not so bad, when it finally happens. You think the world is going to collapse around you but it doesn't. You can see yourself clearly again. You realise that the fear was the worst thing.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

You should know that you're exactly the person you think you are." Elliot turned away as the tear escaped. That's what she was afraid of.

You should know you're exactly the person you think you are.

The tiniest of earthquakes seemed to rustle through him, the kind that shakes petals off flowers, as Justen became aware of the gulf between what he was supposed to feel for Persis Blake and what he actually did.

And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.

seen that quick alteration of her features

Dylan Geer! Why would you…oh, you must

My heart didn't break into a thousand pieces after he left. Instead, I realized all the things he didn't do. He didn't want to hear my stories. He didn't ask me questions. He didn't smile when I was talking to him. He didn't hug me out of the blue to make me feel good. His hugs were always a preamble to something else and after he was gone, I wondered if he ever knew me at all.

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.