Quotes About Realization

A book is not completed till it's read.

Be so good as to cease to cast yourself in fictions. Pinch yourself, or slap yourself across the face if that's what it takes, but understand, please, that you are nonfictional, and this is real life.

We fell into the love that had been lying beneath our love like water below ice, and understood that while we had been having a lot of fun together we had only been skating on the surface, and now we were in as deep as we could go.

There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost.

Your whole picture of the world broke, he said, and you felt like you had gone mad. Yes. And I didn't even notice. Boys. They notice nothing.

Mr. Eagle, you are not a realized man. That is your weakness and also your power. Before one realizes oneself one has the optimism of ignorance. It can be the saving of one's life. Once realized, one faces the terror of knowing what it is you are and have done...the realized man can have a profound effect on the world about him; he must bear the consequences, and guilt, of that as well...

Trouble in a marriage," he later wrote, "is like monsoon water accumulating on a flat roof. You don't realize it's up there, but it gets heavier and heavier, until one day, with a great crash, the whole roof falls in on your head.

Trouble in a marriage is like monsoon water accumulating on a flat roof. You don't realize it's up there, but it gets heavier and heavier, until one day, with a great crash, the whole roof falls in on your head.

It was on the Wednesday after the great storm that Mr. Geronimo first noticed that his feet no longer touched the ground.

Many truths about ourselves will be discovered in consciousness directly or not discovered at all.

The deepest repentance and humility and our own frailty and weakness must be realized before we can know God's strength.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.

...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.

If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.

And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.

Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.