Quotes About Realization

I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming.

Why do you laugh?" he said. "Because at a price I now see that which I couldn't see," I said.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born; every thing impossible until we see a success.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Spiritual Laws," Essays and Lectures . (Library of America November 15, 1983)

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.

To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible." And

Sooner or later the realization comes that nothing we can think of is going to do it.

As they say in the Sikh religion—Once you realize God knows everything, you're free. I had been through many years of psychoanalysis and still I had managed to keep private places in my head—I wouldn't say they were big, labeled categories, but they were certain attitudes or feelings that were still very private. And suddenly I realized that he knew everything that was going on in my head, all the time, and that he still loved me. Because who we are is behind all that.

Jewel the Unicorn] cried.- I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this.... Come further up, come further in!

What God wanted him [Job] to realize was that this same God who brought such pattern and beauty into a world He had fashioned out of nothing could also bring a pattern and beauty out of Job's brokenness. The universe is both complex and intelligible, and Job was reminded of that. There is intelligence behind the design,as there is also intelligence in helping us cope with suffering.

Process is the amount of time we give ourselves to feel safe enough to admit what we already know is true.

I'm ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.

I'm really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don't remember!

It's just...It's just, if I didn't see these windows until today, what else did I miss?

I don't belong with you. I've been an idiot all the way