Quotes About Realization

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

Your union with God in Christ is instant and effortless. It happened on the cross and was realized the first moment you believed. It is from this vantage point of being "in Christ" that all other doctrines of the church must be built.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

We've come into this life fully equipped as a buddha, an awakened being, and we'll go out fully equipped as a buddha, realized or not.

When we realize the ground of being, we take responsibility directly, because what we realize is that what we do and what happens to us are the same thing.

Focus your entire energy very quietly, very softly, on awakening and realization.

The way to realize is to open. The more you open, the more you know, and soften, and love.

Your life belongs to what you have awakened to.

The realization of what was happening meant that I had to shift mental gears. There is, after all, fighting. And then there is fighting. It's a point I continually try to bring home to people in Yamashita's dojo. They don't really get it—it's something you have to experience for yourself. But it's not something I wish on anyone.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person.

You had life by the tail and didn't know it.

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear.

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

A big part of life is realizing what you're good at.

Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

Live life as a series of revelations

The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.

I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.

The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.