Quotes About Realization

Something more is necessary, however, than merely to see the picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Wisdom is knowing what you can accept.

Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn't struck you. 8 Here is one thing that eventually struck me: March 19, 1938, a Saturday.

We keep coming back and coming backTo the real: to the hotel instead of the hymnsThat fall upon it out of the wind.

And one trembles to be so understood and, at last,To understand, as if to know becameThe fatality of seeing things too well.

There is a path leading to the realization of Nirvana. But Nirvana is not the result of this path. You may get to the mountain along a path, but the mountain is not the result, not an effect of the path.

You may see the light, but the light is not the result of your eyesight.

The freedom of thought allowed by the Buddha is unheard of elsewhere in the history of religions. This freedom is necessary because, according to the Buddha, man's emancipation depends on his own realization of Truth, and not on the benevolent grace of a god or any external power as a reward for his obedient good behaviour.

M]an's emancipation depends on his own realization of Truth, and not on the benevolent grace of a god or any external power as a reward for his obedient good behaviour.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Your greatest strength is knowing what you cannot do.

You'll see it when you believe it.

Wayne I once thought I had mono for an entire year, It turned out I was just really bored.

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Unlike a person, a corporation does not age. It does not arrive, as most persons finally do, at a realization of the shortness and smallness of human lives; it does not come to see the future as the lifetime of the children and grandchildren of anybody in particular.

and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.

You won't get what you want, Rory Swenson, until you see what you need.

She stands there, staring down at the floor, the soda she had just grabbed from the shelf now dangling from her hand. "Omigod

But I think I'm too old to dream now. In a month and a half, I'll be twenty-nine.

there is something about understanding that comforts me, even if I don't like what I understand.

There'd been so many things she'd thought she'd known when in fact she'd barely understood the smallest thing.

The seed that decides to grow, reaches the fruits."