Quotes About Realization

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

The man of reflection discovers Truth; but the one who enjoys it and makes use of its heavenly gifts is the man of action.

What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him. Overnight, she'd become a fool.

Some people never meet the right person in life. They, on the other hand, met when they were too young to realize what they had found in each other. And when they did at last see the light, it was too late.

I'm surprised when people are not me. I'm shocked when they are not them.

you are always lost when the first recognition is a misrecognition

bad that the lesson had come too late for the two of them.

Civilization is perhaps nothing but a process of finding out what you cannot have.

It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

But in my experience as a teacher, enlightenment usually sneaks up on people. Sometimes they don't quite realize how enlightened they've become over time because they have gradually acclimatized to it.

At eighteen I thought I knew everything, then at thirty, I realized that I knew nothing--and possibly never would, which depressed me until I noticed that no one else knew anything either.

When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

Caro was coming round to the fact of unhappiness: to a realization that Dora created unhappiness and the she was bound to Dora.

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

Well, success does not mean doing well.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

You know, I think the consciousness of the higher self and the eternal self is determined by, how much fear, you have, or allow yourself to have. And that's what I've been working on. The older I get, the more I realize, that what, it's, Love versus Fear, not Love versus Hate. 1march2017 interview, James Corden TV show USA

Realisation' means it is an experience. Outside forces cannot make me feel successful. I have to feel it within myself. It is internal not external. That is why what often appears success externally may be total hollowness internally.

Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy goal. – Earl Nightingale

This is..." "You completely forgot what day it is, didn't you?" "Eh?" "It's your birthday!!" "Huh... It is? Oh!" "Idiot!

You do not say, "This is enlightenment," or "That is not right practice." Even in wrong practice, when you realize it and continue, there is right practice.