Quotes About Realization

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.

Hell itself is truth known too late

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.