Quotes About Realization

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Unfortunately, there is little evidence that the Church, so far at least, except among relatively small groupings, has adequately realized the internal renewal that the Council hoped for, which was primarily a renewal in holiness.

She urges us to realize that to be united with the Lord in such a manner is a great gift and privilege. Her advice: be careful, be appreciative, be faithful, be a friend.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

If you hold this feeling of 'I' long enough and strongly enough, the false 'I' will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent 'I', consciousness itself

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.

You are already that which you seek

A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now

42. The colour of milk is one, the colours of the cows many, So is the nature of knowledge, observe the wise ones. Beings of various marks and attributes, Are like the cows, their realisation is the same; This is an example we should know.

Thoughts of bondage and of freedom last only as long as one feels, 'I am bound'. When one enquires of oneself, 'Who am I, the bound one?' the Self, Eternal, ever free, remains. The thought of bondage goes; and with it goes the thought of freedom too.

What introverted mind calls peace, outside as power is shown; Those who have reached and found this truth, their unity have known.

Finally there comes a stage when a person feels helpless notwithstanding the sadhanas. He is unable to pursue the much-cherished sadhana also. It is then that Gods power is realized. The self reveals itself.

there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.

One can know oneself only with one's own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else's. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?

Lady with fair countenance! Understand that one who is not able to realise the Truth in his Heart by this knowledge of spiritual wisdom known as Kala Jnana, can never attain it even by studying countless crores ofsastras (scriptures) spread out like the sky.

Divine Grace is essential for realization. It leads one to God-realization. But such Grace is vouchsafed only to him who is a true devotee or a yogin, who has striven hard and ceaselessly on the path towards freedom. (p. 26)