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Quotes About Realization

As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
~ Karine Vanasse
The seed of Buddhahood, the capacity to wake up and understand things as they are, is also present in each of us.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The only way to understand fully is to become the object of our understanding.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
WE BELIEVE THAT happiness is possible only in the future. That is why the practice "I have arrived" is very important. The realization that we have already arrived, that we don't have to travel any further, that we are already here, can give us peace and joy. The conditions for our happiness are already sufficient. We only need to allow ourselves to be in the present moment, and we will be able to touch them.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We need to practice mindfulness daily in order to fulfill our aspiration. We need to patiently pursue our aspiration, but we don't lose the present moment, we enjoy the present moment and we use it to realize our deepest desire
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The Buddha said, "When conditions are sufficient, the thing manifests, and when they are not sufficient, the thing remains hidden.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Again and again we try to escape ourselves, but we fail in our efforts, constantly run our heads into the wall because we don't want to recognize that we can't escape ourselves, except in death.
~ Thomas Bernhard
For a long time we see only one side of a person's personality, because for reasons of self-preservation we do not wish to see any other, I thought, then suddenly we see all sides of their personality and are disgusted by them, I thought.
~ Thomas Bernhard
I took a few steps toward the kitchen window although I'd already realized I couldn't look through the kitchen window because, as already mentioned, it's covered with filth from top to bottom. Austrian kitchen windows are all totally filthy and we can't look through them and naturally it's to our greatest advantage, I thought, not to be able to look through them because then we find ourselves staring into the mouth of catastrophe, into the chaos of Austrian kitchen filth.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Parasta päättämisessä on että päättää antaa olla. Jos on mahdotonta ymmärtää, on lopetettava ymmärtäminen ja vain kuvattava. Ja koska mitään asiaa ei voi käsittää, on vain tehtävä asioista selko.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Suddenly there's an idea and it demands realization, our entire life, our entire existence consists only of such ideas demanding realization, once this process breaks off, our life breaks off, we're dead. We consist of nothing but ideas that surface inside us and that we want to realize, that we must realize, or else we're dead.
~ Thomas Bernhard
We may know for decades that someone close to us is a ridiculous person, but it's only after a lapse of decades that we suddenly see it.
~ Thomas Bernhard
I'm waiting for the end now, you know! Just as you're waiting for your end. Just as everyone's waiting for their end. Only they don't realize they're waiting and waiting for what I've always been waiting for, namely the end!
~ Thomas Bernhard
Suddenly there's an idea and it demands realization, our entire life, our entire existence consists only of such ideas demanding realization, once this process breaks off, our life breaks off, we're dead. We consist of nothing but ideas that surface inside us and that we want to realize, that we must realize, or else we're dead, so Roithamer. Every idea and and every pursuit of an idea inside us is life, so Roithamer, the lack of ideas is death.
~ Thomas Bernhard
People are often unaware of their own unawareness
~ Thomas Gilovich
I forgot the defective can be more than the whole
~ Thomas Hardy
In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked that she was, and forgot that the defective can more than the entire.
~ Thomas Hardy
How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.
~ Thomas Harris
Curious how things can work on you even when you recognize them.
~ Thomas Harris
Barney was nearly through with his workout, cooling down on a bike, when he realized he was not alone in the room.
~ Thomas Harris
And then he realized that he loved the eagle better than the sheep and that he always would and that, because he did, because it was in him to do it, he could never be perfect in the sight of God.
~ Thomas Harris
Monsters know when they are recognized, just as bores do.
~ Thomas Harris
how seldom we recognize the sounds when the bolt of our fate slides home.
~ Thomas Harris
We had come to this place to offer something to God, namely, the sacrifice of praise. I came to realize that there was more than a mere difference in phraseology between this and what I had always thought of as worship. There was a difference in vision.
~ Thomas Howard