Quotes About Realization

It was about acceptance, he thought. About realizing no one is perfect and no one can expect to change someone else. Which

War had turned out to be far more

I don't need to believe, I know.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...

Every human life contains a potential. It that potential is not fulfilled, that life was wasted.

The shadow can be realized only through a relation to a partner, and anima and animus only through a relation to a partner of the opposite sex, because only in such a relation do their projections become operative.

With a truly tragic delusion," Carl Jung noted, "these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

What is not brought to consciousness, comes to us as fate.

Until you allow the unconscious to become conscious, it will rise up to you as your life and you will call it your fate

neurosis is…a defence…or an attempt, somewhat dearly paid for, to escape from the inner voice and hence from the vocation…Behind the neurotic perversion is concealed his vocation, his destiny: the growth of personality, the full realization of the life-will that is born with the individual. It is the man without amor fati [love of fate] who is the neurotic; he, truly, has missed his vocation.

The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light, and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight.

We have come back from Jerusalem where we found not what we sought!

I realize this now, but I didn't know it then." Of course, if it is in their heads now, so was it then. What they mean is that they only now accept the significance

Suddenly I realized that it was my job to complete myself through my power of loving me.

For a long time, I just complained that "women are all the same." After I saw the same patterns in half a dozen different relationships, I finally woke up and realized it was I who was "all the same." I realized I was committed to getting involved with women who were distant and who would eventually abandon me. Seeing that I created my painful dramas out of my unconscious commitments was a big wake-up moment for me.

and finally I found myself, when she lost me.........:(

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

There's a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Ever hear the one about that dog that spent its life chasing cars and finally caught one—and had no idea what to do with it? I'm that dog.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.

Allyson meanwhile is remembering. Why this person? All the things she has told herself, or other people have told her - infatuation or Paris or good acting or lust - no longer hold water, because she remembers so viscerally and feels it anew. It's not any of that. It's not even him. Or all him. It's her. The way she can be with him.

it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

I've come to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it. Because when she cut off contact, yeah, I knew what had happened. But it took me a long, long time to believe it. Some days, I still don't quite believe it.