Quotes About Realization

As Jung emphasized: "Until you make the unconscious, conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.

It was as if he had stood me squarely before the world, removed the blindfold, and ordered me to open my eyes.

He had no idea there even was a before until he crashed hard into the after.

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.

Why must we be always seeking for the lost Child? Why must we be always feeling the pain of loss? If we did not, we should not realise that our idols are not God, are not Christ. Bad as they are, they match our limitations; and if they could content us, we should never know the real beauty of Christ:we should not become whole.

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

Qué poco sabemos de lo que somos! ¡Como menos lo que podemos ser!

When you come to the realization that the totality of yourself, what you have treasured, what your friends have admired, is totally useless, you will suffer, but we say, that it is only from this point that there is any hope for your becoming. We are so incredibly small, mere specks in our whole solar system.

Some hours ago we had discovered a giant. Now we had discovered a man. The giant was the man, but being a man he could no longer be a giant. The man had undermined the giant.

A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.

He was a pitiful thing. He had always been a pitiful thing. Why had she never seen that before? There was a hollow place inside her where her fear had been.

He was surprised at how low the candle had burned. Had the bean-and-bacon soup been today or yesterday? Yesterday. It must have been yesterday. The realization made him yawn. Jon would be wondering what had become of him, though Maester Aemon would no doubt understand. Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is wrong that you don't know how to live and you will never know

Behavior is nothing more than a belated announcement of a previously accepted thought as one's own.

The spiritual life for Teresa and John has nothing to do with actually getting closer to God. It is instead a journey of consciousness. Union with God is neither acquired nor received; it is realized, and in that sense it is something that can be yearned for, sought after, and—with God's grace—found.

Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realisation that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.

El sentido común nos dice por qué: si no está obteniendo lo que desea, es claro que cualquier cosa que haya realizado hasta este punto no está funcionando.

Benedict's resignation was a selfless act since he had come to realize he was not capable of leading the modern church and making the tough decisions that were needed. "It wasn't one thing, but a whole combination of them," concluded Paolo Rodari, Il Foglio's veteran Vatican reporter. Vatileaks, said Rodari, "was a constant drumbeat on the Pope."33

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.