Quotes About Realization

La felicità non è che il compimento

It got late, very early.

What do you call that moment when we let go of the conviction, albeit illusory, that life will only grow larger? That the horizon will always expand?

There was something wrong; nobody else had to tell me. Writing it down made me see it. I'd told myself, as if writing to another person.

Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.

So the catch is that you are programmed to choose the ego over Essence until a time comes in your evolution for the realization of the truth to surface.

Thoughts are conditioning, so when you believe your thoughts, you become the conditioned self and lose touch with your real self. As a result of the distance from thoughts developed by meditation, the real self comes back into the picture. The real you is what is aware of thoughts and of everything else. The ego can't be aware of thoughts because the ego is, in essence, itself a thought. The ego belongs to the conditioned self and has no awareness of its own.

And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

The beast is redundant. It's been us all along.

When something happened that was everything to you you realized it was nothing to everything else.

It was a terrible refreshment, his plain way, the simple words, the absence of strategy. It made you realize how much of your life you spent not being like that. It made you realize what a waste not being like that was.

shoved by shock too young into the truth that nothing meant anything.

You never fully appreciate what you had until you don't have it anymore

The world isn't against you, Eddie," he continued. "You are against you. You have to realize that no one is meant to carry the load alone. We're all in this together. Once you realize that you can ask for help, your whole world will change.

Until that moment it had never seriously occurred to him that they were susceptible to the common suffering.

Then, as if in answer to a riddle posed years before, you will realize that this growth came from seeds you planted or watered or carried from place to place—and you'll be rewarded in the way that we as communal beings need most: you'll know you made a difference.

Having lived his life in the belief that something great could be just around every corner, did he realize for the first time that no more corners could be turned? p.18

Never wish to 'live the way you wish' if you haven't yet created your world.

The inferior man hates the truth. That is no tragedy. The tragedy is, he isn't aware he does.

There is no external condition we have to meet to realize our aspirations. We just need to be what we are.

Todo lo que ha ocurrido es sólo una parábola. Lo que es inalcanzable se convierte en suceso. Lo que es indescriptible se ha realizado aquí. Lo eterno-femenino nos permite avanzar.

Man is always more than he can know of himself consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

La peor soledad que hay es darse cuenta de que la gente es idiota