Quotes About Realization

Through the whole spiritual process, what we learn is to disillusion this false ego. The annihilation of this false ego is its disillusionment. When once it is disillusioned, then the true ego realizes its own merit. It is in this realization that the soul enters the kingdom of God. It is in this realization that the soul is born again, a birth which opens the doors of heaven.

Für den Menschen ist es das größte Privileg, zu einem geeigneten Instrument für Gott zu werden, und solange er dies nicht begreift, hat er den wahren Sinn seines Lebens nicht verstanden. Die ganze Tragödie im Leben der Menschen ist ihre Unkenntnis dieser Tatsache. Von dem Moment an wo ein Mensch dies versteht, lebt er das wirkliche Leben. (S. 178)

To attain spirituality is to realize that the whole universe is one symphony in which every individual is one note. His happiness lies in becoming perfectly harmonious with the symphony of the universe.

Often, it's not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don't know how to be.

i know they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder. but sometimes, absence can also reveal the waning of once fond feelings. time passes and it's a surprise to realize that you haven't missed him, or her, or the place or the job that once felt like a match.

The more I have, The more I realize that all that matters is the small discoveries, the little interactions, the improvised, messy, glued-together moments that lie at the centre of our happiness. Everything else is just a distraction.

A sky has to be lost for a sea to be truly found.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be. —Alan Watts

I'll never forget seeing that familiar smile or look of amazement creep across a student's face when she has just connected with a high level of energy or has had some type of experience she never before realized was possible.

Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.

The Ashawala'i call that feeling 'being struck by lightning.

It never occurred to me that others had done this before me.

My God, it can recognise another human being when it's hit over the head with one.

My God...it can think.

I was merely going to say that I hope you realise that guilt is a poor foundation for a life, without other motivations beside it.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

THERE ARE IDIOTS. Look around.

And this, then, is the job of the searchers and the dreamers: to reach deeper and deeper into the dream. Peeling away one layer after another. Until we realize that the voice speaking our dreams comes from within us and from without at the same time.11 Until we see at last that the story is true. Not necessarily because it happened in a particular place at a particular time, but because it is within us. It always was. It issues from us. It is ours. The whole ancient hierarchy of meanings.

I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thought: every time he embraced a little rosy-cheeked child he longed to remove its cheeks with a razor.

Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? You hadn't realized it. And you notice that the sun has set already, the day gone before you knew it -- and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape. That's retirement.

Try to comprehend the unity of all; there is one God, and all are one in Him. If we can but bring home to ourselves the unity of that Eternal Love, there will be no more sorrow for us; for we shall realize, not for ourselves alone but for those whom we love, that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, and that in Him we live and move and have our being, whether it be in this world or in the world to come.

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

leary timothy iii

Mellow is the man who knows what he's been missing