Quotes About Realization

I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been... overlooked.

You just never quite occurred out there, kid,' deLint apprises him.

You just never quite occurred out there, kid.

One, one is that you attain the goal and realize the shocking realization that attaining the goal does not complete or redeem you, does not make everything for your life "OK " as you are, in the culture, educated to assume it will do this, the goal. And then you face this fact that what you had thought would have the meaning does not have the meaning when you get it, and you are impaled by shock.

Orin, Mario, and Hal's late father was revered as a genius in his original profession without anybody ever realizing what he really turned out to be a genius at, even he himself, at least not while he was alive, which is perhaps bona-fidely tragic but also, as far as Mario's concerned, ultimately all right, if that's the way things unfolded.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

I can see myself still myself all along the way I have gone. - Lady Abundance

I thought a fellow would never cry when he got to be grown up, but it seems as if that's when a fellow starts, because that's when a fellow starts finding out about things.

I thought a fellow would never cry when he got to be a grown up, but it seems as if that's when a fellow starts, because that's when a fellow starts finding out things.

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see

Tis hatched and shall be so

William Shakespeare

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

frown and take a step back as if he'd realized that he had just stepped up to a grizzly

It was then I realized it was all too perfect.

Suddenly, he heard a horrible sound and realized it was his own voice.

El infierno es una fiesta tan maravillosa, que solo después del primer mes te das cuenta que aquello es un castigo.

The Four Noble Truths The Dharma teaches the Buddhists the ways to progress or reach nirvana.  In this light, the Dharma teaches that the journey to nirvana should involve following the Four Noble Truths referred to as Pativedhanana or the "wisdom of realization."  According to the Buddha, the four truths center around the following concepts: 1) universality of suffering; 2) origin of suffering; 3) overcoming of suffering; and 4) the suppression of suffering. The

Assuming he had knowledge and wealth to leave to his descendants was mere arrogance, Yoshiro now realized.

I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.

I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity.

You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. —Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas