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Quotes About Realization

Just when you've overcome the grief, you realise you are left with the loneliness.
~ Howard Jacobson
I didn't know you could break your finger just hanging up clothes. God Almighty, you situate your hand wrong between a blouse and a clothespin and everything suddenly changes. What a stupid life this is." "Did
~ Unknown
The important thing is to realize one's potential here and now. We are not to rely on a desire to escape from one's responsibilities of being God's people, here and now.
~ Howard Storm
Marvelous, marvelous! All sentient beings have the Tathagata's wisdom and virtue, but they fail to realize it because they cling to deluded thoughts and attachments.
~ Hsing Yun
I started to think of friends I could lean on for some help, but, as always happened when I attempted this kind of social audit, I realised that far too many of them were abroad, dead, married to people who disapproved of me, or weren't really my friends, now that I came to think of it.
~ Hugh Laurie
A form of consciousness beyond the veils of discursive thought, a space forever present for those who seek it, not in some far-off wilderness, but in our inner most hearts. When that realization dawns in the depths of one's being, the world effortlessly transforms into that which was sought.
~ Unknown
And then, believe it or not, it came to me for the first time that all the difference was caused by me.
~ Unknown
Few at this point had the foresight to realize that the path laid out by Providence led into the abyss.
~ Ian Kershaw
He fell to his knees, and as the twin arcologies reduced him to nothing, he also came out of his annihilated anonymity to realize that he was special, he was unique, that his light shone brighter than all the million glowworm windows, for he alone knew nothing.
~ Unknown
I am cold," he said. The three words shattered. Before them he had not known that he could speak, that there even existed a thing called speech. "I am cold, and I can speak," he said. The words sounded good to him.
~ Unknown
I've just worked out what the music on the speakers is," he said. "It's John Martyn, Over The Hill." "And ?" "And nothing. It's just, maybe I'm not there yet.
~ Ian Rankin
That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.
~ Unknown
that was when I realized that I was done. I was finished breaking the law.
~ Unknown
It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?
~ Idries Shah
Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.
~ Idries Shah
One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.
~ Idries Shah
When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge
~ Idries Shah
Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.
~ Idries Shah
EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
~ Idries Shah
Learn how much knowledge is needed before we can see how ignorant we are.
~ Idries Shah
Cuando te des cuenta de la diferencia entre el contenedor y el contenido, tendrás conocimiento.
~ Idries Shah
Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.
~ Idries Shah
Uno de los grandes Sufis dijo: "Un santo es un santo a menos que sepa que lo es".
~ Idries Shah
Whoever knows God, does not (any longer) say "God".
~ Idries Shah