Quotes About Realization

Then something rang a bell in his mind. What

Rigid, glaring, set in a frown, his face was so much what it had been in life that the maid spoke to him three times before she realized he was dead.

I gazed at him. He was old enough to know that few things were fair. Most five-year-olds had already discovered it.

unexpected regret. Watched him until the consciousness went out of his eyes, and they were simply open but seeing nothing.

deep down, in some vague, mixed way I had been letting myself hope that he didn't really care for her, that it was me he loved and that kissing me would have made him realise it...

Each moment of zazen is equally wholeness of practice, equally wholeness of realization. This is not only practice while sitting, it is like a hammer striking emptiness: before and after, its exquisite peal permeates everywhere. How can it be limited to this moment?

The time of our delusion does not obstruct the time of our realization. Our practice is not in order to attain realization. Practice itself is the actualization of realization.

Me doy cuenta ahora de que el primer día apenas llegué a mirar. Creía estar mirando, pero solo estaba percibiendo un mero barrunto de lo que hay en estos cuadros. Ahora es cuando estoy empezando a mirar.

Even after you think you've seen all the ways violence can surprise a man, along comes something you never imagined.

How old were you when you first realized your father was a jerk?" "Twelve and a half," Grappa said.

She ran water from the tap and seemed to notice it. It was the first time she'd ever noticed this.

The first step toward personal freedom is awareness. We need to be aware that we are not free in order to be free. We need to be aware of what the problem is in order to solve the problem.

the first edition of this book, then called POET, The Psychology of Everyday Things, I started with these lines: "This is the book I always wanted to write, except I didn't know it." Today I do know it, so I simply say, "This is the book I always wanted to write.

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

Barnard suddenly realized, with gloomy introspection, that "I had the legal system of the United States to thank for the honor of being the first surgeon in the world to have done a heart transplant.

I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

It's a beautiful moment when somebody wakes up to this reality, when they realize God created them so other people could enjoy them, not just endure them.

Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in.

The purpose of an external problem in a story is to manifest an internal problem.

Here are five questions most likely to generate the best response for a customer testimonial: 1.?What was the problem you were having before you discovered our product? 2.?What did the frustration feel like as you tried to solve that problem? 3.?What was different about our product? 4.?Take us to the moment when you realized our product was actually working to solve your problem. 5.?Tell us what life looks like now that your problem is solved or being solved.

we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.

Step 3: Result