Quotes About Realization

Por eso, no estoy asombrado de que, a medida que Avellaneda se fue enterando de cómo había sido Isabel, yo también me haya ido enterando de cómo había sido yo.

Me tomó de un brazo y me dijo, casi apoyándose en mí: ¿Sabés lo que te pasa? Que no vas a ninguna parte.

It's surreal to know my dreams are coming true.

I'd figured out that a real life didn't mean attaining my heart's desire, but knowing it, meant not the satisfaction, but the longing. Knowing what you love and why, I found out, is as real as it gets.

It was an answer I should have savored; instead, it gave rise to that moment. You know what I mean. The moment in a relationship in which at the same time you discover you've been floating in air for five and a half weeks, you also discover that your feet have dropped a little closer to the earth.

I won't gush about his appearance, except to say that he was beautiful in the way certain handcrafted wooden objects are beautiful—so seamless, smooth, curved, lustrous, so fully realized and self-contained that it only strikes you seconds later and with the force of a lightning bolt: "Oh my God, that's a chair!" At which point, you sit down and want to stay forever.

They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.

The next day, Mary walked through the rubble of their destroyed house. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized how different those two conditions were.

This, then, was hunger. This was what his mother had meant when she had said, "We'll all go hongry." He had laughed, for he had thought he had known hunger, and it was faintly pleasant. He knew now that it had been only appetite. This was another thing.

I met his gaze, but nothing else needed to be said. We both knew we were fucked.

It's uh, pathetic. To realize at my age that I actually had promise, a life of passion in front of me, and that I threw it away for the security of what? Numbness. It's

I knew you were meant to kiss girls, but there was something else that you were meant to do first, and I didn't know what that was.

It's like Thomas Aquinas told Charlemagne in an overpriced bistro in Nice: "You never realize how much shit you have until you have to move it all.

The mind that realizes its own Buddha nature is said to be like clear space—it is empty and all-pervasive but also vividly aware.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." —DORIS LESSING Ordinary

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." —DORIS LESSING

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Honestly, I've never felt better in my life. It's like somebody flicked a switch and I've suddenly realized how crazy I'd been acting all those years. All that talk about interfacing with an ultra-dimensional Phoenix deity – it was absolutely insane.

What I had not realized then, but now know only too well, is that sparks carry within them the wish to be relieved of the burden of brightness. And that is why I no longer write, and why the dark is is my freedom and my happiness.

Humanity is walking on the gold mine of the kingdom of God, but does not know it.

Spirituality is about seeing, waking up out of a deep sleep, remembering what

We touch. For the time in my life, I understand perfection.

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

It was a sobering experience.