Quotes About Realization

I knew, I knew, but I tried to close the door on my knowing.

I would like to be able to say that I threw myself into the spirit of it all, but the truth is, I still felt a bit dazed. A bit abstracted. It's going to take time, I guess. If you've thought in a certain way for many years, if you've had a picture in your mind of how things are and that picture is suddenly shown to be faulty, well, it stands to reason that it will take a while to adjust. And during that time, you're bound to feel … disconnected

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

She learned a lot and some of the things she learned were hard to accept. She was made to realize once and for all that this earth on which they lived turning about in space did not revolve, as she had believed, for the sake of little people. "Nor for big people either," she reminded the boy when she saw his secret smile.

His internal God-inspired vision for himself was realized through the acceptance of his previously unacceptable physical vision.

Now for the first time he realized how important it had been not to admit any alternative to the hard, decent, orthodox choice which need not be regarded as a choice at all; how important not to be different.

Having a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control.

But at that moment—the moment of realization that life as I'd been living it would have to end—I felt devastation unlike any I'd ever known. The barrenness was indescribable. The emptiness that opened up in me seemed to stretch on forever; I could see no end to it, could find no source of comfort in it, could not imagine any way out.

And maybe you are starting to notice my quote on the page "Look without, and you will be fulfilled within without a doubt." I really mean that look without, without of yourself not within.

There is no alarm clock like embarassment.

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,

The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need.

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

To realize life as absolute is to be existentially amancipated from life itself in that very realization, which understands that life is not life. The same applies to death.

No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No matter who you are, we all have the ability to take advantage of this amazing and wonderful power. Once you realize this, you will then be filled with the desire to help others realize this as well. More and more people are resonating with this understanding, and this could result in a more wonderful future for mankind. (165)

Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

An egg's true value is only known when it is broken.

Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.

Lightning doesn't leave you enlightened —good to know that

The moment I saw the Count on TV…it was as if the room filled with color and I was able to understand things for the very first time.

But maybe that's what getting older is all about, right, Clark? You start to realize just how much of the world is unfair. And how few people care. It's not about justice, right? It's about power. And the people where I live…we don't have any. Not yet.

Patrick raised and lowered his eyebrows in a 'gotcha!' kind of way.

But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realised I wasn't perfectly well was the moment I realised I was still very ill indeed.