Quotes About Realization

Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind and it will be flooded with light.

When the shadow is seen to be only a shadow, you stop following it. You turn around and discover the sun which was there all the time - behind your back!

In the beginning we are all floating downstream. At some point we become aware that the currents are dragging us down and that we are no longer satisfied with the status quo of human existence.

Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

I will never dream again. For I can never again forget who I am. I realized that when I couldn't escape from the pain.

But while I remained ignorant of there never having been such a tiling as human self-effort or human independence, I had not realized that all my own efforts to live a victorious life were really Satan expressing himself as me.

Los Pilotos tienen un concepto muy exagerado de su propia importancia, pensó D'mahl. ¿Y en qué los convierte eso? - Tres... dos... uno... En seres humanos.

And now I awaken, for I am both yours and mine.

Korktum. Çünkü 'demek ki' diyemiyece?im bir yerlere gelmi?tim.

Hiçbir zaman, olmamak ile olmak aras?ndaki kesin geçi?i görememi?imdir. (Güne?in tam do?du?u, yapra??n tam açt??? zaman;benim, bir ?eyi ilk dü?ündü?üm an.)

Fakat ben oraya zarf koymazd?m. Çünkü zarf?m yoktu evde. Çünkü kimseye mektup yazmad?m. Çünkü kimse bana mektup yazmazd?. Korktum. Çünkü, 'demek ki' diyemeyece?im bir yerlere gelmi?tim. ?çime bir a?r? sapland?. Ne olurdu bir 'demek ki' daha diyebilseydim.

Bu kadar yak?n?mda oldu?unu bilmiyordum ama, sen bir yerde var olursan ya?ayabilirim ancak demi?tim.

Leven Thumps, you are incredibly more than you believe yourself to be." - Colver

I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

I closed my eyes and saw the children playing their game again. 'The ease seemed so frightening.' I said. 'Now I see why.' 'What?' 'The ease. Us, the children ... I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.

but it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change.

c'era voluta un'epidemia per far capire alla gente che le cose potevano cambiare.

What's your point?" "The changes." I thought for a moment. "They were slow changes compared to anything that might happen here, but it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change.

every time I understand a little more, I wonder why it's taken me so long—why there was ever a time when I didn't understand a thing so obvious and real and true.

They were slow changes compared to anything that might happen here, but it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change.

The Buddhist teachings move along a graduated path: first the stages of calm abiding and then the stages of deep insight. Through such gradual practices, lamas of the past gave birth to realization in their mental continuum and discovered primordial wisdom. All the qualities that the great masters found, we can attain as well. It all depends on our own efforts, our diligence, our deeper knowing, and our correct motivation. – 17th Karmapa

Two disembodied minds, occupying the same visual position, possessing the same memories and desires, and often performing the same mental acts at the same time, can scarcely be conceived as distinct beings. Yet, strangely enough, this growing identity was complicated by an increasingly intense mutual realization and comradeship.

Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that – in spite of all the risks involved – a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.