Realization Quotes

The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.

Self-realization is a very quiet thing. It's not flashy. No one might see you light up a room. No one might observe anything

All beings come from a mother's womb. We should have a clear realization of the oneness of all humanity.

The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful.

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I'm challenged. I have to do this on my own.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

Ultimately, it's my choice and only my choice.

What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

Changing yourself changes everything.

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo

You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.

Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization.

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain.

Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality

I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization."

Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.

Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.

The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom.

People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and a husband. I just think it's the realization of, "Hey, this is the greatest situation in the world."

Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.

The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.

What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-Realization. He who practices Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a freee access to the Divine.

The Prophet was taken by the order of God to heaven, which is a prototype of all spiritual realization in Islam. But, he had a guide; Gabriel, the angel, was his guide. He took him to heaven.

As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.