Realization Quotes

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but the truth is you just never thought you’d ever lose it.

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight,And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light.And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right,There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.

I was youand never knew it.

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.

I thought I was fooling people. But it's the old thing of 'they say vodka doesn't smell'. No, not until you sweat. And you just lie and lie and you think 'I can deal with this'. And then you finally go, 'No you can't'. And then you give up.

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.

Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in the now, to celebrate life by being completely present. You just watch the tail ... with some dogs you just look at them - just a little look is enough - and their tail goes ...'Life is good! Life is good!' And they are not telling themselves a story of why life is good. It's a direct realization.

Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

When you listen to the voice in your head, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. You'll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.

And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick?

Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real.

I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.

After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.

Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

I know I got to be right now Cause I can't get much wronger

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

What we want is progress, development, realisation.

The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.

Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

I have had my vision.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.