Realization Quotes

Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies.

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.

Every now and then you have like a realization moment where you get goosebumps and think, “I am literally the luckiest person in the world.

Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

The realization that reason and anti-reason, sense and nonsense, design and chance, consciousness and unconsciousness, belong together as necessary parts of a whole - this was the central message of Dada.

Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.

Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration (which are much the same thing).

If we stop for a moment, it is possible to perceive a pattern in our lives; the motivators that have influenced us become more obvious. We are able to see life unfolding from BOTH ENDS AT ONCE, coming into the present moment. But until we have got to a certain point of realization, this is not possible, because everything is still seen as a series of apparent causes and effects.

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

I have argued that philosophy doesn't begin in wonder or in the fact that things are, it begins in a realization that things are not what they might be. It begins with a sense of a lack, of something missing, and that provokes a series of questions.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

One of the strongest motives for wishing to work on yourself is the realization that you may die at any moment - only you must first realize this.

Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.

One of the most scariest thing in life,is when you come to the realization that the only thing that can save you,is...yourself Demi lovato

The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily.

A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for!

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

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

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

He knows what He is doing with me. I cannot always understand His way, but I am content in the realization that He knows what is best. That is surrender.

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.

Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort of indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there is no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process, an ever-renewing process.

The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation.

It's very difficult to grapple with the idea of not being able to wrestle any more, but you also have to come to the realization that this is a very physical business, and your body will only last you so long.

For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.

Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind is completely open and spacious. Even in that condition, you still use the relative mind. You use them both.