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• With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I am the ocean." You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspiration, Ocean, Littles

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• 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.

  George Harrison

  God, Consciousness, States

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• 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.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Quiet, Praying

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• We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.

  Ansel Adams

  Moving, Wind, Serendipity

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Self, Perfect

  "The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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• I believe that such constant realization ennobles one automatically. One's stature is greater, one's step more elastic, one's aura more powerful; and it makes other people see that Light in one's eyes which attracts people to him who has it.

  Walter Russell

  Inspirational, Powerful, Believe

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• I believe that every man can multiply his own ability by almost constant wordless realization of his unity with his Source. I have, myself, made that feeling so much a part of me that I actually feel myself to be an extension of the Source; that my works are not my own, but interpretations of this Source.

  Walter Russell

  Believe, Men, Feelings

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• Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

  Byron Katie

  Self, Action, Self Realization

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.79, Random House

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• That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Pain, Self

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.162, Random House

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• Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Positive, Men, Thinking

  Wallace D. Wattles (2013). “The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

  Sivananda

  Life, Purpose, Useless

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• Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Knowledge, Science, People

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• Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

  Lewis Thomas

  Learning, Science, Astonishment

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• Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

  Phillips Brooks

  God, Confidence, Children

  "Sermons".

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• The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

  Herbert Croly

  Education, School, Library

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• To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cutting, Ideas, Chains That Bind

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• There is no difference in the realization of the Truth either by a Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or a Christian. The difference is only in words and terms. Truth is not the monopoly of a particular race or religion.

  Meher Baba

  Christian, Race, Differences

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• Set aside the many competing explanations of the big bang; something made an entire cosmos out of nothing. It is this realization - that something transcendent started it all - which has hard-science types... using terms like "miracle."

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Miracle, Bangs, Cosmos

  "The New Convergence". www.wired.com. December 1, 2002.

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• You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness. It is a state of no-action. It is a state of tremendous passivity, receptivity. You are not doing anything, you are not thinking anything, you are not planning for anything, you are not doing yoga exercises, and you are not doing any technique, any method - you are simply existing, just existing. And in that very moment... the sudden realization that all is as it should be. That`s what enlightenment is!

  Rajneesh

  Yoga, Exercise, Thinking

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

  Joanna Macy

  Gratitude, Helping, Realizing

  Joanna Macy (2007). “World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times”, p.72, Parallax Press

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• The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspiration, Sisterhood, Compassion

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• The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.

  William H. Gass

  Astrology, Earth, Taste

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• Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance; the insurance company is within: self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Self, Discipline

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.9, Penguin Books India

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• The most supreme beauty is that of the feminine; the source of all creativity. Even in my greatest despair, that realization alone restores my faith in God.

  Joseph Curiale

  Faith, Creativity, Despair

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• Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Skills, Self, Volunteer

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