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• Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end.
  When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Yoga, Failing, Ends

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• Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

  Yann Martel

  Joy, Understanding, Feelings

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.98, Canongate Books

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• You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Men, Thinking

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• The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Men, Self

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.166, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

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• Then what am I - the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization, this greater understanding which dwells within it, yet expands through the universe outside; a part of all existence, powerless but without need for power; immersed in solitude, yet in contact with all creation? There are moments when the two appear inseparable, and others when they could be cut apart by the merest flash of light.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Eye, Cutting, Light

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Overcoming, World

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• I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

  Benjamin Spock

  Spiritual, Problem, Values

  Associated Press interview, 1992.

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• I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.

  Dan Winters

  Debt, World, Moments

  Dan Winters (2014). “Road to Seeing”, p.1967, New Riders

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• Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

  Henry George

  Dream, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Noble

  Henry George (1886). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth [and] the Remedy”

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• I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.

  Anne Lamott

  Alive, Offers, Mines

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• For better or worse, I tend to do a lot of thinking in my poems. But lately I've been trying to pay more attention to when and where I do that thinking, to be attentive to the settings in which meditation takes place. Sometimes the disconnect between the mind and the world is itself revealing, but in 'The Whole World Is Gone,' I think the setting deeply complements, indeed elicits and allows, a certain set of realizations to occur.

  Jennifer Grotz

  Thinking, Meditation, Mind

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Finals, Complicated

  "Hawthorne — The Painter; An Appreciation". Essay by Hans Hofmann, 1952.

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• When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared.... To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Brotherhood, Allies

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• I came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could do as a separated self that would ever fulfill me.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Self, Oneness, Clear

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• Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

  Edward R. Murrow

  War, Leaving, Survival

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Heart, Imagining Yourself, Dawn

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  People, Expectations, Faces

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Freedom, Self, People

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• The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Taken, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.90, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• A friend of mine says that in the world of religion we often have ignorance on fire and intelligence on ice.
  The thing I love about The Beatitudes Society is they represent faith and intelligence on fire and there's enthusiasm and passion and a realization that a more open and progressive approach to faith is something to celebrate.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Passion, Ignorance, Fire

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• Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical experience.

  Manly Hall

  Wise, Attitude, Men

  Manly Palmer Hall (1935). “First Principles of Philosophy: The Science of Perfection”

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• 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.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Grace, Heartfelt, Growing

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• The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

  John Philip Sousa

  Men, Office, President

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• The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

  Immanuel Kant

  Race, Perfect, Political

  Immanuel Kant (1914). “Eternal Peace: And Other International Essays”

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• Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Night, People, Important

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.715, Penguin UK

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