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• Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.

  Alfred Kazin

  Loss, Ideas, Generations

  Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Careers, White

  Paul Theroux (1986). “Sunrise with Seamonsters”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are "going through," but what we are "growing to"-a greater sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment. Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Accomplishment, Joy, Understanding

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• Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.

  Gerhard Richter

  Religious, Art, Believe

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by multiplying these by two or four, I obtain a definite number of colour fields that I multiply yet again by two, etc. But the complete realization of this project demands a great deal of time and work.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Black And White, Two

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• Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Self

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2016

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• God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Heart, Self, Meditation

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• Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Ocean, Restless Mind, Names

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• Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Writing, Self

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

  Leonard Orr

  Fantastic, Valuable, Bathtubs

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• For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Country, War, Home

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Girl, Fashion

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• When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

  Asvaghosa

  Character, Mean, Practice

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• My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.

  Kurt Bills

  Philosophy, Reality, People

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• The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

  John Baldacci

  Native American, Community, Priorities

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• Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

  Judith Butler

  Race, Class, Different

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• I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.

  Chace Crawford

  School, College, Class

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

  Cindy Gallop

  Children, Decision, Conscious

  "Women Over 50 Have Sex Drive, Too". Interview with Jincey Lumpkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

  Emmet Fox

  Motivational, Encouragement, Powerful

  Emmet Fox (1940). “Power Through Constructive Thinking”

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• Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Kings, Yoga, Men

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.750, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mean, Self, Firsts

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• It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Practice, Self

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• Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Lying, Self

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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• I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To know food only theoretically is to always remain hungry. You must eat to satisfy hunger. So he who seeks new doctrines continuously but does not put them into practice in his life is in continual spiritual starvation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Practice, Differences

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