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• Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.

  Harold Klemp

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Inspirational, Music, Real

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• If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

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• Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Book, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1972). “Awakened India”

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• True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.

  A. H. Almaas

  Teaching, States, Investigation

  A. H. Almaas (2011). “Diamond Heart: Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery”, p.224, Shambhala Publications

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• Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Wonderful, Whatever Happens, Offers

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Asante Salaam, Barbara Bash (2010). “Perseverance”, p.117, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end. The exclusivism of there being only one way in which we can be saved, the idea that there is a single religious group that is in sole possession of the truth—that is the world as we know it that must pass away. What is the kingdom? It lies in our realization of the ubiquity of the divine presence in our neighbors, in our enemies, in all of us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Religious, Lying, Ignorance

  "Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Self, Giving

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• Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Inspirational, Real

  "Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature".

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• So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

  Alan Watts

  Loving Yourself, Self Love, Impossible

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• My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

  Julian Barbour

  Change, Ideas, Time Passes

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• Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Laughing

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• At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

  Charlize Theron

  Peace, Facts, Kind

  "Interview: Charlize Theron" By Fred Topel, www.ign.com. September 13, 2004.

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• Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Self, Meditation

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• We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Religious, Powerful, Giving Up

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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

  Paul J. Meyer

  Success, Goal, Transformation

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• When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

  Matsuo Basho

  Wind, Lakes, Water

  Matsuo Basho (2003). “A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen”, p.4, Counterpoint Press

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• Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

  John Daido Loori

  Mind, Special, Enlightenment

  Stephen Addiss, John Daido Loori (2009). “The Zen Art Book: The Art of Enlightenment”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• I think that we need to be more aware of how we are all interconnected, and how we actually need to invest in safety nets and in education, and that we need to come to the realization that health care is a human right and try to provide that for people.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Thinking, People, Safety

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Play, Creative

  Max Beckmann (2013). “On My Painting - Max Beckmann”, p.8, Tate Enterprises Ltd

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• To tell a man who has no realization that he is lost, that he may be saved by faith in Christ, means nothing to him, however true and blessed the fact is in itself.

  Henry Allen Ironside

  Blessed, Mean, Men

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• The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Lasts, Socialism, Economic

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• It certainly was an important moment for me, that realization that I was not going to get what I wanted. It was very freeing. I keep using that word "freeing" or "liberating." I feel like Houdini sometimes, like I'm just getting out of one set of shackles after another, hanging upside down inside a burlap bag with handcuffs on. Hopefully one day, I'm going to get out of this tank of water.

  Alison Bechdel

  Water, Important, One Day

  Source: www.progressive.org

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