Realization Quotes - Page 35

• Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.

  Rod Stryker

  Spiritual, Yoga, Sublime

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world that we look at as problems are simply part of the way the world manifests, because it does so in terms of opposites.

  Ken Wilber

  Opposites, Doe, Looks

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• Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears.

  Sharon Gannon

  Oneness, Enlightenment, Disappear

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• I don't pray for anything, but I have used affirmations in the past a few times. They are really a bit more like realizations in that on some level they have already happened.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Levels, Affirmation

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• This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Book, Writing

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

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• One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Breathing, Way

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

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• We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, May, Awakening

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• All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Destiny, Tunes, Masters

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• Thirty years of spiritual practice has given me the realization that emotions are based on our perceptions, whether or not they are based on reality.

  Michael Beckwith

  Spiritual, Reality, Years

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Extraordinary Beauty, Difficulty, Urgency

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• If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won.

  Keith Ellison

  Heart, Soul, Campaigns

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

  Van Morrison

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.

  John Dewey

  Moving, Tendencies, Indispensable

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, Perfect, Black

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• In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Talking, Income, Asking

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

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• In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Russia, Socialist

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Sea, Civilization, Islands

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Canon, Dissection, Suspicion

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Democracy, Scarcity, World

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the answer to fanaticism and to death is curiosity and compromise and concession.

  Amos Oz

  Curiosity, Alternatives, Answers

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Some great experiences I've had and little by little I've come to the realization that everything Frank Zappa told me was the truth, whether I wanted to believe it or not. You know, I was young and naive or in denial. But he really was a special, special human being.

  Terry Bozzio

  Believe, Special, Denial

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• I think that what's happened is that there's been a rediscovery of some good old-school films and a realization that there's always a place for them. We don't have to outgrow them with the new technology and we can do them with it and we can do them without it. We shouldn't always have the demands made on us to do it.

  Robert Englund

  School, Technology, Thinking

  Source: classic-horror.com

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• When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Light, Mind, Week

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• When one has a decisive realization of the inherent nature of the mind, which has no ego, it has no sense of duality between oneself and the cup, and a deep sense of interpenetration of the whole dharma. Then whatever we do is spontaneously perfect Buddha activity. And anybody who is even slightly tuned in will get a very deep experience of that.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Perfect, Ego, Mind

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