Realization Quotes - Page 36

• People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, People, Enlightenment

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• Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind is completely open and spacious. Even in that condition, you still use the relative mind. You use them both.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mind, Use, Wonderful

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• Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Benefits, Used

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, World, Violence

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• The high level of the technologies used during the Gulf War makes this conflict quite unique, but the very process of de-realization of the war started in 1945. War occured in Kuwait, but it also occured on the screens of the entire world. The site of defeat or victory was not the ground, but the screen.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Technology, Unique

  Source: ctheory.net

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• There cannot be an animal body without a territorial body: three bodies are grafted over each other: the territorial body - the planet, the social body - the couple, and the animal body - you and me. And technology splits this unity, leaving us without a sense of where we are. This, too, is de-realization.

  Paul Virilio

  Couple, Technology, Animal

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom.

  Joan Halifax

  Years, Vastness, Beads

  "About Kazuaki Tanahashi: An Interview with Roshi Joan Halifax". Shambhala Interview, www.shambhala.com.

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• Nigeria is so peculiar and dramatic. Even talking about the potentials before we talk about the negativities, Nigeria is a nation for perpetual study. I think in Nigeria, it is the potential which hits people and makes them believe in Nigeria. It tends to make them react when they see potentials being wasted and it is a tragedy to see potentials wasted. But paradoxically, it is a realization of the existence, that positive, that keeps many Nigerians and even foreign people going.

  Wole Soyinka

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• God's all happiness, all bliss, and by chanting His names we connect with Him. 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

  Names, Consciousness, Bliss

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• We don't, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle by our own realizations.

  George Harrison

  Ignorance, Soul, Together

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• The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You make spiritual advancement just by eating it.

  Mukunda Goswami

  Spiritual, Advancement, Doe

  "Interview with George Harrison". September 4, 1982.

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• I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Thinking, Magic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Science is leading us forward in our evolution in the area of spiritual consciousness, in a sense. They're leading us to a final realization, through validation, of what spiritual masters have known for centuries. That we are a lot more than we seem, that we are all part of a whole, that we have far greater extended potential than we make use of or understand.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Spiritual, Evolution, Consciousness

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• Most people believe that inequality is rising - and indeed it has been rising for a while in a number of rich countries. And there is lots of talk and realization of this. It's harder to understand that at the same time, you can actually have global inequality going down. Technically speaking, national inequality can increase in every single country and yet global inequality can go down. And why it is going down is because very large, populous, and relatively poor countries like India and China are growing quite fast.

  Branko Milanovic

  Country, Believe, People

  Source: gawker.com

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• I'd met so many enlightened spiritual teachers that it became a challenge to select one. I believed in the oneness of spirituality - unconditional love for God, and unconditional compassion for the beings of this world - but I also understood that unless I chose a particular path, I couldn't focus and take blessings from teachers that would allow me to have deep realizations and spiritual experiences.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Teacher, Unconditional Love

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and a husband. I just think it's the realization of, "Hey, this is the greatest situation in the world."

  Ann Dowd

  Mother, Husband, Thinking

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• This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore. I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Taken, Support

  Source: progressive.org

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• When I listen to Airplanes record, it takes me back. I remember a lot of my thought processes when I was 20 or 21, writing those songs and recording that record. I wonder what I was thinking when I was trying to say a particular thing. I hear some of the weird little nuances in the recording; I can hear what the room sounded like. I remember what it smelled like. I can remember sitting up in guitarist Chris Walla's bedroom and for the first time in my life having this realization like, "Maybe I can do this. Maybe I can make music that in some capacity people will enjoy and come see me play."

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Writing, Airplane

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Why is it rappers feel like they have to show each other their balls? It's so frustrating to me and the fact that I've come to the realization that I'm not playing that game and I'm just happy whether I'm sitting on the keyboard, up on the stage, or doing post edit vocals alignments for someone I don't even know, I'm happy. I am successful in my own eyes.

  Grieves

  Eye, Successful, Rapper

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Every hardship you endure and every failure you withstand could very well be the stepping stone to success and the realization of your God-given dream.

  David A. R. White

  Dream, Hardship, Endure

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• For most women being other-directed, focused on how other people feel and nurturing them, was (and can still be) a quality that girls were (are) heavily pressured to become. The unselfish or Self-less woman was (is) seen as ideal. The realization and articulation that the cultural ideal of the perfect woman was someone who had no sense of Self and was a key part of the angry energy that drove Feminism to its swift success.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Girl, People, Perfect

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death. And yes, I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them. 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

  Integrity, Curiosity, Apologizing

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like I stepped into adulthood. I realized, Okay, this is not going to work out. It was frustrating for about a year because I didn't know what to do with the creativity and the discipline that dancing had instilled in me from a very young age. But then I moved to Paris to model, and that was my cultural awakening. Now, I think dancing has been the biggest thing in my life, much more so than modeling, and it still helps me enormously in my work.

  Diane Kruger

  Creativity, Thinking, Blessing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Barack Obama's understanding of what the drug war had cost the country was meaningful. And very quietly in his second term, he and Eric Holder did make some adjustments in terms of the use of the Department of Justice, on the federal level. You saw ratcheting back of drug prohibition, and mass incarceration. You also saw, on the part of some certain states, a realization that they followed the war on drugs to a useless place, that they were only doing damage to communities, and bankrupting budgets with prison construction.

  David Simon

  Meaningful, Country, War

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The more we as a society make women's sex lives seem like a secret, the more hostile that becomes. Because when you get into that cycle of thinking, no matter what you're doing, you feel shameful about it, because there's no way to talk about it. I think that through talking about it and sharing stories you realize the things you may have felt shameful about are totally normal and totally OK. Everyone's normal in their own way. You can only come to that realization if you're having these conversations, and learning what normal is for other people.

  Jennie Runk

  Thinking, People, Secret

  Source: www.elle.com

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