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• Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there ... lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger.

  Alan Coren

  Simple, Discovery, People

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.126, Canongate Books

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• Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

  John Dewey

  Nature, Animal, Purpose

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

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• Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic in the realization of this vision. Their eyes are open to whatever results occur-not just planned goals, because serendipity is a great innovator.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Leadership, Team, Eye

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• Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Creativity, Profound

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Creativity, Creative

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• I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking - and that's all that golf is - then you are officially fat.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Couple, Tired

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• You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender was strengthened when I saw a performance of the play The Normal Heart in 1985. After feeling the love those two men had for each other, I dare anybody not to want them to get married by the end.

  Barbra Streisand

  Heart, Gay, Men

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• The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

  Jean Houston

  History, Challenges, Humanity

  Jean Houston (2016). “Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Each of us has some unique capabilities waiting for realization.

  George H. Bender

  Unique, Waiting, Capability

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• As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.

  Bruce Lee

  Reality, Two, Oneness

  Bruce Lee (1987). “Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self Defense”, p.80, Black Belt Communications

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• Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.8, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Wise, Talking

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• Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational Life, Adventure, Space

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• Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Self, Perfection

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

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• With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I am the ocean." You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspiration, Ocean, Littles

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• 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

  God, Consciousness, States

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• The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Quiet, Praying

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• We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.

  Ansel Adams

  Moving, Wind, Serendipity

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Self, Perfect

  "The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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• I believe that such constant realization ennobles one automatically. One's stature is greater, one's step more elastic, one's aura more powerful; and it makes other people see that Light in one's eyes which attracts people to him who has it.

  Walter Russell

  Inspirational, Powerful, Believe

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• There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen from which the previous ones are mere abstractions. Just like on sunrise you see things as they are, so on self-realization you see everything as it is. The world of illusions is left behind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Self, Sunrise, Dimensions

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• I believe that every man can multiply his own ability by almost constant wordless realization of his unity with his Source. I have, myself, made that feeling so much a part of me that I actually feel myself to be an extension of the Source; that my works are not my own, but interpretations of this Source.

  Walter Russell

  Believe, Men, Feelings

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• Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

  Byron Katie

  Self, Action, Self Realization

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.79, Random House

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• That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Pain, Self

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.162, Random House

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• There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is one world into 200 artificially created entities we call 'nations' and armed to apprehend or kill anyone who crosses a boundary.

  Howard Zinn

  Civilization, World, Firsts

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