Realization Quotes - Page 24

• It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, Body, Divinity

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.44, Shambhala Publications

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• We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

  Adyashanti

  Expression, Consumers

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• Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end.
  When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Yoga, Failing, Ends

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• I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.

  Anne Lamott

  Alive, Offers, Mines

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• Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.

  Edward R. Murrow

  War, Leaving, Survival

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Heart, Imagining Yourself, Dawn

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• For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  People, Expectations, Faces

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Freedom, Self, People

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• The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Taken, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.90, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• A friend of mine says that in the world of religion we often have ignorance on fire and intelligence on ice.
  The thing I love about The Beatitudes Society is they represent faith and intelligence on fire and there's enthusiasm and passion and a realization that a more open and progressive approach to faith is something to celebrate.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Passion, Ignorance, Fire

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• Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical experience.

  Manly Hall

  Wise, Attitude, Men

  Manly Palmer Hall (1935). “First Principles of Philosophy: The Science of Perfection”

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• Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Grace, Heartfelt, Growing

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• The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

  John Philip Sousa

  Men, Office, President

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• The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

  Immanuel Kant

  Race, Perfect, Political

  Immanuel Kant (1914). “Eternal Peace: And Other International Essays”

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• Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Night, People, Important

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.715, Penguin UK

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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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