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• All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

  Thornton Wilder

  Gratitude, Grief, Reality

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• The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on.

  Stephen King

  Real, Years, Scary

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• What happened when you woke up?" "I was having a dream. I don’t know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin." "Like a brick in the groin, I see." "I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." "Life is a nightmare." "Yes.

  Ned Vizzini

  Dream, Wake Up, Want

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• ...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Song, Children, Flower

  Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

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• Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

  Steven Biko

  Brother, Men, Essence

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• That’s where the dreams end: with the realization that it doesn’t matter where I am, whether I think I’m a woman or a fish or something in-between. I’ve never really left the pond. I still can’t breathe.

  Mira Grant

  Dream, Thinking, Ponds

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• Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

  Octavio Paz

  Discovery, Self, Sudden Realization

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.9, Grove Press

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• If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Pain, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.92, New World Library

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• We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Profound

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• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

  A. R. Ammons

  Art, Mean, Self

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had your privilege. Remember the poor and obscure lives of those countless millions who suffer from every sort of deprivation and frequently find themselves the unwilling victim of wars, and a variety of cruelties, perpetuated by man on man. Is it not significant that the first bid for self realization, among the poor and downtrodden, is to assert their right to education?

  Jehan Sadat

  Graduation, War, Men

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• True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.156, New World Library

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• When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is, and has embodied that wisdom; it has become integrated into daily life, thoughts, and activities. We often view "awakening" as first step towards such realization. Awakening can occur in the blink of an eye, frequently through the direct, heart-opening (heart-breaking) transmission of grace from an awakened teacher.

  Russell Targ

  Teacher, Writing, Heart

  Russell Targ (2010). “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness”, p.15, New World Library

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• One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, People, Politics

  James K. Galbraith, Kari Levitt, Mel Watkins, John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2009). “Unconventional wisdom: lectures from the John Kenneth Galbraith prize in economics”

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• I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.

  Donella Meadows

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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• We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

  Billy Childish

  Destiny, Facts, Results

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• I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

  Alana Stewart

  Divorce, Thinking, Self

  "Is ‘I Do’ Supposed To Be Forever?" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2013.

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• Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

  David Sarnoff

  Distance, Ideas, Research

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• You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Morning, Frustration, People

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• If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.

  Sister Nivedita

  Struggle, Reality, Sacred

  Sister Nivedita (2016). “Swamiji and His Message”, p.37, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate- each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

  Ken Wilber

  Dust, Evil, Perfect

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.290, Shambhala Publications

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• Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things; otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Ideas, Differences, Would Be

  Interview with Conrad Bodman, 2001.

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• We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.

  Willard Libby

  Honor, Atoms, Done

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• Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.

  Sidney Phillips

  Inspirational, Men, Hands

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• My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.

  Deepak Chopra

  Compassion, Goal, Creative

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