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• All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

  Mitch Albom

  Dream, Melting, Happens

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• A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Maturity

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• One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.

  Rajneesh

  Lying, Healing, Sky

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• Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Real, Love Is

  1959 'The Sublime and the Good'.

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• Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits.

  Namkhai Norbu

  Nature, Buddhist, Knowledge

  Namkhai Norbu (1986). “The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen”, p.94, Shambhala

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• Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.

  Dan Wakefield

  Spiritual, Appreciation, Miracle

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• Once you start growing in your self-realization, you develop such a personality that you see the whole world as one.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Happiness is your True Nature.
  Within you is Unimaginable Beauty.
  Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment.
  Through the clear Realization of the Truth,
  your Real Self will come shining through.

  Robert Adams

  Real, Self, Shining

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• The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Meditation, Body, Environment

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• So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.

  Edith Hamilton

  Children, School, Air

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

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• Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Delusion

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Justice, Diversity, Mind

  Lorraine Hansberry (1994). “The Collected Last Plays”, Vintage

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• To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

  Dennis Merzel

  Acceptance, Accepting, Diamond

  Dennis Genpo Merzel (2005). “The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very grave seriousness of this war, to make them feel that we are in this war to win, and the probability is that our entering this war is going to be the deciding factor, and that the burden of the success is going to rest upon the United States.

  John J. Pershing

  Military, War, Men

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• An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes the person who is seeing it.

  Paul Reps

  Time, Realizing, Moments

  Paul Reps (2015). “Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection Of Zen And Pre-Zen Writings”, p.144, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Suicide, Writing, Suicidal

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• Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that no war would be likely essentially to alter the distress in Europe. The principal effect of every war is to destroy the flower of the nation. Germany needs peace and desires peace!

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Flower, Simple

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• "Ju" means being natural or in other words the way which is natural and in accords with the truth of the universe and the one that human beings have to follow. Also, "Ju" may mean anything reasonable, just and honorable, accordingly noble: namely the realization of Truth , Good and Beauty.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Mean, May, Way

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• It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Self, Progress, Martial Arts

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• The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Art, Secret

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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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• 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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