Realization Quotes

Why do we wander so ungrateful? So undeserving and undetermined. Take a look around and realize life is naught in vain yet for the greater good. Do your time in your own manner stop to realize the simplest of things. Don't get caught in the big picture but the things most wouldn't recognize. Its easy to get lost when so focused yet wander with an open heart and no desires to see what the world has to offer and do your part in what you can offer the world. - Nick Ince

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. - Bryant H. McGill

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements. - Erich Fromm

When your intellect, that is confused by the conflicting opinions and the ritualistic doctrine of the Vedas, shall stay steady and firm with the Self, then you shall attain Self-realization. - Bhagavad Gita

When it comes to this music, it just seems to be a foregone conclusion that there is going to be some kind of excuse for things not being able to be implemented that are deemed necessary for the successful realization of the music. I know that this is sounding clumsy and that it could easily be misinterpreted, but one doesn't have to be a brain trust to make the observation that I've just made. - Bill Dixon

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. - Julian Assange

When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys and Nasty Girls of God realization, the men and women who are in your face, disturbing you terrifying you, until you radically awaken to who and what you really are. - Ken Wilber

When I was younger, all I wanted in life was to be beautiful. I thought that if I was beautiful, I would be happy. Then a friend pointed out to me that they went hand in hand. She said, that to be happy, you must be beautiful. I realized that it was the other way around. To be beautiful, you must first be happy. - Victoria Jones

When I graduated from college, I had to come to the realization that if I wanted to live in my hometown, I was going to have to pay $2,500 for a month in rent. That was a real shock. - Sean Fallon