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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage -- Ramana Maharshi
Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised. -- Wei Wu Wei
Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation. -- Swami Vivekananda
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement. -- Otto Weininger
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation. -- Ali Akbar Khan
Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being. -- Harold Klemp
The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period. -- Kim Young-sam
People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that. -- Roger Penrose
Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed. -- Ramana Maharshi
What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest. -- Sri Chinmoy
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only." -- Ramana Maharshi
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only. -- Ramana Maharshi
Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and it's light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness. The Divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world. -- Shari Arison
Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride. -- Garth Nix
Self-realisation means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong... -- Swami Paramananda
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection! -- Aleister Crowley
Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others. -- Harold Klemp
The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal. -- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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. -- Rabindranath Tagore
All service should be regarded as an offering to God, and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from God. When service is done in this spirit, it will lead to self- realization. -- Sathya Sai Baba
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. -- John Drinkwater
All great movements, it is written, go through three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. It is the realisation of this third stage, adoption, that requires our passion and our discipline, our hearts and our heads. The fate of animals is in our hands. -- Tom Regan
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias. -- Oscar Wilde
Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by fairly unexceptional humans, are in fact the word of god. I think that the indispensable condition of any intellectual liberty is the realisation that there is no such thing. -- Christopher Hitchens
The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation. -- Natalia Vodianova
Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation. -- Gene Clark
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me. -- Kailash Kher
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside. -- Vladimir Putin
I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story. -- John McGahern
I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space. -- Simon McBurney
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Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job. -- Paul Davies
I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf. -- Caitlin Moran
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic. -- John Burnside
Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt. -- Clint Eastwood
There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room. -- Helen Mirren
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 realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work. -- Andy Goldsworthy
The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me. -- Steven Price
I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues. -- James Meade
1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar. -- Sri Chinmoy
The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with. -- Nina Bawden
The goal of life is god realisation. -- Sivananda
What we want is progress, development, realisation. -- Swami Vivekananda
God within you is an inner light for self-realisation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that. -- Swami Vivekananda
The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering. -- Stephen Richards
Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'. -- Cedric Price
...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable. -- Ruth Dugdall
Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it. -- Sri Chinmoy
The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult. -- Lawrence Durrell
The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life. -- Carl Jung
Be happy but when sad times come, know that God allow these time for self-realisation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. -- Christopher Hitchens
Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation. -- Meher Baba
The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song. -- Gene Clark
With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God? -- Swami Vivekananda
The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age. -- Nirmala Srivastava
One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments. -- Swami Vivekananda
Essential acts to master for self realisation;Master the act of learning.Master the act of writing.Master the act of reading. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire. -- Joseph Murphy
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation. -- Swami Vivekananda
When you act on your beliefs, the realisation that happens is caused by you and this will in turn lead to a consequence. -- Stephen Richards
When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know. -- Peter Boghossian
The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation. -- Swami Vivekananda
Circumstances, knowledge or birth do not determine the realisation of your desires. It is only you who are blocking the achievement of your dreams and goals. -- Stephen Richards
I think people are finally realising that women are interesting and more interesting the older they get. But it's taken a while for that realisation to happen. -- Christine Bottomley
...blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. [...to the realisation of eternal gratitude that things aren't worse, because they always can be!] -- Frithjof Schuon
To know the reality one has to enter into the realm of Meta-science, beyond mind, which is only possible when we enter into the collective super-consciousness through self-realisation. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life, and he gets free access to the Divine. -- Sri Chinmoy
A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire. -- Gustave Le Bon
When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end! -- Susan Schneider
In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We must believe, but we can't believe. Perhaps this is the tragedy that some of us see in Obama: a change we can believe in and the crushing realisation that nothing will change. -- Simon Critchley
A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of outlook, will also one day - despite all hindrances - enforce its realisation in all domains. -- Alfred Rosenberg
There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation of some matters which end up in a ditch of rejection. -- Angelica Hopes
Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it ... -- Mina Loy
Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings -- Swami Vivekananda
There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled -- Beryl Bainbridge
Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions. -- Quentin S. Crisp
As long as we place millions of Indians at the centre of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self-realisation we are on the right track. -- Mukesh Ambani

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