Quotes about Realization

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.

That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way.

I don't really like talking too much about myself, but I have this feeling that it's all clicking for me. It's all coming together.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

The task of the second half of life is, quite simply, to find the actual contents that this container was meant to hold and deliver.

We must keep eating and drinking the Mystery, until one day it dawns on us, in an undefended moment, "My God, I really am what I eat! I also am the Body of Christ.

Likewise, an intellectual belief that Jesus rose from the dead is a good start, but until you are struck by the realization that the crucified and risen Jesus is a parable about the journey of all humans, and even the universe, it is a rather harmless—if not harmful—belief that will leave you and the world largely unchanged.

Until you meet a benevolent God and a benevolent universe, until you realize that the foundation of all is love, you will not be at home in this world.