669 Quotes About Realization

  • Author Dōgen
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    The time of our delusion does not obstruct the time of our realization. Our practice is not in order to attain realization. Practice itself is the actualization of realization.

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  • Author Émile Zola
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    Her pride in self-abnegation had left her, and she accepted that her loved ones could find happiness without her help.

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  • Author Osamu Dazai
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    ...I was cured by the unhappy peculiarity that the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them - a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

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  • Author James Salter
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    We preserve ourselves as if that were important, and always at the expense of others. We hoard ourselves. We succeed if they fail, we are wise if they are foolish, and we go onward, clutching, until there is no one—we are left with no companion save God. In whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist.

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  • Author Alix E. Harrow
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    And then she knew me.I saw the knowing arrive, wonderful and terrible. In my memory she has two different faces at once, like the god she named me for: On one face is riotous joy, blazing at me like the sun itself. On the other is deepest mourning, the keening, marrow-deep ache of someone who has looked for something too long and found it too late.She reached her hand toward me, and I saw her mouth move. Jan-u-ary.

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