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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
Realization

"An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else"

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Realization

"So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant."

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Judith Butler Philosopher, Gender Theorist
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"We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world."

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Walt Disney Animator, Film Producer
Realization

"I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day."

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Richard Ford Novelist
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"Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"I don't pray for anything, but I have used affirmations in the past a few times. They are really a bit more like realizations in that on some level they have already happened."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"I have spoken to many people who have begun to live in presence, and they find many changes come into their lives. Sometimes these changes happen as inner realizations - "This is what I have to do" - or they arise from the external when something suddenly happens."

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself."

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David Bowie Musician, Actor
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"In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
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"We must return to the fundamentals; the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count; you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept."

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual."

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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
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"There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course. But I was pretty certain as I sat there that tonight that if it hadn't been for Eddie, I wouldn't have found myself on the PCT. And though it was true that everything I felt for him sat like a boulder in my throat, this realization made the boulder sit ever so much lighter. He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered."

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
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"To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right."

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