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"Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God."
"Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize."
"I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far."
"The true lover realizes that freedom is needed for loyalty to blossom."
"Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all."
"The closer one gets to realizing his destiny, the more that destiny becomes his true reason for being."
"At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us."
"People should realize we're jerks just like them."
"I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself."
"so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter."
"I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?"
"I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work."
"Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me."
"Every time you have a desire come true, some part of you realizes it did not have to live in limitation."
"God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream."
"Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you."
"Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?"
"It took me a bit to realize how big the changes have been in the last decade. In so many places - electricity from solar and wind is cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels, and now the batteries are coming down in costs very quickly. So it's very exciting news that needed to be told."
"Psychaiatrist realize that there are curative powers in confession."
"The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that."
