Quotes about Realization

The more we become sensitive to our own journey the more we realize that we are leaving and coming back every day, every hour. Our minds wander away but eventually return; our hearts leave in search of affection and return sometimes broken; our bodies get carried away in their desires then sooner or later return. It's never one dramatic life moment but a constant series of departures and returns.

I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted; then I realized that the interruptions were my work.

The deep truth is that our human suffering need not be an obstacle to the joy and peace we so desire, but can become, instead, the means to it. The great secret of the spiritual life, the life of the Beloved Sons and Daughters of God, is that everything we live, be it gladness or sadness, joy or pain, health or illness, can all be part of the journey toward the full realisation of our humanity.

God is a God who wants to lead us closer to the full realization of our lionhearted humanity, if you will.

Advent... leads to a growing inner stillness and joy allowing me to realize that the One for whom I am waiting has already arrived and speaks to me in the silence of my heart.

You are inclined to do something about the externals of your pain in order to relieve it; this explains why you often seek revenge. But real healing comes from realizing that your own particular pain is a share in humanity's pain. That realization allows you to forgive your enemies and enter into a truly compassionate life.

In solitude we can come to the realization that we are not driven together but brought together. In solitude we come to know our fellow human beings not as partners who can satisfy our deepest needs, but as brothers and sisters with whom we are called to give visibility to God's all-embracing love. In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call. In solitude we indeed realize that community is not made but given.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We

Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.

It was not so much that a door opened as that I suddenly found that a door had been open all along which I had only just then stumbled upon.