Quotes about Realization

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.

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.

And it points forward, urging us toward the realization that this hint and taste of union might actually be true. It guides us like an inner compass or a "homing" device.

The biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. It is about realization and not performance principles.

That is the rub of any conversion experience: We only realize how much we needed it when we are on the other side! That is why we need the tenacity of faith and hope to carry us across to most transformational experiences. When we can let others actually influence us and change us, our heart space is open.