Profound Realizations Quotes

“I wasn’t sure I would ever be able to deal with the world. It seemed too big and demanding and there was no fixed syllabus.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

“All I really, really want to do is find a very, very fine chocolate store that I can walk into and then figure out how in the world one manages to pick out just a few chocolates out of all those very many chocolates! If I am one day able to walk into a fine chocolate store and know for certain which chocolates I want, when that happens, I will believe myself to be accomplished!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.”
― Andrew Solomon, A Stone Boat

“I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists.”
― Jennifer Skiff, God Stories: Inspiring Encounters with the Divine

“For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of thirst; for much longer he could have lived in this soft, well upholstered hell, if this had not happened: the moment of complete hopelessness and despair, that most extreme moment, when he hang over the rushing waters and was ready to destroy himself. That he had felt this despair, this deep disgust, and that he had not succumbed to it, that the bird, the joyful source and voice in him was still alive after all, this was why he felt joy, this was why he laughed, this was why his face was smiling brightly under his hair which had turned gray.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Sometimes it takes losing everything to realize what you had. And sometimes realizing what you had can actually make you feel thankful for losing everything. It’s a weird paradox, discovering what you thought was everything – what you ran and worked so hard for – really amounted to nothing.”
Todd Saville, My Father’s House”
― Todd Saville

“I sometimes doubt whether even the friends whose kind thoughts turned downwards me that evening from the distant South and West could realize how cheerful is the recollection of the Christmas spent in the solitude and cold of the desert.”
― Aurel Stein, Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan: Personal narrative of a journey of archaeological and geographical exploration in Chinese Turkestan

“In the looking, I found the cities within me.”
― Suketu Mehta

“I honestly think I must be mad - or at the very least, on the boarder of insanity when I look at the choices I have made.”
― Lienner Bankole

“Sometimes you must acknowledge what you are before you can change who you are.”
― Grace A. Johnson, Bound and Determined

“He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live.”
― Elizabeth Michels, How To Lose A Lord In 10 Days Or Less

“The once deep reservoirs filled with our vast emotional understanding have evaporated over the generations and we are now nothing more than a shallow cesspool of impossible expectations”
― Phillip McCarron, The Great Facepalm: The Farce of 21st Century Normality

“If you can go to the place of the deepest parts of yourself, and then proceed from that profundity, you can manifest real magick.”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“Life is like the two sides of a coin: sometimes brutal, other times full of wonder and joy. I accept both, and I’m not afraid of either. I can lean into both and learn the lessons each has to offer. Doing this would help me get out of my victim mode and do something good with this terrible situation. I’m so thankful to see the world from this new perspective—what an incredible gift Isaac has given me from the other side.”
― Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“Why are some people’s lives so hard and painful?” “It goes back to the two-sided coin. The opposite sides are needed to complete the lesson. Some lives seem very difficult, and others seem relatively easy, but both pose different lessons. If a person needs to learn self-respect, they might return and have an abusive relationship with a family member who pushes those boundaries. That situation encourages individuals to stand up for themselves and draw healthy boundaries. But if you come back to learn compassion or empathy, living a life of luxury can cause a person to be complacent, and therefore, they might live their whole life without learning their lesson. An easy life might set a person up for a more challenging lesson than a difficult life. They might get so caught up in their life of luxury that they see no reason for soul searching, and as a result, they never learn their lessons. Imagine an individual driving down the road, seeing a repeating sign—LIFE LESSON . . . LIFE LESSON—but they pay it no mind; they just keep driving! Hopefully, they’ll make a U-turn; otherwise, they’ve missed their exit—their opportunity to learn an important lesson.”
― Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“Why are some people’s lives so hard and painful?”
“It goes back to the two-sided coin. The opposite sides are needed to complete the lesson. Some lives seem very difficult, and others seem relatively easy, but both pose different lessons. If a person needs to learn self-respect, they might return and have an abusive relationship with a family member who pushes those boundaries. That situation encourages individuals to stand up for themselves and draw healthy boundaries. But if you come back to learn compassion or empathy, living a life of luxury can cause a person to be complacent, and therefore, they might live their whole life without learning their lesson. An easy life might set a person up for a more challenging lesson than a difficult life. They might get so caught up in their life of luxury that they see no reason for soul searching, and as a result, they never learn their lessons. Imagine an individual driving down the road, seeing a repeating sign—LIFE LESSON . . . LIFE LESSON—but they pay it no mind; they just keep driving! Hopefully, they’ll make a U-turn; otherwise, they’ve missed their exit—their opportunity to learn an important lesson.”
― Charlie Bynar

“Honestly, it has been an extraordinary journey . . . so extraordinary that some people questioned whether the things I told them were the truth. Then again, people often question things they haven’t experienced, because they have no reference point.”
― Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side