The Lexicon
Transformation and the path
Realization
Realization is the making-real of what was only believed, the instant a truth held in the head drops into the heart and becomes lived knowing. It is the bridge between concept and experience, the difference between hearing that you are free and tasting that freedom directly. The sages insist that no borrowed truth liberates; only what you realize for yourself can set you free.
Carried by 55 teachers · across 6 traditions · 11 quotes
In the nondual and New Thought currents alike, realization is the operative word for transformation: Troward speaks of coming into the full realization of awakened interior powers, while Vedanta names Self-realization as the goal of every life. To realize is to turn knowledge into being, to let the map become the territory under your own feet. It is the quiet click by which the whole teaching finally arrives where it was always pointing.
In their words
To come into the full realization of your own awakened interior powers, is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.Ralph Waldo Trine
A firm conviction of the mind to the effect that Brahman is real and the universe unreal, is designated as discrimination between the Real and the unreal.Adi Shankara
It is always still in the depths of the ocean, irrespective of the storms that may be raging on its surface.Rupert Spira
Therefore, you must reach the point where you realize that your 'true self' knows no limits.Bob Proctor
Find out who you are by asking 'Who am I?' and abide as that.Ramana Maharshi