Realize

About Realize

Realize is the fifth studio album by Japanese singer/songwriter Hideaki Tokunaga. Released on May 21, 1989, the album sold over 300,000 copies and peaked at No. 4 in Oricon's albums chart and was ranked at No. 46 in Oricon's 1989 year-ending album chart. It was also certified Gold by the RIAJ.

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Realize (リアライズ, Riaraizu) is the fifth studio album by Japanese singer/songwriter Hideaki Tokunaga. Released on May 21, 1989, the album sold over 300,000 copies and peaked at No. 4 in Oricon's albums chart and was ranked at No. 46 in Oricon's 1989 year-ending album chart. It was also certified Gold by the RIAJ.

The album features the singles "Saigo no Iiwake", "Koibito", and "Myself ~Kaze ni Naritai~" / "Kokoro no Ball". The English-language song "You're in the Sky ~Eolia~" was used for TV commercials promoting Panasonic's Eolia air conditioner line.

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Track listing

All music is composed by Hideaki Tokunaga and arranged by Ichizo Seo.

Personnel

Keyboards: Ryoichi Kuniyoshi, Yu Toyama, and Nobuo Kurata

Bass: Chiharu Mikuzuki

Drums: Hideo Yamaki, Toru Hasebe

Guitar: Tsuyoshi Ima, Masaki Matsubara, and Jun Kakuda

Saxophone: Jake H. Conception

Manipulator: Nobuhiko Nakayama, Keiji Urata, and Jun Toyama

Chorus: Takafumi Hiyama, Yasuhiro Kido, and Junko Hirotani

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Notable quotes

“We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality.”
— Nikolai Berdyaev, in "Political Testament", as translated by E. Lampert, in World Review (March 1949)
“The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams.”
— Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (1952)
“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”
— Thomas Merton, in his final address, during a conference on East-West monastic dialogue, delivered just two hours before his death (10 December 1968), quoted in Religious Education, Vol. 73 (1978), p. 292
“Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God; it is a sincere seeking for a good thing; and it is a concentration on the thing sought, with faith that it is obtainable.”
— Peace Pilgrim, in Peace Pilgrim : Her Life and Work in Her Own Words‎ (1994), p. 75
“Change requires awareness to propel a transformation of attitude.”
— Sarah Schulman,
“Let's not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
— James Thurber, in the foreword to Lanterns & Lances (1961)

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