Awake Quotes - Page 15

• Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Long, Recipes

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• It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Mistake, Ideas, Perfect

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• When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

  Jasper Johns

  Alive, Treats, Clear

  Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”

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• There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind. The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Dream, Simple

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• To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wonderous dream arises.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Drama, Ego

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.159, Penguin

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• Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Tired, Night

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Wells, Insurmountable

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• What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.

  Mark Nepo

  Grateful, Hands, Knowing

  "The Book of Awakening". Book by Mark Nepo, abcnews.go.com. 2000.

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• If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.45, Penguin

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• The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

  Louise Hay

  Thinking, Horizon, Willing

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• If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, People, Church

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.228, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Gratitude, Kindness, Joy

  FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Jun 11, 2012

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• Be fully awake if you want to dream

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Want, Ifs

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• The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Morning, Real

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• There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Alive, Becoming, Edges

  Sue Monk Kidd (2016). “The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God

  Rumi

  Sleep, Stories, Lovers

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• When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

  Paul McCartney

  Great Day, Sake, Goodness

  Song: Great Day, Album: Flaming Pie

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• If you are living the dream, how do you know if you are asleep or awake?

  Karl Pilkington

  Dream, Knows, Do You Know

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• Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

  Margaret Feinberg

  Asking Why, Missing, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Nov 25, 2012

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• Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Dream, Sleep, Looks

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.17, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• I work out with my trainer or do an hour of pilates at 6 or 7AM. I'm done by the time my household is awake.

  David Beckham

  Work Out, Done, Pilates

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• Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead of thinking you are just a person, that appearance, you can awake to the power behind you, the safety within you, the source of inspiration and guidance at the heart of your human life. This enables you to be yourself even more so.

  Douglas Harding

  Being Yourself, Inspiration, Heart

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• There is not a day that goes by that does not include a conversation with God. There is not a day that goes by that does not contain signs. There are many days that go by on which we do not hear the conversation, do not see the signs. So stay awake.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Doe, Conversations With God, Conversation

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 06, 2016

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• If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream. You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Self, Mind

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer a routine inhalation of air but a quivering intake of life. The eye is quickened to the play of light and shade and color, the ear to the intricate medley of sound. This is where the meditation leads. Stay with it; rest with it. Notice how distraction is a flight from this, an escape from awe to worry and plans.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Eye, Light, Air

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