Awake Quotes - Page 23

• Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.

  Joan Larkin

  Growing, Guru, Lows

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.

  Mark Nepo

  Confused, Believe, Practice

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

  Aaron Belz

  Fun, Alternatives, Surprise

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain,
  Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain;
  Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise!
  Each stamps its image as the other flies!

  Samuel Rogers

  Brain, Links, Stamps

  Samuel Rogers (1802). “The Pleasures of Memory ... By the author of "An Ode to Superstition, with some other poems" i.e. Samuel Rogers . Fourth edition”, p.14

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• Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma. ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Memories, Ocean, Fog

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.51, Penguin

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• This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment.
  All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it.
  It doesn't know where to find it.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Mind, Looks

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• To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at the same point, knowing from grim experience, that the demons awaiting you have each to be grappled with in turn, no single one of them left unthrown, before you can win through to the peace that is utter exhaustion.

  Henry Handel Richardson

  Sleep, Winning, Night

  Henry Handel Richardson (pseud.) (1930). “The fortunes of Richard Mahony: comprising Australia Felix, The way home, Ultima Thule”

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• However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way
  Shines bright over the world.
  But day and night the person who is awake
  Shines in the radiance of the spirit.
  Meditate.
  Live purely.
  Be quiet.
  Do your work, with mastery.
  Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!
  Shine!

  Gautama Buddha

  Moon, Night, Shine Bright

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• You're only awake when you realise you're awake and when you're dreaming, it is just as real, whatever happens is just as real - whether you actually do die in a dream or fulfil whatever you're doing in a dream, it's, there's nobody to tell me it isn't as real as this now, because how do you know?

  John Lennon

  Dream, Real, Whatever Happens

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• Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

  Byron Katie

  Life Changing, Believe, Cells

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Flower, Heart, Cat

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• Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Morning, Lying, Night

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.45, The Floating Press

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• I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.

  Maria Theresa

  Sleep, Wish, Last Words

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• How many women here like to have sex in the morning? Now how many like to be awake when it happens?

  Marsha Warfield

  Morning, Sex, Happens

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• Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.

  Stephanie March

  Children, Heart, Night

  "‘¿Por qué me Quieres?’ Reflections on the 2010 World of Children Awards" by Stephanie March, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2010.

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• The New World Order run by the United Nations ain't gonna happen. Because they've shown their hand, and at least some corner of Congress and the American people are awake to it: they've blown it all.

  Michael Moriarty

  Running, Hands, Order

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• A dream project is anything I do when I'm awake.

  Charles Fleischer

  Dream, Projects

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• it's not until my third cup of coffee that I am fully awake and willing to face the consequences of that condition.

  Laura Bohannan

  Coffee, Faces, Cups

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• Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Goal, Despair, Razors

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.45, editionNEXT.com

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• I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

  Jennifer Niven

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.126, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• One mind awake can become stronger than a thousand zombies sleepwalking in a dying civilization.

  Alex Smith

  Civilization, Zombie, Mind

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• I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.

  Nikola Tesla

  Air, Space, Trying

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• Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them; as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Sunshine, Moon

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad base spreads over a village or two, which does not know it; neither does it know them, nor do I when I ascend it. I can see its general outline as plainly now in my mind as that of Wachusett. I do not invent in the least, but state exactly what I see. I find that I go up it when I am light-footed and earnest. It ever smokes like an altar with its sacrifice. I am not aware that a single villager frequents it or knows of it. I keep this mountain to ride instead of a horse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Horse, Knowledge

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• We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Opinion, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.391, Library of America

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