Waking Quotes - Page 28

• This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Morning, Jesus, Israel

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• The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many waking hours in the home as in the school, and 126 times as many hours in the home as in the church. Each child is, to a great degree, what he is because of the ever-constant influence of home environment and the careful or neglectful training of parents. Home is the best place for the child to learn self-control, to learn that he must submerge himself for the good of another. It is the best place in which to develop obedience, which nature and society will later demand.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Teaching, Home

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• I wish to be up and doing. I wish to face each day with resolution and purpose. I wish to use every waking hour to give encouragement, to bless those whose burdens are heavy, to build faith and strength of testimony.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Work, Giving

  "Testimony". Ensign magazine, p. 69, May 1998.

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• The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was like waking up to find that your reflection in the mirror had aged overnight, or had sprouted a new mole: You were forced to admit that things changed, whether you gave them permission to or not.

  Lauren Oliver

  Reflection, Mirrors, House

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

  Tom Hanks

  Choices, Wake Up, World

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• The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence the delicate balance of consciousness and the interplay it has on matter in the waking state, and is thus an opportunity to test one's ability in the art of adjusting the mutable fabric of Maya.

  Zeena Schreck

  Dream, Art, Unique

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• Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Wake Up, Serious, Remember

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• Whether you have been aware of your thoughts in the past or not, now you are becoming aware. Right now, with the knowledge of The Secret, you are waking up from a deep sleep and becoming aware!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Sleep, Law Of Attraction, Past

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• As for herself, every morning on waking she gives thanks to the God she doesn't disbelieve in. Although she can't credit him with saving her, she needs this outlet for her gratitude.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Gratitude, Morning, Giving

  A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.242, Hachette UK

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• Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
  The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
  I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  
  Great Nature has another thing to do
  To you and me, so take the lively air,
  And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
  
  This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
  What falls away is always. And is near.
  I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  I learn by going where I have to go.

  Theodore Roethke

  Fall, Sleep, Light

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.165, Anchor

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• Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophy, Differences, Wake Up

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• and how we are all preparing for that abrupt waking, and that calling, and that moment we have to say yes, except it will not come so grandly, so Biblically, but more subtly and intimately in the face of the one you know you have to love

  David Whyte

  Faith, Calling, Faces

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• Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Real, Lying, Giving

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• Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and it can bring into the field of waking consciousness many drives, emotions and complexes which were creating difficulties in the unconscious.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Healing, Creating, Fields

  Roberto Assagioli (2000). “Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings”, Synthesis Center

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• Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

  Caprice Bourret

  Morning, Wake Up, Excited

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• Death for the Christian is to fall asleep in the arms of Jesus and waking up and finding out that you're home.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Jesus, Fall

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• We feel like "Lost" deserved a real resolution, not a "snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black" kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.

  Carlton Cuse

  Dream, Betrayal, Real

  "Talking 'Lost' with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse". Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Death, Fall, Ignorance

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

  Rene Descartes

  Love, Dream, Ontology

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• I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.

  Sheryl Crow

  People, Different, Wake Up

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• Keep wondering whether your waking reality is a dream and you will wake up to the real.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Dream, Real, Wake Up

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.86, Arktos

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• We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Sleep, Moments

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2005). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.124, Prestwick House Inc

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• I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Life, Morning, Believe

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• Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Waking Life, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Dream, Dark, Long

  "Nerilka's Story". Book by Anne McCaffrey, March 1986.

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