Top 61 Quotes About Wakefulness

#1. The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

Oliver O'Donovan

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#2. Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness.

Henry David Thoreau

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#3. Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars ... that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.

Frederick Lenz

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#4. Instead of getting drowsier she was getting more awake - with an odd night-time, dreamish kind of wakefulness.

C.S. Lewis

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#5. Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.

Tara Brach

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#6. In the garden of gentle sanity,
May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness.

Chogyam Trungpa

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#7. Wakefulness is not a destination but a song the human heart keeps singing, the way birds keep singing at the first sign of light.

Mark Nepo

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#8. We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.

Amy Hardie

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#9. O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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#10. Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.

Anthony De Mello

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#11. The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

Enza Vita

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#12. I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

Frederick Lenz

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#13. The day coming to her in small, liquid moments, sleep slipping into wakefulness like the slow merging of two steams.
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Erica Bauermeister

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#14. The revelations of God can come to you in a state of wakefulness or in sleep

Sunday Adelaja

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#15. Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together.

Robin Craig Clark

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#16. Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

Gustave Meyrink

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#17. I sensed them creeping around in the living room as my body shot to instant wakefulness. It probably sounds weird, but I could hear them breathing

Robert J. Crane

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#18. Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.

Elizabeth Lesser

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#19. He could scarcely distinguish between sleep and wakefulness now, on the third day, found no important differences, either, between walking and standing still.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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#20. Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

John Piper

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#21. There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness - (if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time).

Roman Payne

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#22. If you can bring some quality to the last moment of transition from wakefulness to sleep, that quality will continue through sleep, always. That's exactly what will happen with death also. If at the final moment a certain quality is brought in, that quality will continue.

Sadhguru

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#23. My mother's hand strokes my cheek and I don't push it away as I would in wakefulness, never wanting her to know how much I crave that gentle touch. How much I miss her even though I still don't trust her.

Suzanne Collins

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#24. Permanence in the land of sleep is better than gold in the world of wakefulness.

Jonathan L. Howard

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#25. I cannot do this anymore. I cannot pull myself together again and spend the next fifteen hours of wakefulness fending off the fact of my own misery.

Zoe Heller

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#26. The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

Frederick Douglass

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#27. In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.

Robin Hobb

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#28. Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day."
Eve: "Up yours.

J.D. Robb

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#29. The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

Wasif Ali Wasif

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#30. Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves.

Rajneesh

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#31. The wakefulness was always there beside me. I could feel its chilling shadow. It was the shadow of myself. Weird, I would think as the drowsiness overtook me, I'm in my own shadow. I would walk and eat and talk to people inside my drowsiness.

Haruki Murakami

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#32. Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

Eckhart Tolle

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#33. ... we whose task is wakefulness itself have inherited all the strength which has been cultivated by the struggle against this error.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#34. Like many old people she slept lightly and had periods of wakefulness which she used for the planning of some action or actions to be carried out on the next or following days.

Agatha Christie

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#35. Awareness is wakefulness. Wakefulness is consciousness. Consciousness is limitless awareness.

Frederick Lenz

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#36. You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

Frederick Lenz

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#37. We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing ... a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

Plotinus

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#38. The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience.

Tara Brach

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#39. In the hovering between sleep and wakefulness, lucid but dreaming, Luce's mind got away from her, and all kinds of empty shit she had meant to put entirely behind her forever swam up and lived in her head again.

Charles Frazier

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#40. Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

Ram Dass

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#41. We're here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation, and some sense of general wakefulness.

Pema Chodron

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#42. Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.

Rumi

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#43. I cannot write about Venice; I can only write about me, and the sleeping parts of myself that Venice has shocked into wakefulness.

Jessica Zafra

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#44. You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?"

Pam Brown

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#45. Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

Eckhart Tolle

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#46. He'd woken me from a dreamless sleep, and I couldn't roll over and close my eyes, because in my wakefulness, I'd started dreaming.

C.D. Reiss

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#47. The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.

Frederick Lenz

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#48. The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure

Chogyam Trungpa

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#49. Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness.

Rumi

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#50. May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

Anthony Liccione

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#51. The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

Frederick Douglass

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#52. The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us - it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

Lama Surya Das

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#53. I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

Tayeb Salih

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#54. Gospel wakefulness means treasuring Christ more greatly and savoring his power more sweetly.

Jared C. Wilson

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#55. When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night.

Brandon Sanderson

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#56. More and more you empty your mind, more and more you come closer to the spirit in the body.

Roshan Sharma

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#57. Physical body is just an instrument, through which you experience life. You have the awareness field, along with the physical body to experience life, while the entire major functions of the physical body, is performed by the subtle strings of the soul.

Roshan Sharma

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#58. The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Idries Shah

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#59. To be active is to be awake, spiritually and physically.

Marty Rubin

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#60. I never was so immensely tickled by anything I had ever said before. I actually woke up twice during the night, and laughed till the bed shook.

George Grossmith

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#61. I had been feeling that it was more important for me to understand how much Jesus loved me than it was for me to figure out how to love Him.

Jared C. Wilson

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