Awake Quotes - Page 10

• Dreams are a sweet mistake
  All dreamers must awake
  On, then, with the dance
  No backward glance
  Or my heart will break
  Never look back.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Dream, Sweet, Mistake

  "Song: 'One More Kiss'". 1987.

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• Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Coffee, Energy, Idiot

  Tahereh Mafi (2012). “Destroy Me”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.

  Evan Davis

  Sleep, Thinking, Brain

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• The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.

  Bell Hooks

  Moving, Reading, Love Is

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• A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake."

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Blessed, Buddhism

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• Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Lying, Buddhism

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• The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Buddhist, Humble

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• Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Love You, Self Worth

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• Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Doors, Mind

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• Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Horse, Sleep

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• All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit
  is to stop seeking something more or better or different,
  and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

  Adyashanti

  Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Silence

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• Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sleep, Meditation, Forever

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• Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again and again when we realize we have forgotten the miracle of being alive, and in recognizing our forgetfulness, we wake to the miracle once again. In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.

  M. J. Ryan

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Leader

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.76, Conari Press

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• In the moments we are awake to the wonder of simply being alive, gratitude flows, no matter our circumstances.

  M. J. Ryan

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Alive

  M.J. Ryan (2009). “Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.76, Conari Press

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• If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.

  Adyashanti

  Lying, Missing, Mind

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• We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes;
  Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Snakes, Hip Hop

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• Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

  Gustav Meyrink

  Dream, Sleep, Reality

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• In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

  Rachel Weisz

  Night, Reality, Upset

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• Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Mistake, Moon, Shy

  Sir W. S. Gilbert (1929). “The Mikado and other Operas”

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• If you wake up one morning realising that you do not know anything, then you are awake. If you still think you know something, then you are still asleep. If you are still trying to know, you are still trying to control. If you are still trying to control then you still think something can 'go wrong'. If you still think something can go wrong then you are not in touch with the source. If you are not in touch with the source then you live in fear. You are living in the fear that you have created, and that you are trying to get away from.

  Paul Lowe

  Morning, Fear, Thinking

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• The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.

  Herman Herst, Jr.

  Speech, Dinner, Way

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• Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You're not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems.

  Bernard Ziegler

  Jobs, Hero, Adventure

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• Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Heart, Night, Brain

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• Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

  William James

  Life, Power, Perfect

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• Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...

  John Lennon

  Letting Go, Running, Song

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