Awake Quotes - Page 25

• That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

  Edmund Burke

  People, Liberty, Spirit

  Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.338, Cambridge University Press

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• I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.

  Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami

  Sleep, Thinking, Records

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• Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Real, Men, Knowing

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

  William Faulkner

  Evil, Done, Littles

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.172, Modern Library

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• If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Morning, Brother, Lying

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

  Louis Riel

  Art, Sleep, Years

  "The Defiant Imagination: Why Culture Matters". Book by Max Wyman, p. 85, 2004.

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• Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Past, Reality, Dwelling

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• The golden moment when I’m not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget.

  Sonya Sones

  Golden Moments, Remember, Forget

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• Still, there is something emboldening about being awake when the rest of the world is sleeping. Like I know something they don't.

  Craig Silvey

  Sleep, World, Stills

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• Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Desire, World

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• We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep.
  Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep.
  While the media elite declare what to think,
  I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink.

  Otep Shamaya

  Sleep, Thinking, Sheep

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• Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.

  Pema Chodron

  Emotional, Down And, Way

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• The peoples are not awake...[There are dangers] which will render a world organization impossible.
  I foresee the renewal of...the secret bargaining behind closed doors. Peoples will be as before,
  the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
  International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries,
  established by the peoples and for the peoples.

  Henri La Fontaine

  Country, Sheep, Doors

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• The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more exact, absolute power, when through its results which are identical with those of opium, it puts all parts of humanity to sleep. If some occasionally awake they carry out crimes that horrify humanity which has not yet become Christian in the full sense of the word or has already abandoned the Christian framework.

  Bruno Bauer

  Christian, Real, Sleep

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• When I'm awake all night, sometimes I see the people and the city waking up around me. I feel a little bit moody at them for stepping into my night-time. What I want is that feeling when you're in the rain, or a storm. It's a shiver at the edge of your mind, an atmosphere of hearing a sad, distant sound, but it seems closer - like it's just for you. Like hearing rain or a whale-song, a cry in the dark, the far cry.

  Burial

  Song, Rain, Dark

  "Only five people know I make tunes". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though I'm not sure that's right

  Derrick Jensen

  Morning, Writing, Blow

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• Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.

  Geneen Roth

  Healing, Broken, Whole

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2013

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• Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

  Geneen Roth

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• If youre not living awake to the fact the life can change in a dime, then youre living asleep.

  Kristine Carlson

  Dimes, Facts, Ifs

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• When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.

  Andy Behrman

  Eyelashes, Sound, Thunder

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• I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing--and worse, of having to continue to exist.

  Tony Hendra

  Reality

  Tony Hendra (2004). “Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Faith”, p.88, Random House

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• To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths - good and terrible, overwhelming and miniscule. To eat passionately is to allow the world in; there can be no hiding or sublimation when you're chewing a mouthful of food so good it makes you swoon.

  Kate Christensen

  World, Taste, Hiding

  "Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites". Book by Kate Christensen, www.npr.org. July 9, 2013.

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• The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Dream, Love Is

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.107, Routledge

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• Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Realization

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.1, New Directions Publishing

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• Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn’t do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects, because in that process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Keys, Confusion, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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