Waking Quotes - Page 26

• I will try to be non-violent
  one more day
  this morning, waking the world away
  in the violent day.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Morning, Trying, Violence

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.137, Northwestern University Press

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• The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When you transcend, it's the only experience that lights the full brain on an EEG machine. It's the only experience that utilizes the full brain.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Sleep, Unique

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

  Robin Meyers

  Sacred, Blind, Hours

  Robin Meyers (2010). “Morning Sun on a White Piano: Simple Pleasures and the Sacramental Life”, p.47, Galilee Trade

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• While man can still his body keep
  Wine or love drug him to sleep,
  Waking he thanks the Lord that he
  Has body and its stupidity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Sleep, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.298, Wordsworth Editions

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• Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

  Sarah Manguso

  Defense, Diaries, Wake Up

  "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary". Book by Sarah Manguso, www.theatlantic.com. March 3, 2015.

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• We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

  Joko Beck

  Pain, Freedom, Wake Up

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• Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Beautiful, Work, Home

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• Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

  William Gibson

  Dream, Sleep, Naps

  "William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211". Interviewed with David Wallace-Wells, www.theparisreview.org. 2011.

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• The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be conscious of the immediate transition from the waking to the sleeping state.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Death, Sleep, Transition

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.19

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• It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.

  Dalai Lama

  Dream, Memories, Mind

  "Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with The Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism". Book by 14th Dalai Lama, 1999.

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• In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe.

  Yamada Koun

  Drinking, Sleep, Laughing

  Koun Yamada (2005). “The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Names, Legs

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• A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.

  Amanda Schull

  Children, Years, Careers

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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• The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.

  Charles Hazlewood

  People, Perspective, Community

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• The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.

  Michael Huffington

  Spiritual, Jobs, Order

  "For What Profits A Man If He Gains The Whole World But Loses His Own Soul" by Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2008.

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• And God must be a pretty big fan of today, because you keep waking up to it. You have made known your request for a hundred different yesterdays, but the sun keeps rising on this thing that has never been known. Yesterday is dead and over. Wrapped in grace. Those days are grace. You are still alive, and today is the most interesting day. Today is the best place to live.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Yesterday, Interesting, Grace

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.32, Penguin

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• I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping.

  Brice Marden

  Dream, Sleep, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  One Day, Musician, Different

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• High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. It's at the time where everybody is waking up with different opinions every day, and you're on this learning curve of who you are and who you want to be, and you're comparing yourself with every other male and female around you. There's no sense to it.

  Kristen Bell

  School, Curves, Insecurity

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Dream, Morning

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• I just love life. I'm excited about things in life. I think that if you're excited about life, you are excited about waking up and doing things with your life every day.

  Salma Hayek

  Love Life, Thinking, Things In Life

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• There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.

  Harry Shearer

  Emotional, Guy, Would Be

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• I like smoking at home. I like it to be one of the last things I do that day. I don't wake and bake at all; I couldn't do that. If I'm waking and baking, then I'm staying inside my place the rest of the day. I can't start my day off high.

  Hannibal Buress

  Home, Smoking, Days Off

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• I usually record all through the night, but I'm known for waking up early in the morning. Even if I had recorded till 3 or 4 in the morning I might wake up at 9 or 10. I never sleep till 1 o clock.

  Gucci Mane

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• People are waking up in their homes - without conferences. They're waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called "Body and Soul."

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Home, People, Soul

  Source: www.mightycompanions.org

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