Wakeful Quotes
27 quotes by 24 authors
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their…
— John Milton
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Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that…
— Wilder Penfield
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
— Jack Kornfield
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Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness…
— R. Scott Bakker
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Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we…
— Michael Gurian
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In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to…
— Tara Brach
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Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder -…
— Martin Heidegger
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Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust…
— Danielle LaPorte
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The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence,…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.
— Gautama Buddha
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There is not enough Bible-reading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We must actually READ it, and PRAY over it ourselves.…
— J C Ryle
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Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.
— James Norwood Pratt
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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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Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart…
— James Norwood Pratt
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These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse and seemed…
— Walter Bradford Cannon
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...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of…
— Augustus William Hare
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Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they…
— John Milton
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So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally…
— Moss Hart
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
— Herman Melville
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When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a…
— Rabindranath Tagore
Who Wrote These Wakeful Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 27 Wakeful Quotes as follows: