Wakefulness Quotes
28 quotes by 22 authors
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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…
— Rajneesh
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Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness.
— Rumi
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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…
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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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…
— Rumi
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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.…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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…
— Tayeb Salih
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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…
— Wasif Ali Wasif
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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till…
— Anthony de Mello
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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…
— Plotinus
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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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If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding; when you look out a window, a golf-ball-sized awareness,…
— David Lynch
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But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when you look out,…
— David Lynch
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{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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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,…
— Tara Brach
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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…
— Gustav Meyrink
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The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every…
— Frederick Douglass
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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…
— Frederick Lenz
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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
Who Wrote These Wakefulness Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 28 Wakefulness Quotes as follows: