Consistent Quote by James R. Swartz

Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards…

— Dennis Lehane

As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective…

— Henry Reed

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of…

— Eckhart Tolle

How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?

— Nicole Krauss

It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection…

— Dalai Lama

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

— Mason Cooley

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

— Candace Bushnell

“I memorize my life so it’s still there when i arrive again in the morning.”

— Andrew Michael Roberts

Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places…

— Gaston Bachelard

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

— Paul Brunton

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down…

— Christopher Isherwood