Edges Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

— Annie Dillard

“The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.”

— Ilchi Lee

We've heard from people all around the world, telling us that this is their reality. People need a way to connect the sometimes really…

— Shane Claiborne

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think…

— Anonymous

When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

— Tara Brach

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking…

— Andre Breton

Waking up is seeing yourself just as you are, not as you would like to be nor as you are afraid you might be.

— Paul Lowe

It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.

— Byron Katie

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

— Bertrand Russell

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

— George Eliot

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence...

— Annie Dillard

Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that…

— Thomas Hobbes