Being present Quote by waking life

To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in…

— Jerome Frank

In real life, I first started sleep walking in high school because that was when this concept of getting into college first appeared. I…

— Mike Birbiglia

“Or, if needing years to wake thee From thy slumbrous solitudes, Come, sleep-walking, and betake thee To the friendly, sleeping woods. Sweeter dreams are…

— George MacDonald

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a…

— Derek Walcott

“Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?”

— C S Lewis

My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to go to…

— Dustin Yellin

“So let me get this straight," he says. "Death is the only destination and nothing else is real because it's not perfect or final?"…

— Autumn Doughton

“In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to go off on its own so…

— Thomas Moore

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all…

— Anonymous

“I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.”

— Tobe Hanson

“Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying attention to what they are doing.”

— Tobe Hanson

“We’re so caught up in trying to do everything, experience all the essential things, not miss out on anything important...We can’t read all the…

— Leo Babauta