Quotes About Wakefulness

sleep comes hard. I'd rather lie awake and read.

My sister could fall asleep at the drop of a hat. She would fall asleep on the train. Me, I never slept. Still. I have a hard time sleeping. But I used to admire her ability to wake up late.

Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.

I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won't say I rested.

SLEEP, for you are not yet dead.

He continued to lie there, like someone lying awake at four o'clock in the morning, unable to put his mind to rest, but unable to find anything to do with it.

Like many old people she slept lightly and had periods of wakefulness which she used for the planning of some action or actions to be carried out on the next or following days.

I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.

Consciousness is that annoying time between naps.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

A true watchdog sleeps with all his senses or the very edge of wakefulness. And when he wakens, he does not waken as do we humans;—yawningly, dazedly, drunk with slumber. At one moment he is sound asleep. At the next he is broad awake; with every faculty alert.

The strange amber twilight I'd lived with was gone, and in its place was some terrible new brightness. I'd gone from feeling lost in a dream to lost in wakefulness, as if I might never sleep again.

No habían perdido ni un minuto de su valioso tiempo en dormir.

The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend and include all state-realms, so it ceases to "black out" or "forget" various changes of state (such as dreaming and deep sleep), and instead recognizes a "constant Consciousness" or ever-present nondual Awareness, the union (and transcendence) of individual finite self and infinite Spirit.

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

We could go up to the top of the hill, and restructure our entrance, do away with the contradiction of being nowhere but here, the assumed proportion of a presence that will always escape, of being nowhere but near the presumed indifference that solicits our wakefulness. Day begins its indiscreet translation once again, flowing through the pearl white of loss, or the indelible deep blue of fractured words. Remove emptiness. Replace nothing.

It's four A.M.! Who goes to bed this early!?

It's not so hard to figure out why I'm not sleeping. What I can't figure out is why everybody else is sleeping.

I had a wakefulness that I could not shake, and I was still drunk.

The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

Arise, we have eternity for sleeping!' OMAR KHAYYAM