Quotes About Wakefulness

This unconditional wakefulness is described in the Sanskrit term bodhicitta

You do not need to fabricate at all. Once you utterly let be, involvement in thoughts of past, present and future subside. By letting be, you are no longer involved in the thoughts of the three times. When utterly letting be, wakefulness is vividly present.

Half a century after Linnaeus, Samuel Hahnemann, the homeopath, paraphrased the same thought. Coffee creates an artificially heightened sense of being, according to Hahnemann; presence of mind, alertness, and empathy are all elevated more than in a healthy natural condition; but, he goes on, these effects are unhealthy, in that they throw life off its natural rhythm, which consists in an alteration of wakefulness and sleepiness.

Living is like being tired and not being able to sleep.

It is not appropriate to act and speak like men asleep.

One ought not to act and speak like people asleep.

Sleeping people live in their own world; only those who are awake have a world in common.

Daytime sleep is not deep black; it's shallow and yellow. Our sleep is restless, the sunlight falls on our pillows. But it does make the day a little shorter.

When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.

In the garden of gentle sanity May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness. —CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE

Moon's too pretty fuh anybody tuh be sleepin' it away.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's? A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

Our whisper woke no clocks, We kissed and I was glad At everything you did, Indifferent to those Who sat with hostile eyes In pairs on every bed, Arms round each other's neck, Inert and vaguely sad.

Sleeping is time not spent living.

Instead, he functioned well on four or five hours, with an occasional six. Sleep was rest to him, yes, but it also felt like a taste of death, waking to discover that, for hours, the world had gone on just fine without him, as one day it would go on forever.

To be awake is everything.

Yet how do we do so and still avoid the madness that such wakefulness can bring on?

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

I was through with sleep. I didn't like what it brought me.

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

This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.