Quotes About Awake

The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love gives again into our arms.

In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications, you are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.

There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late.

Do you drink coffee?" "Coffee is one of my major food groups." Day, Sylvia (2012-05-24). Bared to You (Crossfire, Book 1) (p. 15). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

You have gone through life in sleep, Never woken to the nightmare. I tell you, life would be unendurable If you were wide awake.

The devilish qualities, not always limited to masks, were awake and stirring.

That night you lay in bed, awake, and listened to the ambulances tear down our street. The heat of your face could have kept my room warm for days. I didn't know how you stood the heat of yourself, of your breasts, of your face. I almost couldn't touch you. Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.

He felt not so much awake as ejected bodily from sleep; his mind felt beaten clean.

THE PRACTICE OF PRESENCE invites us to a conscious relationship with God. Faith, righteous action, ethics, and social justice are all founded upon a state in which the human being remembers God. Yet, the capacity to remember God is related to the ability to be awake, to be here. To act with intention (niyah), with reflection (tafakkur), with self-vigilance (taqwa), and with beneficence (ihsan) presumes a state of conscious presence.

Life punishes us for forgetting when we should remember, sleeping when we should be awake. As we sleep – a metaphor for unconscious living and lack of awareness – black snakes of negative, hurtful thoughts and feelings slither into our bodies and our brains, multiply due to our lack of attention, and wreak havoc with our peace. Looking at it another way, we all house black snakes in our bodies and minds that only suffering can bring to consciousness and expel.

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnal round, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within I am awake repairing in dirt the frayed immaculate thread forced by being to watch the birth of suns

"Sun, don't go!" I was awakeat last. "No, go I must, they're callingme.""Who are they?"Rising he said, "Someday you'll know. They're calling to youtoo." Darkly he rose, and then I slept.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

Oh, while a man may dream awake, On gentle Irish ground, 'Tis Paradise without the snake - That's easy to be found.

M]y only route was trust: trust in a *deeper* wisdom, the wisdom responsible for making my heart beat, my eyes shine, my hair grow; trust in the infinite intelligence responsible for making my cells replicate; trust in the part of me that is awake when I'm asleep at night.

Well, best to remain vigilant. It's when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.

It is by being awake to God in us that we can increasingly see God in the world around us.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

Morning is when I'm awake, and there is dawn in me.

The Vedas say, All intelligences awake with the morning. Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.