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There are special nightmares for the daytime sleeper: little nervous dreams tossed into some brief restless moments of unconsciousness and breaking through the surface of the mind to become confused at once with the horror of some waking vision. Such are these awakenings, like an awakening in the grave, when one opens one's eyes, stretched out rigid with clenched hands, waiting for some misery to declare itself; but for a long time it lies to suffocation upon the chest and utters no word. By Iris Murdoch Sleeper Vision Special Nightmares Daytime

Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives. By Pema Chodron Unfathomable Awakeness Pain Wisdom Weird

There are other things I newly wake with. A sadness that is different altogether from the cloudy sediment dread bears up. It is dark and solo. I can't see the bottom of it. And another thing I don't recognise, a kind of hunger to grab another person and press them as deep into knowing as I've gone. By George R R Martin Newly Wake Things Thing Sadness

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. By Adrienne Rich Disorienting Consciousness Confusing Painful Exhilarating

Finally you waken to the dream. By Pietro De La Luna Finally Dream Waken

It is time now for us to rise from sleep. By Benedict Of Nursia Sleep Time Rise

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up. By Leo Tolstoy Creepy Exist Magical Happened Dream

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped. By Patty Hearst Kidnapped Awakening

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear. By Ben Elton Gear Wake Dreams Changed

Pages burnt, memories buried, I wakeor think I'm awake. Or dreaming still? By Yong Shu Hoong Pages Burnt Memories Buried Awake

Sometimes one awakes with the knowledge that unrecallable dreams have been lining your sleep, and though you feel rested, it is the rest of one who has lived for hours in an alternate world, another realm. By Amy Rachel Peterson Sleep Rested World Realm Awakes

You are already the awakeness that you seek! By Loch Kelly Seek Awakeness

Whatever you have awakened to, you belong to. By John De Ruiter Awakened Belong

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Sleep Waking Sleeping

Startled from a bad dream, or perhaps still in one... By Courtney Maum Startled Dream Bad

Living an awakened life [ ... ] is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness and our true nature or presence to exist wonderfully well together, enriching each other through their closeness. It is through the power of our attention that we experience one or the other or both. By Alice Gardner Living Life Attention Awakened Matter

One slumber finds another. By George Herbert Slumber Finds

Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must. By Swami Vivekananda Awake Stand Fight Die

Awake and asleep the novel is with you, dogging your footsteps. Strange formless bits of material float out from the ether about you and attach themselves to the main body of the story as though they had hung suspended in air for years, waiting. By Edna Ferber Awake Dogging Footsteps Asleep Waiting

Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are. By Arjuna Ardagh Sincere Awakening Honest Inquiry Precipitated

Dreams: a door through which the dead return. By Marty Rubin Dreams Return Door Dead

Life is a series of awakenings. By Swami Mukerji Life Awakenings Series

Awakening is a bound, not weighted down with the past that inculpates the present and demands compensation from the future, a bound out of the drunkenness of remorse and resentment. Awakening is a commencement. It is a point of departure. We come alive; we become aliveto the dragonfly, to the twisted grain of the porch railing. Awakening is a birth. Awakening is joyous. The innocence of awakening, the active disconnection from the past, make possible this joy. How good to be alive! How refreshing is this silence! How calm the morning is! How pungent it smells! In every joy there is an awakening. By Alphonso Lingis Awakening Bound Future Resentment Weighted

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state. By Eckhart Tolle Wakefulness State Morning Awaken Sleep

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead,But the Master is awakeAnd he lives forever.He watches.He is clear.How happy he is!For he sees that wakefulness is life.How happy he is,Following the path of the awakened.With Great perseveranceHe meditates, seekingFreedom and happiness. By Gautama Buddha Wakefulness Life Happy Master Great

Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had the strength to rouse up, you'd slaughter your half-dreams with a buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that's burned dry. By Ray Bradbury Death Sleep Morn Full Staring

Don't let sleep overtake you; the world's awake within you. By Vasko Popa Sleep Overtake World Awake

Awakening is to become aware of your awareness.Be in the awareness of your presence, rather than being in the now. By Gian Kumar Awakening Presence Aware Awarenessbe Awareness

I have never been awake before. By Stephen Laberge Awake

I woke up, gasping for air, my disoriented mind still thinking I was sprawled out on the forest ground, freezing to death from the monsters' deathly touch. That the tan walls forming my bedroom were just an illusion. I bolted upright in my bed, my pulse racing as I untangled myself By Jessica Sorensen Gasping Air Ground Freezing Touch

Wake up - time to die. By Brion James Wake Time Die

Wake up and live By Bob Marley Wake Live

I will not let triggers, flashbacks,nightmares control my emotions.I will not let those triedto destroy me win this war.I have awakened and I willfind peace with myself. By Julie Jewels Smoot Triggers Flashbacksnightmares Control Emotionsi Triedto

Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. By Franz Kafka Slept Awoke Miserable Life

Moon woke me upnine times - still just 4 a.m. By Basho Matsuo Moon Times Woke Upnine

Nothing comes to a "sleeper" but a "dream"...wake up! By Frederick Germaine Sleeper Dream Wake

If you are already an awakened soul, Then you must realise That God has already given youA supreme task to perform:He wants you to workFor His Vision's world-blossoms. By Sri Chinmoy God Vision Soul Perform Worldblossoms

We still & always want waking. By Annie Dillard Waking

Lord God awakes my soul! By Lailah Gifty Akita God Lord Soul Awakes

What is this sleep which holds you now?You are lost in the dark and cannot hear me. By The Epic Of Gilgamesh Sleep Holds Lost Dark Hear

Dreams have a profound way of waking us up. By Eugene Knight Dreams Profound Waking

You wake, you die. By Alex Garland Wake Die

How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish. By Philip K. Dick Undisturbed Foolish Sleep

Awakening is not a process of building ourselves up but a process of letting go. It's a process of relaxing in the middle - the paradoxical, ambiguous middle, full of potential, full of new ways of thinking and seeing - with absolutely no money-back guarantee of what will happen next. By Pema Chodron Process Awakening Full Middle Building

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep. By Patti Smith Asleep Younger Felt Duty Wake

Being awake is very different than being enlightened. When we are awakened it is right here, right now, in this very life. It is being awake to, or having an awareness of, the way the world really is, and the impact we have on it and the people around us. It is also within us and not something we need to go searching for in the outside world. By Karma Yeshe Rabgye Enlightened Awake World Life Awakened

To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at the same point, knowing from grim experience, that the demons awaiting you have each to be grappled with in turn, no single one of them left unthrown, before you can win through to the peace that is utter exhaustion. By Henry Handel Richardson Night Wake Instant Edge Point

Learn to awaken within your dreams, Isobel. By Kelly Creagh Isobel Learn Dreams Awaken

To fare on - fusing the self that wakes and the self that dreams. By Nancy Horan Fusing Dreams Fare Wakes

Awake,chaos:we have napped. By E. E. Cummings Awakechaos Napped

Are you walking asleep, or living awake? By Greg Glander Asleep Awake Walking Living

In a matter of moments, I awakened to a life that wasn't mine. It was like peering into a dark hidden world that I wasn't supposed to know about and that my mind didn't want to believe existed. By Mike Ericksen Moments Mine Matter Awakened Life

The kingdom of sleep demands its forfeits, and the world looks very different through eyes cracked and yellow with its denial. By Alaya Dawn Johnson Forfeits Denial Kingdom Sleep Demands

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. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? By Henry David Thoreau Awake Millions Labor Exertion Life

Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them? By Gautama Buddha Place Rise Awaken Rest Swans

I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake. By Maria Theresa Sleep Awake Meet Death

Sleep calls to me from a land of foreign dignitaries I know not by name as I visit rarely often. The ticket in my hand, only word: "Darkness By Spider N. Mann Darkness Sleep Calls Land Foreign

Twin terrors: to be awake; to be asleep. By Gretel Ehrlich Twin Terrors Awake Asleep

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what's called at home. By Christopher Isherwood Waking Begins Awoken Lies Staring

I'm going to wake up. I'm By Daniel Clay Wake

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. By Henry David Thoreau Alive Awake Completely Met Man

I wake with a start. Today, I win her back. By E.l. James Start Today Wake Back Win

Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream. By Muso Kokushi Awakened Detachment Discrimination Realize Perceptions

It seems that I have been held in some dreaming stateA tourist in the waking world world, never quite awake.No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber,Until I realised that it was you who held me under. By Florence + The Machine Kiss Held World Dreaming Statea

Dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets By Elizabeth Chandler Dreams Secrets Shadows Cast Truth

I am free. I am haunted. But if nothing else, I am wide awake. By Anna Sheehan Free Haunted Awake Wide

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up? By Ken Burns Dead Wake Jackie Robinson Roosevelts

Awake my soul and my spirit. By Lailah Gifty Akita Awake Spirit Soul

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die. By Alex Garland Waking Life Reliable Part Built

As you transition from the past and future world of the mind to the awakened world of now, you will begin to experience yourself in an entirely new way. A way that is free of the pain and limitations of the past, and free of anxiety about the future. And you will begin to experience the abundance that is ever present in each moment. By Leonard Jacobson World Past Begin Future Experience

Resurrect the dreams that you allowed to be killed by those who never dare to dream By Saccheen Laing Resurrect Allowed Killed Dare Dreams

Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion or form. Beyond the imaginary seeker, beyond concepts and beliefs, there is a field of innocence and purity. We are this deep peace and sacredness, which is absolute and beyond all intellectual understanding. I invite you to recognize this Essence of Being and to directly realize the illusion of all psychological suffering due to misidentification, misperception of separation and attachment to conditioned thought. By Katie Davis Awakening Emotion Form Thought Waking

Child of our time, our times have robbed your cradle. Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken. By Eavan Boland Child Cradle Robbed Time Times

Sleep beckoned, warn and wide and full of welcome oblivion.It was no use. I couldn't crawl back into unconsciousness. I had too much to do. By Lilith Saintcrow Sleep Beckoned Warn Wide Full

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right ... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. By Michel De Montaigne Compared Life Dream Wake Sleep

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence ... By Annie Dillard Beauty Violence Mystery Rumors Death

The true poet dreams being awake. By Charles Lamb Awake True Poet Dreams

Awakening others is an impossible endeavor until I myself am awakened. By Pooja Ruprell Awakening Awakened Impossible Endeavor

An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in. By Jonathan Hickman Dream Ambitious Beautifully Produced Fever

Waking up was sheer delight for him: he always showed a naive and simple amazement at the discovery that he was back on earth; he was sincerely pleased. She, on the other hand, awoke with great reluctance, with a desire to stave off the day by keeping her eyes closed. By Milan Kundera Waking Earth Pleased Sheer Delight

I fell asleep dreaming and woke up alive By R.w. Erskine Alive Fell Asleep Dreaming Woke

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake; in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself. By Gustave Meyrink Man Awake Firmly Convinced Reality

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true. By Lorenz Hart Wide True Awake Make Fantastic

You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?" By Pam Brown Asleep Deep Stomach World Caves

Wake Up Winners are wide awake; they are alive. Every day you will find them in the marketplace making things happen. The real winners are not just dreamers. Although they have dreams, they are doers: They realize their dreams. They are the bell ringers, always attempting to wake others up to the numerous opportunities life offers. If By Bob Proctor Winners Awake Alive Wide Dreams

Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking.Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life.Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness.Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown By Aleister Crowley Truth Consciousness Sleep Blood Proportion

Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness. By Rumi Awake Wakefulness Asleep Dreams

It is five in the morning. I have woken up without any alarm. I have woken up because the thoughts are so loud, and none of them mean me well. By Ned Vizzini Morning Woken Alarm Loud Thoughts

I woke with a start, at first I thought I had trumped myself awake again - it was summer so there was lots of fresh vegetables in our diet. But as I listened through the darkness I realized that something far worse was going on. My mother and father were having the row to end all rows. A sudden shot of fear ripped through my pre-pubic body. And now I did trump. The noise fizzled out of my back passage like a child calling for help. That child was me. By Alan Partridge Start Diet Woke Thought Trumped

Whoever does decide to awaken should put their whole effort, attention, and life into it, in order to make it succeed. By Belsebuub Attention Effort Succeed Decide Awaken

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer By Diane Sawyer Wake Curious Answer Determined Find

Awakened at midnightby the sound of the water jarcracking from the ice By Matsuo Basho Awakened Ice Midnightby Sound Water

I remembered a few things about waking. I remembered the sense of surprise as dream life and waking life swapped primacy, and the way in which the most tangible and deeply involving dreams could bleach entirely away. By Alex Garland Remembered Waking Things Life Primacy

I'm awake, I'm alive, now I know what I believe inside, now its my time, I'll do what I want, cause this is my life! By Skillet Awake Alive Inside Time Life

To be awake is to be alive. By Henry David Thoreau Alive Awake

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up. By Josephine Baker Realise Dreams Decide Wake

When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies. By Tara Brach Sense Alive Bodies Awake World

I only wake to fall asleepAnd sleep, to awake without end. By Konstantin Batyushkov Sleep End Wake Fall Asleepand

In the morning, he had to shake her awake. When she saw him leaning over her, shirtless, his dark hair loose and disheveled, her first feeling was one of wonder. She'd dreamed she was asleep atop her feather tick, not the hard ground, and certainly not with a husband. "You're beautiful awake," he said with a knowing smile. "But you're even more beautiful asleep. By Laura Frantz Morning Awake Shake Shirtless Asleep

I made my body get up. Let's give it a go. people aren't going to come to me. I have to go to where the people are. Come on let's go. Let's share this awakening that I've attained with others. If I don't know the way, I'll ask as I go, and if I ask but there's no path, then I just need to make one and take it. By Ilchi Lee Made Body People Give Path