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I'm dreaming that I am awake.
By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.
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?"
Are you walking asleep, or living awake?
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
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.
The sleeper dreamed.
What is this sleep which holds you now?
You are lost in the dark and cannot hear me.
Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.
Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.
Awoke from nightmare could be a relief.
Awakening is dynamic, Constantly evolving in accordance with life's realities
Wakeful nights often give people useless thoughts.
i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain ...
Nothing comes to a "sleeper" but a "dream"...wake up!
Twin terrors: to be awake; to be asleep.
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?
Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.
Again from its brumal sleep
It is time now for us to rise from sleep.
Awake,chaos:we have napped.
A nightmare might force you awakened.
The tough life might force you awakened.
The wakefulness was always there beside me. I could feel its chilling shadow. It was the shadow of myself. Weird, I would think as the drowsiness overtook me, I'm in my own shadow. I would walk and eat and talk to people inside my drowsiness.
To sleep perchance to dream
Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping ...
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.
Awaken my spirit.
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.
Every day I have to be awake to escape ... The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.
I'm awake and I can't sleep. The more I'm awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.
To fully appreciate the Sleep, you had to embrace the Wake and all its drudgery.
Awaken and rejoice. Awaken and be alive. Awaken to the possibility of being fulfilled.
This is more than an experience in the shadows of sleep.
One slumber finds another.
A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
Life is the constant opportunity to wake up.
Wake late, win late.
I am a restless person.
Sleep, elusive as a ghost, plaintive as a widow, and as easy to hold as the wind.
The true poet dreams being awake.
I have never been awake before.
Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.
I am trapped somewhere between consciousness and sleep; a waif-like creature who could easily be carried off by a strong wind, and who would welcome the distraction from her ravaged heart.
An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in.
Don't let sleep overtake you; the world's awake within you.
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.
You are already the awakeness that you seek!
Sleep is out ... tired is the new black.
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.
I am an insomniac.
... we whose task is wakefulness itself have inherited all the strength which has been cultivated by the struggle against this error.
Dreams have a profound way of waking us up.
In a world of sleepwalkers an awakened mind is a teacher and a catalyst for new awakenings, whether they want to be or not.
Waking up begins with 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.
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.
The sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, the whole surroundings of which I formed but an insignificant pat and whose unconsciousness I should very soon return to share.
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer
Sometimes i only sleep to wake up
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
We still and always want waking. We should amass half dressed in long lines like tribesmen and shake gourds at each other, to wake up; instead we watch television and miss the show.
The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.
The world is a asleep, but you don't have to be.
And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.
I'm afraid I'm a restless person
It is not true as is romantically presumed that people frightened or injured or persecuted are wakeful. More often than not they retire into sleep to be free of trouble for a time.
Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.
Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.
Startled from a bad dream, or perhaps still in one...
For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.
Be fully awake if you want to dream
You wake, you die.
He'd woken me from a dreamless sleep, and I couldn't roll over and close my eyes, because in my wakefulness, I'd started dreaming.
I'd been sleeping for twenty-two years. I felt like, for the first time in my life, I was finally conscious. Life was finally happening. I was making it happen. I
Death's brother, sleep.
no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns
Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?
Awaken my strength.
Awakening is to become aware of your awareness.
Be in the awareness of your presence, rather than being in the now.
The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.
Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.
A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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.
This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.
When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!
An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.
Every time I wake, I understand how easy it is to be nothing
Waking up from a deep, healing sleep reminds me of rushing toward the surface of a lake, brightness beckoning from above and bubbles fizzing all around me. Consciousness
Wake a question. Eat an instant, answer
Learn to awaken within your dreams, Isobel.
Each soul must awaken from the aloneness of a private dream world to greet the morning sun, view the sweet earth, apprehend the great silence, and demonstrate an appreciative thanks to everyday of life by living in a rapt state of attentive awareness.
Life is a series of awakenings.
The revelations of God can come to you in a state of wakefulness or in sleep
We are half awake and semi conscious.
Those who wake...do not regret the dream.
Those who wake at this hour feel a lonely separation from everyone but night birds and ghost crabs, never imagining the legion of kindred souls scattered in the darkness, who stare at ceilings and pace floors and look out windows and covet and worry and mourn.