#awake

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#all night #awake #bad #bed #books

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#broad #everything #exists #intoxicate #kind

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#awake #first #go #good #good husband

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#birds #earlier #matter #morning #shame

I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can't make you forget. ↗

— Shelly Crane

#love #mason #shelly-crane #wide-awake #love

(Whisper)There is no effort needed to become aware, just the attention directed inward towards the feelings and the life force. You only have to pray, beg, obey and follow the commandments of those ideas and thoughts that are worshiped in the mind and imagination. There you can be a prisoner and play the game according to their rules. It is far better to feel the life within you and observe your reactions to it, than to analyze and compare your life to others and their experiences. One requires the dignity and self-trust within of your own life experience and the other requires that you surrender your dignity and intelligence to others who say they are more qualified then you concerning your life experiences. The mind makes everything difficult in its search for truth and meaning, while the heart reveals to us the simplicity of the truth within us. Pay attention to your feelings, they reveal how you think and how far out of touch you can be with yourself. They can also reveal a healing wholeness when you let go and allow the god within you to reveal the mystery within the silence of you. ↗

— Robert Cosmar

#awareness #love #truth #wisdom #experience

No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to light your own lamp. You have to know the miniature universe that you yourself are. ↗

— Banani Ray

#guru #inspirational #salvation #inspirational

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#inspiration #inspirational

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good. ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#beyond #confess #does #good #heart

There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew. ↗

— William Cartwright

#awakened #births #born #both #count