I was awake and this was reality, the new reality of nothing--and worse, of having to continue to exist.
If you are living the dream, how do you know if you are asleep or awake?
To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times
And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake while everyone is sleeping, will not sleep, will make the shoes with the elves, will breathe deeply all the time, breathe in all the air full of glass and nails and blood, will breathe it and drink it, so rich, so when it comes we will not be angry, will be content, tired enough to go, gratefully, will shake hands with everyone, bye, bye, and then pack a bag, some snacks, and go to the volcano.
I want to meet my God awake.
When is death not within ourselves?. . . Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and alseep, young and old.
We're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works - groundbreaking, incendiary, timeless - have been pureed by the curriculum monsters into a digestible pabulum of themes and factoids we can spew back on a test. Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.
What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
Having, and seeing, your dreams is very important, and so is chasing those dreams. You see dreams when you sleep, and as you chase your dreams, it keeps you awake. So it's important to stay awake.
But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.
I am awake a lot of nights.
O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
I read to make myself feel awake.
How many women here like to have sex in the morning? Now how many like to be awake when it happens?
As we are spiritually awake and alert we see His hand across the world and we see His hand in our own personal lives.
it's not until my third cup of coffee that I am fully awake and willing to face the consequences of that condition.
Most harm is done by people who are awake.
Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.