Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
We all have nightmares, we all wake up, we all have certain ideas of something that could be hiding around the corner and the question of does that really exist, but we get on with our lives.
Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.
We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.
The madness is there, and will always be there. But it will keep sleeping, as long as I don't wake it up.
Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.
In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’
I only want to sleep. . . and never wake.
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one.
Oh Trees, Trees, Trees. . . wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me.
Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.
Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!
Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.
You've got to be committed. It comes down to setting yourself goals as an individual. In rugby you have team goals that you strive for, but you also set yourself simple goals that are achievable. It helps to write them down so you understand what you need to do, and what your focus is. Put them on your wall, then each time you wake up, you'll see them. Then you can just tick them off once you've achieved them.
He's amazing. He's a really dedicated father. I feel very blessed that every day I wake up and I live with my favourite people in the world, as well as my best friend.
When you wake up and everybody says, "How do you feel, Mike?" I say, "I'm alive. " As long as I'm alive I can deal with anything that's out there.
People always ask me, Do you ever think you'll wake up one morning and not be funny? That thought would never occur to me--it's an odd thought and not realistic. Because funny and me are not separate. We're one.
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
Why do you think you are weak? Wake up and see you have all the strength.