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“The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self”

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Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara, an influential Indian philosopher active from 788 to 820 AD, is considered one of the most important thinkers in the history of Indian philosophy. His ideas profoundly impacted Indian philosophy, logic, and theology. more

“Sleep is really important. You need to rest the physiology to be able to work weel and meditate well. When I don't get enough sleep, my meditations are duller. You may even dip into sleep at the beginning of your meditation, because you're settling down. But if you're well rested, you'll have a clearer deeper experience.”

Ifs Needs Wells May Important Enough Able Sleep Meditation Deeper Settling Dip Settling Down Physiology Enough Sleep

Author:David Lynch

“Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.”

Self Sleep Progress Movement Organization Wake Up Expansion Going To Sleep Joining

Book:Commentaries on Living

Source: Commentaries on Living

“It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.”

Doe Sleep Poor Wonder Failing Invites Decline Subconscious Naps Reverie

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.”

“Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? All day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade.”

Ifs World Soul Night Sleep Feet Quiet Ears Dancing Fades Particles Day And Night Daylight

Author:Rumi

“If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.”

Ifs States Sleep Distracted

Book:Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness

Source: Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness

“My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.”

Sleep Invites Bees

Book:The Poetical Works of William Shenstone. With the Life of the Author and a Description of the Leasowes. [Edited by R. Dodsley.]

Source: The Poetical Works of William Shenstone. With the Life of the Author and a Description of the Leasowes. [Edited by R. Dodsley.]

“I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.”

Children Fronts Cameras Imaginative Theatrical Make Believe

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.”

Night Stars Sleep Train Great Gifts

Book:The amateur emigrant. Across the plains. The silverado squatters

Source: The amateur emigrant. Across the plains. The silverado squatters

“Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

Knows Lasts Born Hours Sleep Century Twenties Rounds Beast Nightmare Rough Cradle Bethlehem

Author:William Butler Yeats

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