Devendra Banhart Quotes

To be awake is to be alive.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.

Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves.

"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."

To be awake is everything.

The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

Shake me and wake me.

Do not sleep. Be awake on your throne.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.

There's a purpose for me. And my purpose is to wake people up.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is happening, anger cannot happen. It can happen only when you are fast asleep. When you are present, immediate, transformation starts in your being, because when you are present, aware, many things are simply not possible. All that is called sin is not possible if you are aware. So, in fact, there is only one sin and that is unawareness.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

We still and always want waking.

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after incident after incident whose little explosions keep me going.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

Rose. Roza. Open your eyes." I've never heard heard his voice so strained, so frantic. "Don't go to sleep on me. Not yet.

My eyes were closed, they're open now

Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.