Bette Midler Quotes

I like to see the people awake and alert.

I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

Edward was always focused, watching and also listening to what others couldn't see.

You are before being and not being, awake and dream take place in time. You have no time.

Ah, pray no mistake, We are not shy; We're very wide awake The Moon and I.

I keep my eyes wide open all the time.

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is everywhere, saying, "I am." The moment you feel "I am," you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

"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."

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

Only in unawareness you are mortal. In awareness you are immortal.

You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know.

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

We die, and we do not die.

As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.

The consciousness of life is higher than life.