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«In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.»
«I saw with open eyes/ Singing birds sweet/ Sold in the shops/ For the people to eat,/ Sold in the shops of/ Stupidity Street.// I saw in a vision/ The worm in the wheat,/ And in the shops nothing/ For people to eat;/ Nothing for sale in/ Stupidity Street.»
Author: Ralph Hodgson | Keywords: for sale, open-eyed, sale, shops
«All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.»
«A monk asked Master Haryo, 'What is the way?' Haryo said, 'An open-eyed man falling into the well»
Author: Zen Koan | Keywords: eyed, monk, open-eyed, The WELL
«Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.»
«Under the opening eye-lids of the morn.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: lids, morn, open-eyed
«Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.»
«Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul... Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.»
«Test every work of intellect or faith,And everything that your own hands have wroughtAnd call those works extravagance of breathThat are not suited for such men as comeproud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.»