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  • "More Stars" (All Saints 'Day) and "Wakefulness" (The Annunciation) are reminiscences of Charles Coleridge Pode, a little nephew of Mr. Yonge, and his ecstatic joy on the first night of being out of doors late enough to see the glory of the stars.

    John Keble's Parishes Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Called Thought-Free Wakefulness, it offers the profoundity and clarity of two great Tibetan meditation traditions, Dzogchen and Mahamudra.

    Shambhala SunSpace » Melvin McLeod 2009

  • Wakefulness came to him once during the middle of the night when he urinated into the metal pan he held between his naked thighs, and while the drops congealed between his fingers and the pin-oak tree bent outside in the wind, he slipped into a dream as bright and clearly etched in its sequence as a lucifer match touching a candle.

    The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

  • Called Thought-Free Wakefulness, it offers the profoundity and clarity of two great Tibetan meditation traditions, Dzogchen and Mahamudra.

    Shambhala SunSpace » 2008 » October 2008

  • Unlike other Beings in lower spheres of existence, they that are effulgent or Sukla do not regard the states of Wakefulness and

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • _Here is suggested the fourth stage: Wakefulness_.

    Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Kalidasa

  • _ Wakefulness is sometimes due to reflex nervous causes such as the need for circumcision, or the presence of adenoids, enlarged tonsils or worms.

    The Mother and Her Child William S. Sadler

  • The number becomes doubled when the state of Dream is taken into consideration, for like Wakefulness existing with the 29,

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Hence, the para gati of such Beings is a state of existence that transcends both Wakefulness and Dream, and transcends Dreamless slumber also (for in Dreamless slumber the 30 exist suspended, to be revived with the return of wakefulness), and is identical with the fourth state called Turiya.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Wakefulness came vividly to her only with the beginnings of twilight.

    The Sky Line of Spruce Edison Marshall 1930

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