On being "awake" ...

"To be awake is to be alive.  I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.  How could I have looked him in the face?"  --Henry David Thoreau

Well, Thoreau never met Jesus.  Or Buddha.  Among others.

"O friend, awake, and sleep no more!  The night is over and gone, would you lose your day also?  You have slept for un-numbered ages; this morning will you not awake?"  --Rabindranath Tagore