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My meditation techniques ARE dangerous. In fact there cannot be any meditation techniques which are not dangerous. If they are not dangerous, they are not meditation techniques, they are tricks. Just like Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They are mental tricks. Just consolatory. No danger. At the most they can give you good sleep, that's all. If you miss, you don't miss anything, you remain the same. If you attain, you attain to good sleep, that's all. No danger involved.
Oct 1, 2025
Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.
In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.
Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.
What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.
Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.
I go to bed is around 11, and I do that for every race. I get good sleep. I don't lie awake for any race. That's my routine.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.