Quotes From "Snooze: A Story Of Awakening" By Sol Luckman

The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger. Sol Luckman

In his mother’s honor, vowing not to commit the “fashionable stupidity” of ignoring things he didn’t understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real. Sol Luckman

Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly. Sol Luckman

Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect, ” in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclusion of external considerations. Sol Luckman

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history. Sol Luckman

Recalling his first dreams of flight when he was a small child, Max acknowledged that his entire existence had been building up to this tipping point where he could finally choose to release his self-imposedlimitations. Sol Luckman

He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that “spirit, ” however explained, was real, because of his own undeniable experiences–which, though he might suppress them, he couldn’t altogether erase from memory. Sol Luckman

The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly rooted in the realm of metaphysics and begged an answer to why he could do these things. Sol Luckman

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health. Sol Luckman

Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed–and it worried him. Sol Luckman

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, sociallyspeaking. Sol Luckman

Spanish–how shall I say this?–is like Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment. Sol Luckman

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before–simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him. Sol Luckman

The feeling was less like chemical intoxication than being drunk on life. Spinning round and round, he experienced absolute bliss– unadulterated and unconfined–in which he transcended his own personality and became one with everything he perceived. Sol Luckman

Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn. Sol Luckman

The fireworks went on for nearly half an hour, great pulsing strobes, fiery dandelions and starbursts of light brightening both sky and water. It was hard to tell which was reality and which was reflection, as if there were two displays, above and below, going on simultaneously–one in space-time, mused Max, and the other in time-space. Sol Luckman

In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was the Omega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the end–and that the end was just another beginning. Sol Luckman