“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.”

The Christian Right and the Rising Power of the Evangelical Political Movement, (May 2005)

Fourteen Black Paintings
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

Ram Swarup: Ramakrishna Mission, p.13. (1986)

Preface
The Presidential Papers (1963)
Context: Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

St. XXXIX
Adonais (1821)
Context: Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep—
He hath awakened from the dream of life—
'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings.

Ernest Renan, at the dedication of a statue to Spinoza in 1882, as quoted in The Story of Philosophy (1962) http://caute.net.ru/spinoza/aln/durant.htm by Will Durant <br class="br">Context: Woe to him who in passing should hurl an insult at this gentle and pensive head. He would be punished, as all vulgar souls are punished, by his very vulgarity, and by his incapacity to conceive what is divine. This man, from his granite pedestal, will point out to all men the way of blessedness which he found; and ages hence, the cultivated traveler, passing by this spot, will say in his heart, &quot;The truest vision ever had of God came, perhaps, here.&quot;

Divers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divers_(Joanna_Newsom_album) (2015)

Source: On Death and Dying (1969), Ch. 9