Quotes About Awareness

I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

Just to say 'woke' is to always be in a constant stream of consciousness where you don't feel like the wool is pulled over your eyes so much. You question your belief that everything should just be presented to you on this beautiful plate. Everything is not as it seems.

I can't have wet wool next to my skin because it really affects it.

A word to the wise is enough.

During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it.

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.

The word 'midget' is a slur. It evolved from P. T. Barnum's era of circuses and freak shows. Society has evolved. So should our vocabulary. Language is a powerful tool. It does not just name our society. It shapes it.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls tend to have an easy-going way with words.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.