“Half the people who claim they're awake aren't even half awake.”

Someone who is truly "enlightened" or "awake" doesn't walk around saying so, they just are.

The ones who refuse to admit to themselves that they are wrong and are unwilling to change, even after sufficient evidence is presented...paint a vivid mental picture. Like walking confidently through sludge up to their ears while holding their heads up high declaring victory.

The thing is, when you're brainwashed, you don't know you're brainwashed.

And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? / And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

I am half asleep but the negotiations are wide awake.