Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be?

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously?

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic.