Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.

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.

Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.

And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye to restore it and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

No day is so bad that it can not be fixed by a good nap.

We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.

One of my students told me that every time she learns the name of a plant, she feels as if she is meeting someone new. Giving a name to something is a way of knowing it.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!