History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

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.

There’s no rerun of life. Rejoice while there’s breathe.

The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.

The real form of abuse is not a physical torture

To actively improve the worldand change your life as well, speak all the good you know, and all the bad refuse to tell.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

Take care of yourself, and do unto others as you would have done to you.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

An active and creative reader is a re-reader.