I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

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.

Freedom means either be mindful or do not mind.

Wisdom is the ability to read the unwritten.

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

Bird's mind and fingers work with incredible speed. He can imply four chord changes in a melodic pattern where another musician would have trouble inserting two.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

You know a multicolor God who created this world is not going to put us in a white heaven. I guarantee you. But we're going to serve Him in heaven. So what does God want us to do? Practice.

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.