I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

The idea that I really like is December 21st, 2012. Try to get a global moment of collective reflection as a way to bring about an uptick in human consciousness.

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.

It is hard to put a price on some things. What is the value of having prevented nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of a dictator like Saddam Hussein - or of Gadhafi?

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

Not everyone has something to say. This will not stop them from saying it.

It [abortion] is a crime, an absolute evil.