Language betrays, in order to mean.

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.

All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.

Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.

It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

Have patience, heart.

I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.