No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.

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.

Here, in this quiet place we own, worlds are born.

In every dream, there lays a cost to be paid. The potency and relevance of your ideas will determine the cost to be paid!

A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness.

California's 74-year-old Senator Barbara Boxer announced she will not run for re-election in 2016. When I saw the headline '74-Year-Old Boxer,' I assumed they were making another 'Rocky' movie.

Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.

Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.