One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

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.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

France has no friends, only interests.

One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.

Teaching is performance art.

People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.