Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

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.

Many people go through life complaining, whining, and obsessing so much about what they don’t have that they are doing exactly what it takes to block it.

Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.

I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

They say if you fall, someone who loves you will lend a hand for you, I have 8 pairs of hands always ready to hold me back up when I stumble

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures.