She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision.

Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.

Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.

Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.