Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

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.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

Our family love is so special, and I truly believe it is due to our work and dedication to communication and patience.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

We're showing a lot of the good signs you need for a good team, so I have high hopes.

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.