Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

If you want to be free, learn to live simply.

Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.

Your behaviour influences others through a ripple effect. A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerful influences.

Silence is a great source of strength.

The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.

Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.

I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

There are plenty of Christian writers out there telling people what they should think. I'm happy to be one of the Christian writers simply telling people to think. For themselves.

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.