The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

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.

I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don't want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

Of course we're still having the concert. Don't let a little rain ruin your night.

When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?

I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.