The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

When undesirable and ugly addendum enters a man's life history, it become acceptable as part of the process of growing up.

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.

Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.

It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house.

To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

Grady Nichols is the awesome new sax player for the millennium.

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.