The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

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.

Fill my mouth with the accuracy and potency of Your word and Spirit that I may make war through prayer with swift precision (Psalm 144:1).

Somebody once told me the definition of hell:“On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” — Anonymous

Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.

The conscience of this nation is the Constitution.

There are people who are waiting for me. I can only continue living when I stand onstage.