The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.

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.

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

Practice begins when you get it right.

In the beginning we seek truth. In the middle we seek reason. In the end we seek peace.

I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off.

I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market.

When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

It's not tragic to die doing something you love.