The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.

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.

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

Begin early to teach, for children begin early to sin.

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don’t talk of them, I prefer talking to them

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt.

The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.