These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.

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.

You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.

Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack.

My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Physician, heal thyself.

There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

I'm not greedy. I just want my half.

Focus on the present moment. Stay in the moment.