We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

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.

Hope can be the strongest if you believe it to be.

Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.