We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.

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.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, the whole palace is upset. “You must go back to sleep, ” her mother tells her, “It’s not time.” From what she understands, the Prince hasn’t come to rescue her yet.

Walk in the way of light.

Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.

A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.