We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.

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 word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Now is the time to make good use of time.Today is the day to begin a perfect day.

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.

Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

I eat very clean, healthy food at all times because I'm very focused about keeping myself in shape.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.