What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

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.

What bothers you today or gives you concerns could be a signpost to your purpose in life.

Science fiction is using an exploration of where we might be, to explore where it seems like we are heading, in order to reveal exactly where we are.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

I'm on a team with LeBron James and Chris Bosh, and they both dress well. It gets competitive. If I don't bring my A game, they're going to outshine me.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.