You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

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.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.