History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to 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.

I believe great things are ahead for each of us. Now we just have to go ahead and create them.

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles

It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.