Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

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.

Beyond the visible is invisible.

Prayer can guarantee anyone's success but never someone's failure

Ignore the negativity in your life. Right now I'm taking bullets for other people and sometimes in life that's where courage comes from.

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

and as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, i realize that i never saw true beauty until now.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.