Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

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.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.

Having a passive personality, is a soft way to live a dead life.

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.

This life is a process of learning.

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.