The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

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.

Our hearts may be strong and resilient against the trials of life, but they become weak and fragile against the trials of love.

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.

You can break through every barrier with persistent effort.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

There is no grief like heartbreak.

Kill them with success and bury them with a big smile

Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.