The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.

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.

A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

Absolute money (gold) makes limited-states and localized-wars (Pre-1913)

Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

Our overvaluation of speed (time here as only money) has robbed us of many things that are at least equally precious.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.