What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

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.

If you won’t trust yourself, nobody else will.

With tact, exit from the world I’ve created, and we never have to speak of those good times again.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.