"We worship the beautiful, naked, sexy goddess that is desire."
-Bhagavan Das
"We keep looking to others to find happiness. And who is other? We are. We are other."
-Bhagavan Das
-Bhagavan Das
"We keep looking to others to find happiness. And who is other? We are. We are other."
-Bhagavan Das
"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war"
-ancient proverb
"If someone hurts you, so be it. Let it go immediately. If you hold on to the fact that they hurt you, every time you think about it, you are allowing them to hurt you again and again. But if you can let go of it then they truly only hurt you once."
-Buddhist Monk
"Most people want happiness but run toward suffering."
-Buddhist Monk
"Creation comes out of emptiness and there is nothing missing from it"
-Stanislav Grof
"If we could just stop giving ourselves such a hard time, what a vacation this life would be."
-Krishna Das
"I know what’s coming. I know no one beats these odds and I know it’s a matter of getting used to that and realizing that you are expelled from your mother’s uterus as if shot from a cannon towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks. It’s a matter of how you use up the intervening time in an intelligent and ironic way; and try not to do anything ghastly to your fellow creatures."
-Christopher Hitchens
"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
-William James
"Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness humorously."
-Principia Discordia
"Even the biggest man. Him was once a baby."
-Bob Marley
"Anxiety comes when we fundamentally distrust ourselves."
-Alan Watts
"Better to live short life doing things you love than a long life doing things you hate."
-Alan Watts
"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit---to the "conquest" of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."
-Alan Watts
"The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever."
-Alan Watts
"What is the most interesting thing to you? Man is Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
-The Dalai Lama
"In the last few decades, it has become increasingly clear that humanity is facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions. Modern science has developed effective measures that could solve most of the urgent problems in today's world--combat the majority of diseases, eliminate hunger and poverty, reduce the amount of industrial waste, and replace destructive fossil fuels by renewable sources of clean energy. The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species."
-Stanislav Grof
"In the twilight of human history, Terence McKenna's prescription for salvation is just so crazy it might work."
-Alex Grey
"It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -J Krishnamurti
"Life is just a dance of energy."
-Ram Dass
"It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.”
-Terence McKenna
"Quiet minds and open hearts are the optimum conditions for social change."
-Ram Dass
"I always thought death would come on the freeway in a few horrifying moments, so you'd have no time to sort it out. Having months and months to look at it and think about it and talk to people and hear what they have to say, it's a kind of blessing. It's certainly an opportunity to grow up and get a grip and sort it all out. Just being told by an unsmiling guy in a white coat that you're going to be dead in four months definitely turns on the lights. ... It makes life rich and poignant. When it first happened, and I got these diagnoses, I could see the light of eternity, a la William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears."
-Terence McKenna
"Abandon belief systems for direct experience. The psychedelic experience is the only reliable contact with the numinous. Psychedelics dissolve belief systems."
-Terence McKenna
"Can you entertain the idea that all of your life has happened without a single mistake? Can you conceive of that possibility for a moment?"
-Ram Dass
"God demands nothing less than complete self-surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having."
-Ghandi
"The intellect was the ultimate arbiter of truth in society. The guru mirrors where you aren't. It doesn't catch you anywhere. You catch yourself. The intellect is the powertool of our seperateness. Love is a more powerful medicine than LSD. If you have a sense of humor, how depressed can you be?"
-Ram Dass
"Neurosis is the absence of legitimate suffering."
-Carl Jung
"Acid is not for every brain. Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain from LSD."
-Timothy Leary
"An idea is something you have. An ideology is something that has you."
-Morris Berman
"Ideology is toxic. All ideology. Ideology is an insult to the gift of human free thinking."
-Terence McKenna
"The thing that people find offensive about drug abuse is self destructive, repetitive, unconscious behavior. Psychedelics do not promote self destructive, repetitive, unconscious behavior. Quite the opposite; psychedelics break up patterns of behavior, promote self reflection and self evaluation. When you consider LSD you must consider it in the following analogy: on the molecular level, the power of LSD is equivalent to a fire ant that can completely tear down the Empire State Building in under 30 minutes."
-The Great Terence McKenna
"That's the troublesome position of psychedelic explorer, whether the contents which are experienced with utmost certainty are real in an internal or an external sense, in a concrete or a symbolic sense, and furthermore, whether the reality we return to and live within holds up to the same criteria, because suddenly after the ingestion of a single chemical compound, things are revealed to be much less certain."
-Terence McKenna
"A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters. Psychedelic states are an array of experiences including changes of perception such as hallucinations, synesthesia, altered states of awareness or focused consciousness, variation in thought patterns, trance or hypnotic states, mystical states, and other mind alterations. These processes can lead some people to experience changes in mental operation defining their self identity (whether in momentary acuity or chronic development) different enough from their previous normal state that it can excite feelings of newly formed understanding ranging from revelation & enlightenment to the opposing polarity of confusion & psychosis."
-Wikipedia entry
"Those who stand towards the sun, shadows fall behind them."
-Walt Whitman
"If that is how you want to approach it, God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
-Neil Degrasse Tyson
"Its hard to meditate because we have monkey minds."
-Shaum Pithugai
"Don't try to improve your intelligence or expand your knowledge. Just enhance your perception. See things exactly as they are."
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
"The incredible thing about Maharaj-Ji was not that he loved everyone, it was that when I was in his presence I loved everyone too."
-Larry Brilliant
"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerful causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than the present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination of names, numbers, symbols, signs, concepts and ideas."
-Alan Watts
"Some of the last obstacles to the inner temple are righteousness and being right, being good. One of the problems with spiritual work is being "good" and "righteous" but not free. Freedom lies behind right and wrong, behind good and evil. Its the one that lies behind the two."
-Ram Dass
"There are those who look up at night and there are those who do not yet know why they should."
-Neil Degrasse Tyson
"When you do that much mushrooms reality must become like a slippery fish in your hands."
-Joe Rogan
"Cast into doubt all of your cherished illusions"
-Terence McKenna
"You become a different person when you bring into question your tacit assumptions and unarticulated presuppositions."
-Cornel West
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
-Albert Einstein
"You can't have a war on drugs. that is having a war on something that isnt fighting back, its like having a war on sand or like having a war on rocks, rocks and the sand are not fighting back, you cant eliminate drugs from the planet because drugs are made of simple chemicals that are abundant on the planet."
"If someone hurts you, so be it. Let it go immediately. If you hold on to the fact that they hurt you, every time you think about it, you are allowing them to hurt you again and again. But if you can let go of it then they truly only hurt you once."
-Buddhist Monk
"Most people want happiness but run toward suffering."
-Buddhist Monk
"Creation comes out of emptiness and there is nothing missing from it"
-Stanislav Grof
"If we could just stop giving ourselves such a hard time, what a vacation this life would be."
-Krishna Das
"I know what’s coming. I know no one beats these odds and I know it’s a matter of getting used to that and realizing that you are expelled from your mother’s uterus as if shot from a cannon towards a barn door studded with old nail files and rusty hooks. It’s a matter of how you use up the intervening time in an intelligent and ironic way; and try not to do anything ghastly to your fellow creatures."
-Christopher Hitchens
"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."
-William James
"Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness humorously."
-Principia Discordia
"Even the biggest man. Him was once a baby."
-Bob Marley
"Anxiety comes when we fundamentally distrust ourselves."
-Alan Watts
"Better to live short life doing things you love than a long life doing things you hate."
-Alan Watts
"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit---to the "conquest" of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."
-Alan Watts
"The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever."
-Alan Watts
"What is the most interesting thing to you? Man is Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
-The Dalai Lama
"In the last few decades, it has become increasingly clear that humanity is facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions. Modern science has developed effective measures that could solve most of the urgent problems in today's world--combat the majority of diseases, eliminate hunger and poverty, reduce the amount of industrial waste, and replace destructive fossil fuels by renewable sources of clean energy. The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species."
-Stanislav Grof
"In the twilight of human history, Terence McKenna's prescription for salvation is just so crazy it might work."
-Alex Grey
"It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -J Krishnamurti
"Life is just a dance of energy."
-Ram Dass
"It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.”
-Terence McKenna
"Quiet minds and open hearts are the optimum conditions for social change."
-Ram Dass
"I always thought death would come on the freeway in a few horrifying moments, so you'd have no time to sort it out. Having months and months to look at it and think about it and talk to people and hear what they have to say, it's a kind of blessing. It's certainly an opportunity to grow up and get a grip and sort it all out. Just being told by an unsmiling guy in a white coat that you're going to be dead in four months definitely turns on the lights. ... It makes life rich and poignant. When it first happened, and I got these diagnoses, I could see the light of eternity, a la William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears."
-Terence McKenna
"Abandon belief systems for direct experience. The psychedelic experience is the only reliable contact with the numinous. Psychedelics dissolve belief systems."
-Terence McKenna
"Can you entertain the idea that all of your life has happened without a single mistake? Can you conceive of that possibility for a moment?"
-Ram Dass
"God demands nothing less than complete self-surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having."
-Ghandi
"The intellect was the ultimate arbiter of truth in society. The guru mirrors where you aren't. It doesn't catch you anywhere. You catch yourself. The intellect is the powertool of our seperateness. Love is a more powerful medicine than LSD. If you have a sense of humor, how depressed can you be?"
-Ram Dass
"Neurosis is the absence of legitimate suffering."
-Carl Jung
"Acid is not for every brain. Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain from LSD."
-Timothy Leary
"An idea is something you have. An ideology is something that has you."
-Morris Berman
"Ideology is toxic. All ideology. Ideology is an insult to the gift of human free thinking."
-Terence McKenna
"The thing that people find offensive about drug abuse is self destructive, repetitive, unconscious behavior. Psychedelics do not promote self destructive, repetitive, unconscious behavior. Quite the opposite; psychedelics break up patterns of behavior, promote self reflection and self evaluation. When you consider LSD you must consider it in the following analogy: on the molecular level, the power of LSD is equivalent to a fire ant that can completely tear down the Empire State Building in under 30 minutes."
-The Great Terence McKenna
"That's the troublesome position of psychedelic explorer, whether the contents which are experienced with utmost certainty are real in an internal or an external sense, in a concrete or a symbolic sense, and furthermore, whether the reality we return to and live within holds up to the same criteria, because suddenly after the ingestion of a single chemical compound, things are revealed to be much less certain."
-Terence McKenna
"A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters. Psychedelic states are an array of experiences including changes of perception such as hallucinations, synesthesia, altered states of awareness or focused consciousness, variation in thought patterns, trance or hypnotic states, mystical states, and other mind alterations. These processes can lead some people to experience changes in mental operation defining their self identity (whether in momentary acuity or chronic development) different enough from their previous normal state that it can excite feelings of newly formed understanding ranging from revelation & enlightenment to the opposing polarity of confusion & psychosis."
-Wikipedia entry
"Those who stand towards the sun, shadows fall behind them."
-Walt Whitman
"If that is how you want to approach it, God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
-Neil Degrasse Tyson
"Its hard to meditate because we have monkey minds."
-Shaum Pithugai
"Don't try to improve your intelligence or expand your knowledge. Just enhance your perception. See things exactly as they are."
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
"The incredible thing about Maharaj-Ji was not that he loved everyone, it was that when I was in his presence I loved everyone too."
-Larry Brilliant
"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerful causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than the present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination of names, numbers, symbols, signs, concepts and ideas."
-Alan Watts
"Some of the last obstacles to the inner temple are righteousness and being right, being good. One of the problems with spiritual work is being "good" and "righteous" but not free. Freedom lies behind right and wrong, behind good and evil. Its the one that lies behind the two."
-Ram Dass
"There are those who look up at night and there are those who do not yet know why they should."
-Neil Degrasse Tyson
"When you do that much mushrooms reality must become like a slippery fish in your hands."
-Joe Rogan
"Cast into doubt all of your cherished illusions"
-Terence McKenna
"You become a different person when you bring into question your tacit assumptions and unarticulated presuppositions."
-Cornel West
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
-Albert Einstein
"You can't have a war on drugs. that is having a war on something that isnt fighting back, its like having a war on sand or like having a war on rocks, rocks and the sand are not fighting back, you cant eliminate drugs from the planet because drugs are made of simple chemicals that are abundant on the planet."
-Simon G Powell
"The mind has so many good qualities and so many bad qualities. Our basic nature is to be joyous, happy, compassionate, harmonious, open, loving, warm and friendly. Anytime the mind is saturated with negative emotions it is not in its natural state."
-Buddhist Monk
"Life is like the way tea tastes. Continuously the taste of tea is leaving your mouth. A new moment, then a new moment, then a new moment."
"The mind has so many good qualities and so many bad qualities. Our basic nature is to be joyous, happy, compassionate, harmonious, open, loving, warm and friendly. Anytime the mind is saturated with negative emotions it is not in its natural state."
-Buddhist Monk
"Life is like the way tea tastes. Continuously the taste of tea is leaving your mouth. A new moment, then a new moment, then a new moment."
-Buddhist Monk
"Do the opposite of deconstruction of reality with your thoughts."
-Terence McKenna
"Remember that every person you meet either is a baby or used to be a baby. dont take anybody seriously. they used to shit uncontrollably."
-Chess White
"Remember that every person you meet either is a baby or used to be a baby. dont take anybody seriously. they used to shit uncontrollably."
-Chess White
