We live in condensations of our imagination.
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream, and the world will not grind you under; it will lift you up.
Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it’s very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.
Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.
To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.
You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.
Half the time you think you’re thinking, you’re actually listening.
Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.
I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.
A lot of people pass through the thinking I’m a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.
Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don’t produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.