If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

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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.

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Worrying is betting against yourself.

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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.

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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

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