Worrying is betting against yourself.

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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.

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

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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

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

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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

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