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

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

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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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This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.

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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 real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

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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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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.

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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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