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

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Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. — Nelson Mandela

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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

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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 mind is everything. What you think you become. — Buddha

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When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. — Paulo Coelho

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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

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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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There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong. -Terence McKenna

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The only real experience that counts, is your own.

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