By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.