To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

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.

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.