Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature. If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it? Who would take responsibility for the world?

I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.

I don't really advocate for psychedelics. I don't really think anybody needs to do them, or has to do them. For me, they were the only way I could have cracked open my own spirit in a way.

I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.