So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.

Never have so many been so high so often. When a Boston research group decided to compare the effects of marijuana on experienced and inexperienced users, it took them two months to line up nine student subjects who had never used marijuana.

Love is a context, not a behavior.