What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.

The universe is an intelligence test.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences.

Anything is possible after midnight.