Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.
Timothy LearyHippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.
Timothy LearyAnd a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individualโs function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when youโre in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.
Timothy LearyThe first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Timothy Leary