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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.
All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.
Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.
Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.
You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.
In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.
Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.
Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.
The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.
Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.