Two roads diverged in a wood, and I; Took the one less travelled by; And that has made all the difference - from Robert Frost, A Road in the Woods
The planet yearns to communicate, and all nature is in fact language. We are somewhat anesthetised to this by our very introspective cultural style. Our whole focus of attention is inward, and so the natural world has fallen silent for most of us. Jean Paul Sartre said: ?Nature is mute.? That, sadly, captures perfectly modernity?s relationship to nature, but still -- if that isn?t the lamest statement made by a twentieth-century philosopher, I don?t know what is - Terence McKenna,
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed - Albert Einstein, (U.S. (German-born) physicist, 1879-1955)
The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12-foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless - Alan Moore
The fundamental idea of Buddhism is to pass beyond the world of opposites, a world built up by intellectual distinctions and emotional defilements - D.T. Suzuki
Lighting candles is an act of trust. In kindling each wick, we bring light from our own inner depths out into the open. This simple personal gesture
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean - Socrates
I believe that psychedelics provide a chance, perhaps only a slender one to merge into that other creature whose presence we have so rashly presumed, homo sapiens, the wise, the understanding, the compassionate, in whose fourfold vision art, politics, science and religion are one - Humphrey Osmond
Eyes that have seen the dawn of time - Ancient Dream, Aeolian Songspell
All the cultures in human history except the Western industrial civilization have held holotropic states of consciousness in great esteem. They induced them whenever they wanted to connect to their deities,other dimensions of reality,and with the forces of nature. They also used them for diagnosing and healing, cultivation of extrasensory perception, and artistic inspiration. They spent much time and energy to develop safe and effective ways of inducing them - Stanislav Grof.