If God dropped acid, would he see people? —Steven Wright More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't believe drugs have done good things, then burn all your records, tapes, and cds, because every one of those artists who have made brilliant music and enhanced your lives? Rrrreal fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so high they let Ringo sing a few songs. —Bill Hicks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nonordinary experiences are vital to us because they are expressions of our unconscious minds, and the integration of conscious and unconscious experience is the key to life, health, spiritual development, and fullest use of our nervous systems. By instilling fear and guilt about altered states of consciousness into our children, we force this drive underground, guaranteeing that it will be expressed in antisocial ways. —Andrew Weil More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The government could take away all the drugs in the world, and people would spin around on their lawn until they fell down and saw God. —Dennis Miller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Turn on" meant . . . become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them; drugs were one way to accomplish this end. "Tune in" meant interact harmoniously with the world around you, . . . express your new internal perspectives. "Drop out" suggested an active, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. . . . Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean, "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity. —Timothy Leary More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction. —Carrie Fisher More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it. —Ken Kesey More about this quote Tags: power men drugs new Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. —Katherine Mansfield More about this quote Tags: love mind wildness grass prarie Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After all, what is reality anyway? It's nothing but a collective hunch. —Jane Wagner More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all live in two realities: one of seeming fixity, with institutions, dogmas, rules of punctuation, and routines, the calendared and clockwise world of all-but-futile round and round; and one of whirling and flying electrons, dreams, and possibilities, behind the clock. —Sidney Cox More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What we know of the world comes to us primarily through vision. Our eyes, however, are sensitive only to that segment of the spectrum located between red and violet; the remaining 95 percent of all existing light (cosmic, infrared, ultraviolet, gammas, and x-rays) we cannot see. This means that we only perceive 5 percent of the "real" world. —Amos Vogel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Trust, but verify. —Ronald Reagan More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. —Gautama Buddha More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. —Balthus More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email