A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head. — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented and enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water. — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those who refuse… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results. — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia,… — hakim bey Copy Share Image
Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images. — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
