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
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
