Albert Hofmann Quotes

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• I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and…
• I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation,…
• I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by…
• The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible…
• Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!
• It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.
• After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to…
• When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
• LSD wanted to tell me something.... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the…
• Wrong and inappropriate use has caused LSD to become my problem child,
• I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, that’s all.
• I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.
• In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with…
• Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the…
• It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place…
• LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.
• Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.
• I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us…
• I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a…
• By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock…

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