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“What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.”

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History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you…

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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

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What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense…

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What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

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And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

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Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types…

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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

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This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.…

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I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature…

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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

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It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

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He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.

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Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t…

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I'm Fine!, the most common LIE in the world...

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The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,…

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

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