“When you’re favoured by God, you’re also favoured by the Devil.
He’s coming for you too.
So you just gotta be strong to stay on the right side.
Whose side you gonna go on?
He’s gonna give you power too.
He’s going to get in your head too, but whose side you gonna stay with?
You stay with who brought you
here. You go home with the guy who brought you to the dance.” – Mike Tyson
“Basically, when we’re born, we’re soft clay, and a heavy handed sculptor starts putting dents in it, and that”s in our mold. That’s what we are. You just can’t correct those distortions. And that’s what develops personality. Not a lot of people can overcome it. It takes work.” – Sylvester Stallone
“I’m not saying that only intellectuals can benefit from [drugs which dissolve some of the barriers between ordinary pedestrian consciousness and the multidimensional super consciousness of the organism], but that there must be sufficient discipline or insight to relate this expanded consciousness to our normal, everyday life.
Such aids to perception are medicines, not diets, and the use of a medicine should lead to a more healthful mode of living […], measures we might take to maintain a sounder form of sanity. Of these, most important is the practice of what I would like to call meditation [or] ‘contemplation’ or even ‘centering,’ for what I mean is a slowing down of time, of mental hurry, and an allowing of one’s attention to rest in the present – so coming to the unseeking observation, not of what should be, but of what is.” – Alan Watts
“The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is […] a principal appetite of the soul.” – Aldous Huxley
“The supreme aim of the opus psychologicum is conscious realization, and the first step is to make oneself conscious of contents that have hitherto been projected. The endeavour gradually leads to knowledge of one’s partner and to self-knowledge, and so to the distinction between what one really is and what is projected into one, or what one imagines one to be.” – C. G. Jung
”Our lack of direction borders on psychic anarchy. Therefore any religious or philosophical practice amounts to a psychological discipline, and therefore a method of psychic hygiene.” – C. G. Jung
“Give us the teachings of his majesty, we don’t want no devil philosophy.” – Bob Marley
“Basically, I think it almost comes down to practicing a noisy form of aesthetic criticism of the society. If something is stupid, you should say so…” – Terence McKenna
“It’s important as an individual not to identify with the characteristics of a group. And it’s very tricky because you’re constantly binned into thinking of yourself as black, gay, white, poor, but those are not really qualities of individuals. Individuals are more complex than that. You may have a gay component, you may have a black portion of your genetic heritage but it doesn’t define yourself as a group. That’s a trick that was launched by print in the act of creating this peculiar entity called the public. The public is a fiction of the print created galaxy. You are not a citizen and you are not part of the public unless you seriously do damage to your humaness in order to fit yourself into such a narrow definition.” – Terence McKenna
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