the whole universe consists of a cosmic Self playing hide-and-seek (Lila); hiding from itself (Maya) by becoming all the living and non-living things in the universe and forgetting what it really is — the upshot being that we are all IT in disguise.
If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.
I always thought “be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle” was saccharine BS until I had 3 children.
It’s never about me. [My supporters] use me as a mark for themselves to recognise their own form of life: I become their medium.
Love without action is meaningless, and action without love is irrelevant.
My voice is not for me. Every time I speak, I think how many people had a voice that no one could hear.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
