Quotes
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Quotes
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
— Terence McKenna
"Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change." -Rob Brezsny
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”
–Robert M. Pirsig
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible. -Thich Nhat Hanh
"For a few weeks, I started each morning by writing “What do I actually want?” at the top of a blank page.
It’s surprising how useful it is to keep asking the same question. Each time, my answer became more precise.
Once I knew what I wanted, I turned it into action steps."
James Clear
“I realized that I could lose myself in a character. I could live in a character. It was a choice. And when I finished with that, I took a month to remember who I was. ‘What do I believe? What are my politics? What do I like and dislike?’ It took me a while, and I was depressed going back into my concerns and my politics. But there was a shift that
... See moreThe definition of hell is: Your last day on Earth, the person you became meets the person you could have become.” - Dan Sullivan
"Clarity is the elimination of mental clutter. Agility is the elimination of physical clutter. Tranquility is the elimination of spiritual clutter."
James Clear