“You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.”

Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

A trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart’s response to that mystery is faith.

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate.

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart.

The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind.

Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass.

The locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.

Class was like watered down porn today. Vee said

Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

You take what you’ve learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.

It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.

Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

We touched base at several strategic locations down our bodies, and it took all my willpower to break away.