“Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.”

The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That’s really what new alchemy’s all about.

I want to explain the new alchemy [in the “From Earth, Air, Fire, and Water to a New Vision of Mind and Time”], which has to do with understanding what I call the subjective and objective qualities of existence.

Certainly in terms of technology, it’s made a tremendous impact, but medicine is still within the realm of what we might call “objective” science. It’s still part of the objective way of looking at the world.

I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.

That’s sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.

What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: “as above, so below, as within, so without.”

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

Dreams – Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it’s often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

When I speak or when I offer ideas and explain how the universe seems to work from the point of view that I’ve understood, it seems to give people a lift – an unshackling or freeing.

In very subtle ways, how we regard ourselves and others continually changes us into something new.

Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.

I’m not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i’m talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.

You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream – and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the subject thinks too much about it.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

It is your soul’s journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory – the evolution of your own individual consciousness.

People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive – but that was totally subconscious.

Are you fully conscious of your worth? Are you a person or a universe?