People

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."

"Trauma is not what happens to you, but what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you."

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination."

"Intuition feels just the same when it's wrong and when it's right, that's the problem with intuition."

"The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life."

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

"Mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain."

"Our very lives as ex-problem drinkers depend upon our constant thought of others and how we may help meet their needs."

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

"Our brain is a complex biological organ that is constantly changing in response to experience."

"Human emotions are complex adaptations that solve adaptive problems related to survival and reproduction."

"Our perception of reality is not a direct reflection of the world; it is filtered through our biases and expectations."

"Psychedelic therapy is more psychotherapy than most pharma companies & neuroscientists know how to deal with."

"The mind is not a blank slate, but an intricate tapestry of biological and cultural influences."

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is."

"Anxiety and depressive affect are not a sign of personal weakness, but a manifestation of the human condition."

"The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love, and play."

"The past is present until it is resolved."

"Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done."

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

"The mind is a collection of specialized modules, each designed to solve specific adaptive problems."

"Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is for biology."

"Morality is not a subject; it's a perspective from which every subject can be taught."

"Play is the highest form of development in childhood. It alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul."

"Our brains have been sculpted by evolution to solve the adaptive problems of our ancestors."

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

"If you want to understand your own life, you have to understand your mother's life."

"Family members who have the least amount of reactivity to others in the family are the most emotionally mature."

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”

"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity."

"One of the most important things you can do to change your brain is to change your mind."

"Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death."

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few."

"The most inspiring achievements of civilization are the ones that expanded the scope of human sympathy."

"Perception is not the passive receipt of sensory information, but an active process of interpreting it."

"Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life."

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

"The universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose."

"If you love someone, the best way to show it is to respect their freedom."