Charles Hayes > Quotes

“as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We”
― Charles Hayes

“A popular management term used to describe efficiency is called "working smart." We are told that if we work smart instead of hard, we will be more productive. But if we do work "smart" then we are likely to have idle time, and if we are idle we will likely be thought of as being lazy or worthless.”
― Charles Hayes

“The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.”
― Charles Hayes

“Self-knowledge liberates us from the frustration of ignorance, while simultaneously nurturing and supporting our capacity for intelligence. Objectivity”
― Charles Hayes

“Remember those deer, I told myself. They were doing fine with or without the progress down below. They were doing fine before it even existed, and they’ll continue to do fine, all things being equal and if the environment is left alone. These guys are doing fine eating their blueberries; lots of blueberries to eat up on the mountain here.”
― Charles Hayes, Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures

“A few years ago Stan was studying the Mayan codices in the British Museum Library when he spotted a glyph that a Christian scholar had identified as a “night light” (i.e., the artificial light of candles or paraffin), but which he believed was actually a cross section of the yage vine, a component of ayahuasca. Finding it curious that there were carvings of kings from separate generations sitting together eating, he translated a codex that gave what he interpreted as a recipe for time travel, using the yage.”
― Charles Hayes, Tripping: An Anthology of True-Life Psychedelic Adventures