Psychedelic Preparation Quotes

“ou don’t want to pour all this effort into preparation only to make a wrong turn on the day of your psychedelic experience.”
― G. Scott Graham, Psychedelic Preparation Workbook: Sixty Days to Engagement

“By setting your intention, you create a focused and purposeful mindset to guide your journey.”
― G. Scott Graham, Psychedelic Preparation Workbook: Sixty Days to Engagement

“You don’t need a plan.
You need presence.
You need stillness without retreat.
Soft attention.
Open breath.
The journey is still happening.
In your fingertips.
In your silence.
In the choices you don’t yet recognize as choices.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics

“The ceremony didn’t end.
It changed shape.
The body is still listening.
The breath is still altered.
The mind is still rearranging
what it thought it knew.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics

“The sage does not walk toward a goal.
They walk through a question.
A destination invites expectation.
But a door invites presence.
The medicine does not care
what outcome you hoped for.
It responds to how honestly
you name your entry point.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics

“What’s left after the wave
is not yours to own—
but you can sit beside it.
The sage holds what arises
as one might hold water:
open hands,
no fists.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics

“The edge is not the end.
It’s an invitation.
The sage feels the tremble
and does not retreat.
Discomfort is not danger.
It’s data.
It’s where your old limits meet
what might grow next.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics

“The sage does not separate the sacred
from the ordinary.
They rinse the bowl
as if it mattered.
They fold the towel
as if it were prayer.
The ceremony isn’t over
because the altar is gone.
It continues
in how you touch the day.
Wash the dishes slowly.
Feel the heat in the water.
Notice the sound of soap against porcelain.
This is presence.
This is integration.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics

“Who’s behind those eyes?
Who’s watching from within?
You are not the features.
Not the aging.
Not the effort.
Not the mask you sometimes wear
to be loved or understood.
You are the one who sees.
The one who stays.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics

“The breath is not a tool.
It is a threshold.
In…
a return.
Out…
a release.
Each breath holds a world:
The body remembering now.
The moment asking for nothing.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics

“Stillness is not empty.
It is full of everything you’ve been avoiding.
The sage does not fear the echo.
They sit inside it
until it becomes a song.
When the world stops talking,
your mind gets loud.
The list, the memory, the ache, the fear—
all rise like smoke
in a windless room.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics

“Expectations are important to consider, having positive expectations, although at times you should let go of your expectations as your psychedelic experience will most likely include both bliss and temporary affliction. Remind yourself that this is all happening within yourself, and that it will pass in time.”
― Psil Silva, The Psychedelic Trip Journal

“Your breath, the only thing you need for ānāpāna, is always with you.”
― G. Scott Graham, Psychedelic Preparation Workbook: Sixty Days to Engagement

“There’s no failure with intentions.”
― G. Scott Graham, Psychedelic Preparation Workbook: Sixty Days to Engagement

“Don’t make a mental mistake during your therapeutic psychedelic experience. Develop your equanimity / psychological flexibility and use a Race Day Strategy.”
― G. Scott Graham, Psychedelic Preparation Workbook: Sixty Days to Engagement

“You don’t want to pour all this effort into preparation only to make a wrong turn on the day of your psychedelic experience.”
― G. Scott Graham, Psychedelic Preparation Workbook: Sixty Days to Engagement

“The sage does not return unchanged.
They integrate.
You are not the same.
Not because the medicine worked.
But because you did.
You sat with your shadow.
You stayed through the storm.
You chose the harder honesty.
This wasn’t an escape.
It was a re-entry.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics

“The sage does not confuse the seed
with the tree.
You are not one version of yourself.
You are many.
The one who doubted.
The one who tried.
The one who left.
The one who stayed.
The one who kept showing up,
even when no one noticed.”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics

“You scroll.
You feel.
You judge.
You click.
But do you pause?
Do you see what you’re chasing?
Do you notice what’s pulling you?”
― G. Scott Graham, The Tao of Psychedelics