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"If you want to touch the edges of your soul with your eyes, read this book" — May 17, 2026 04:14PM
"If you want to touch the edges of your soul with your eyes, read this book" — May 17, 2026 04:14PM
“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. 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.”
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“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.”
― Goldengrove
― Goldengrove
“All that we can do with any spiritual discipline is produce within ourselves something of the silence, the humility, the detachment, the purity of heart and the indifference which are required if the inner self is to make some shy, unpredictable manifestation of his presence.11”
― Merton's Palace of Nowhere
― Merton's Palace of Nowhere
“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
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