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In that moment, of all my waking moments, I am very aware of being at the service of something; there is a machine in me, or I am a ghost in it.
“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”
― The Doors of Perception
― The Doors of Perception
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.”
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“When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.”
― Aloha from Hell
― Aloha from Hell
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