Herman H. Douma

“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.”
― Yehuda Berg

“Millions of people have taken mushrooms for thousands of years, with very few reports of negative consequences. But the government wanted to score points by being seen as “tough on drugs” as the opposition Tory party said they would be.”
― David J. Nutt, Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert

“Religion [...] may be seen as literature that has succeeded beyond any writer's wildest dreams.”
― Jack Miles, God: A Biography

“And, crucially, we need good myths that help us to venerate the earth as sacred once again, because unless there is a spiritual revolution that challenges the destructiveness of our technological genius, we will not save our planet.”
― Karen Armstrong, Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World