Man Is Hypnotized By The Glitter Of

Addiction Is An Increasing Desire For An Act That Gives Less And Less Satisfaction

Art And Religion, Carnivals And Saturnalia, Dancing And Listening To Oratory - All These Have Served, In H. G. Wells's Phrase, As Doors In The Wall.

Great Is Truth, But Still Greater, From A Practical Point Of View, Is Silence About Truth.

The Really Important Facts Were That Spatial Relationships Had Ceased To Matter Very Much And That My Mind Was Perceiving The World In Terms Of Other Than Spatial Categories. At Ordinary Times The Eye Concerns Itself With Such Problems As Where? — How Far? — How Situated In Relation To What? In The Mescaline Experience The Implied Questions To Which The Eye Responds Are Of Another Order. Place And Distance Cease To Be Of Much Interest. The Mind Does Its Perceiving In Terms Of Intensity Of Existence, Profundity Of Significance, Relationships Within A Pattern.

It Is Natural To Believe In God When You're Alone-- Quite Alone, In The Night, Thinking About Death.