Quotes on Lecturer

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.

If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

The field of quantum possibility, in which love has opened doors otherwise unimaginable, is our soul's true habitat. The world of fear and limitation is not our home, and who among us is not profoundly weary of hanging out where we do not belong.

Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The universe is an infinite opportunity creation machine. In every instant, the possibility of greater possibility is programmed into the nature of things. Love creates the conduit through which new possibility enters our experience, and lovelessness keeps it at bay.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.