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I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage—courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful _x000D_ and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too. On the _x000D_ other hand, hatred, jealousy and fear upset our peace of mind, make _x000D_ us agitated and affect our body adversely. Even our body needs peace _x000D_ of mind and is not suited to agitation. This shows that an _x000D_ appreciation for peace of mind is in our blood.

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

Sometimes an ember is all we need.

Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.

You can't be judgmental about babies. They are all have different needs. I was left with an enduring hatred of cheese because it was forced down me when I was young.

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.

Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.