Metanoia

You cannot meaningfully confront the universe’s indifference to us without seeing the horrific suffering and injustice and awfulness of what really happens to real people who do not deserve to suffer and die. So honestly, I wasn’t trying to make you feel anything gratuitous; I just could think of no other way to lay bare the absolute hideousness of living in a world where parents have to bury their children. And we live in that world. Humans have always lived in that world, and always will. I believe there is great beauty and meaning to be found and constructed in this life, but we must find and construct that meaning in this world, and to do that, we must be honest about this world.”

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.

When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. - To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.

Part of what psychedelics do is they condition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of coin game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game.