Albert Hofmann Quotes

We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and blandishments of the outside world.

Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open to the world.

Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.

It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the world is the one that's going to be published."

Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of your inner self. If you change, the world changes.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.

Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your "liberators" are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.