Mind Expansion Quotes

The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

There is more inside you than you dare think.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

All great music is in one way or another psychedelic.

When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

By the time I got to college, mind expansion had lost its appeal.