19 quotes
It takes a while to realize that God can empty garbage.
Be Here Now (1971)
"Hey, Sam, empty the garbage!" it catches you back into the model of "I'm Sam who empties the garbage."
Be Here Now (1971)
A place where "I" existed independent of social and physical identity.
Be Here Now (1971)
It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious.
Be Here Now (1971)
I understood the requirement of being "objective" for a scientist, but this is a most naive concept in social sciences as we are finding out.
Be Here Now (1971)
I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.
Be Here Now (1971)
But two or three days later I was talking about the whole thing in the past tense.
Be Here Now (1971)
I realized that although everything by which I knew myself, even my body and this life itself, was gone, still I was fully aware!
Be Here Now (1971)
Whenever anybody that I trusted brought along some new chemical, I would open my mouth and off I'd go.
Be Here Now (1971)
Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
Be Here Now (1971)
We had gotten over the feeling that one experience was going to make you enlightened forever.
Be Here Now (1971)
As far as I'm concerned we are all God
That's the difference
If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.
Be Here Now (1971)
The nature of life was a mystery to me. All the stuff I was teaching was just like little molecular bits of stuff but they didn't add up to a feeling anything like wisdom.
Be Here Now (1971)
There are three stages in this journey that I have been on. The first. the social science stage; the second, the psychedelic stage; and the third, the yogi stage.
Be Here Now (1971)
It was all my identities, all rolling in over me.
Be Here Now (1971)
His [Bhagwan Dass'] teaching seemed to be no teaching because he always taught from within … that is, his lessons aroused in me just affirmation … as if I knew it all already.
Be Here Now (1971)
I had plenty of LSD, but why take it. I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me. It was going to show me that garden again and then I was going to be cast out and that was it.
Be Here Now (1971)
We were exploring this inner realm of consciousness that we had been theorizing about all these years and suddenly we were traveling in and through and around it.
Be Here Now (1971)
I have a relative who is in a mental hospital. He thinks he is Christ. Well, that's groovy. I am Christ also. But he doesn't think I am Christ. He thinks he is Christ. Because it happened to him and he took his ego with him.
Be Here Now (1971)