Timothy Leary quotes - page 2

Anything that affects your senses ... is your business. If you want to kill yourself through nicotine or cyanide, it's your business. (Timothy Leary)
Turn on" meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. "Tune in" meant interact harmoniously with the world around you - externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. "Drop Out" meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity. View quote
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The only abuse of drugs is the control of drugs by other people.... The only control is self-control. View quote
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That intermediate manifestation of the divine process which we call the DNA code has spent the last 2 billion years making this planet a Garden of Eden. An intricate web has been woven, a delicate fabric of chemical-electrical-seed-tissue=organism=species. A dancing, joyous harmony of energy transactions is rooted in the 12 inches of topsoil which covers the rock metal fire core of this planet. View quote
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. View quote
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LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it. View quote
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And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual's function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you're in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit. View quote
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We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations. View quote
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What I feel or believe or experience is my business, and what I do is all our businesses; and reward or punish me according to whether I play the game well - ethically and rightly - or unethically. View quote
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Art's certainly made a lot of money, and got on a lot of shows - he got himself into the Nixon White House riding on the death of his daughter. And I think that's ghoulish! That's ghoulish. View quote
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We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art. (Timothy Leary)
Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac. View quote
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My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out. View quote
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The most important thing you do in your life is to die. View quote
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To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist. View quote
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When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly. View quote
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Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key - it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures. View quote
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Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in." View quote
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Science is all a metaphor. View quote
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The PC is the LSD of the '90s. View quote
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John asked what he could do to help my campaign for governor. "Write a campaign song," I replied. "Okay," said John, "what's the theme?" "Our campaign slogan is 'Come together, join the party.'" "Great title," said John. He grabbed his guitar and started improvising. : Come together right now. Don't come tomorrow, don't come alone, Come together right now, Over me. :* On first proposing that John Lennon write a song for his California gubernatorial campaign; this eventually developed into the Beatles song, "Come Together", p. 281. (Timothy Leary)
Don't take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. Don't take it unless you have someone that's very experienced with you to guide you through it. And don't take it unless you are ready to have your perspective on yourself and your life radically changed. View quote
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But they all do sort of the same thing, and that is rearrange what you thought was real, and they remind you of the beauty of pretty simple things. You forget, because you're so busy going from A to Z, that there's 24 letters in between... You turn on... tune in... and you drop out... View quote
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Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission." View quote
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The mark of a basic shit is that he can't mind his own business. View quote
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