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„Here I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology [at Stanford and Harvard], and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves were not highly evolved beings. Their own lives were not fulfilled.“
„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.“
„I thought inside “I must really be crazy, now — because craziness is where everybody agrees about something — except you!” And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.“
„We had a Negro psychiatrist, Madison Presnell, working with us, and I had been trained to be a very liberal person about Negroes, which meant that you didn’t have feelings. It was a phony kind of liberal thing. I went out of my way to be liberal. You know, that very self-conscious kind of equality. And Madison and I turned on together and I looked at Madison, and there we were, the same human beings. It was just that he was wearing that skin and I was wearing this skin. And it was no more or less than that. It was that shirt and this shirt and it had no more relevance than that. And I looked at that, and suddenly there we were, whereas before I had been so busy with my super-liberal reaction to color of skin, that I couldn’t relax enough to share this unitive place.“
„I had gone through game, after game, after game, first being a professor at Harvard, then being a psychedelic spokesman, and still people were constantly looking into my eyes, like “Do you know?” Just that subtle little look, and I was constantly looking into their eyes “Do you know?”“
„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.“
„It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you’d look at another human being and say, “Here we are.” You’d see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.“
„I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people… To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.“
„I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.“
„He [Bhagwan Dass] wasn’t the least bit interested in all of the extraordinary dramas that I had collected … He was the first person I couldn’t seduce into being interested in all this. He just didn’t care.And yet, I never felt so profound an intimacy with another being. It was as if he were inside of my heart. And what started to blow my mind was that everywhere we went, he was at home.“
„We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.“
„When we’re identified with Awareness, we’re no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.“
„When the heart is open, it’s easier for the mind to be turned toward God.“
„If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul.It takes one to know one!“
„Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.“
„Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.“
„What we’re seeing “out there” is the projection of where we’re at–the projection of the clingings of our minds.“
„As one individual changes, the system changes.“
„Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.“
„Inspiration is God making contact with itself.“
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