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Stephen Gaskin Biography

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Stephen Gaskin was an American author, born on February 16, 1935, and passed away on July 1, 2014. His works primarily focused on social movements, religion, and spiritual life.

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“You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.”

People Thinking Self Educational Being True Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Best Self

Author:Stephen Gaskin

“Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.”

Love Sound Love Is Music Love You Expression Music Is Harmony Love Life Life And Love Being In Love Loving Someone When You Love Someone Meaning Of Love Sound Of Music When A Man Loves A Woman

Author:Stephen Gaskin

“The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilarates your stone. Stolen grass doesn't get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts”

Attitude Kindness Ethics Stones Grass Classic Sweetness Stolen Hippie Getting High Bad Attitude

Author:Stephen Gaskin

“The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.”

Understanding Inspiring Healing Compassion Source Birth Thought Provoking Pregnancy Childbirth Giving Birth Birthing Birth Of A Child Natural Childbirth

Author:Stephen Gaskin

“I'm a teacher, not a leader. If you lose your leader, you're leaderless and lost, but if you lose your teacher there's a chance that he taught you something and you can navigate on your own.”

Ifs Lost Loses Chance Leader Teacher Taught Navigate

Author:Stephen Gaskin

“Get your mind unbound and free; and then from the loosest, highest, best place you have, with the fastest and most humorous mind you can get together, you can reach out and make a try at understanding Spirit.”

Trying Mind Together Spirit Understanding Highest Humorous Reach Out Get Together Best Place Unbound

Author:Stephen Gaskin

“It’s easier to be God than to see God.”

Easier

Author:Stephen Gaskin

“I've seen couples that were having a hard times sexually try cannabis and have it just open their vibes until they were able to reestablish the thing that made them want to be together in the first place. They repaired their relationship with the increased communication grass brings. I've seen a fair amount of that.”

Want Trying Firsts Made Hard Able Together Communication Amount Couple Fairs Grass Hard Times Psychedelic Sexually Cannabis Vibes Having A Hard Time

Author:Stephen Gaskin

“I suddenly started feeling that the magic of psychedelics wasn't in some other world or some other place, but that they put you in communication with other people. Most of the really heavy things that happened to me were when I was stoned with other people, - when it get all honest, when it got really high and all golden and beautiful and bright and white-colored under the power of truth, when you looked at them and saw true compassion, and you knew they really did love you, and you knew you really did love them.”

People World Feelings Beautiful White Compassion Saws Happened Magic Honest Love You Communication Heavy Golden Psychedelic Other Worlds Heavy Things

Author:Stephen Gaskin

“Touch is the first language we speak.”

Firsts Speak Language

Author:Stephen Gaskin

“Children don't just get milk from breastfeeding, they get our energy too.”

Children Energy Milk Breastfeeding

Author:Stephen Gaskin

About the Author

Born: February 16, 1935
Died: July 1, 2014
Known for: Author
Quotes: 11

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