“If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.” IfsIdeasClearArgumentMetaphorStrongest Author:Ben Casnocha
“I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?” IfsWritingRememberHearingOddsPassiveSkeptical Author:Ben Casnocha
“I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.” ThinkingIdeasNotionRetirement Author:Michael Moritz
“Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator” MindArtistGreaterEgoCreatorTranscendingRelinquishingRelinquishing Control Book:Art Psalms Source: Art Psalms
“Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive.” Love IsAliveShareBoundariesYour PresenceNo Boundaries Author:Alex Grey
“Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.” ImportantRealityBeautifulArtistPowerfulConsciousnessCreationProfound Author:Alex Grey
“The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other beings. The painting was based on a profoundly ego dissolving entheogenic mystical trance where I heard the words, 'Infinite Oneness... the Oneness should never forget the Infinitude and the Infinitude should never forget the Oneness...'” ShouldEyeFacesForgetUnitedConsciousnessVisionHeardFieldsPaintingEgoInfiniteOnenessCollectivesNever ForgetExpansionMysticalTranceDissolvingMany Faces Author:Alex Grey
“I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth” StatesEarthEnergyFeltFieldsPureMagneticMagnetic Fields Author:Alex Grey
“I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything” NeedsBelieveCertainCultureI BelieveAnswersAgreeI Believe InAcceptedTelephones Author:John C. Lilly
“It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.” WellsImaginationMemoriesDrawsTransformationCopies Author:Edgar Degas