“Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.” DifferentValuesConsciousnessAwarenessDrugPerceptionOppositesAddictionPatternsQuestioningRepetitionExaminationReconstructionDissolving Author:Terence McKenna
“Real love brings about calm-not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.” MayRealDrugOppositesCalmSatisfiedMiserableReal LoveTranquilityTormentCrave Author:Yasmin Mogahed
“Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.” GivingFeelsTermEffectsDrugOppositesImpressionShort Term Author:Douglas Coupland
“What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.” RealizingDrugOppositesAddictDrug AddictSave Me Author:Steve Earle
“Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner.” ThinkingPlayBigsDrugDecidedOppositesWinnerLoserAddictDrug Addict Author:Taryn Manning
“A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.” MovingHouseDrugOppositesAddictionBoxesAddictDrug AddictRefrigerators Author:Demetri Martin
“My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.” PeopleSelfReasonMotherLove IsViewsDrugOppositesAbuseAddictionAlcoholListsIndifferenceRejectionDestructiveAddictAlcoholicsDrug AddictSelf DestructiveSelf Destruct Author:Bernie Siegel