“We are all living in a cognitive-dissonance reality. We want to live a certain way or do a certain thing, and we don’t because we are emotionally attached to how the group thinks. The hive mentality takes over. But you know what’s right in your mind and your heart, and if you’re strong enough to detach from the hive then sometimes, just sometimes, you may be able to do the right thing.”
– Erykah Badu in this interview.
“The universe is listening, be careful what you say in it/
My grandma told me every bed a n**ga make, he lay in it/
The church you go to pray in it, the work is on the outside/
Staring out the windows is for love songs and house flies…“
– Jay Electronica, “better in tune w the infinite“
“I quite often wake up and write down my dreams because I find them so completely mysterious. I can’t see what it was in me that made me put together that particular combination of items. I find the dreams are always much more brilliant in their construction than anything I consciously think of.”
“The number and depth of those moments of silence with activity in the production of a work directly influence the true value of the product“
– David Lynch
“Oh Great Spirit, help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.”
– Cherokee Prayer
“A person hears only what they understand”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition”
– Dr. Timothy Leary
“I don’t believe anything, but I have many suspicions.”
― Robert Anton Wilson
