Daniel Pinchbeck famous quotes

04-17-2025

Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Dream #Reality #Doors
We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Culture #Taste
In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Culture #Path
The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except as transitory illusion. If you could maintain that realization at all times, through waking and sleeping states of consciousness, across the threshold of death itself, what would you be?
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Death #Sleep #Unity
If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Thinking #Media #Doe
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Meaningful #Freedom #Real
Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the consciousness and the behavior of man, not even a catastrophe will bring about the change." ...
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Freedom #Men #Done
Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Jobs #Inspire #Want
The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Sadness #Past #Rocks
Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Mean #Growth #Different
If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked by modern astronomy and space science- 'Is there life out there?'- should be rephrased. Organic life, as well as intelligence, may already be a property enmeshed in the fabric of the cosmos, brought to fruition through the spiraling dynamics of the solar system and the galaxy, built into the structure of the universe itself.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Space #Growth #Cosmos
The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are manifesting reality to an ever-increasing extent- our collective shadow-projections of wasteful technologies, wars, and weaponry reflect subtler interior regions of our psyche and the discordant deceptions in our intimate relationships. If this interpretation is valid, it forces upon us a concomitant responsibility, a grave burden.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#War #Responsibility #Technology
Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took the place of a shared meal. We substituted matter for Mater (feminine principle), money for mother's milk, objects for emotional bonds.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Mother #Emotional #Fire
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our spiritual heritage by a spiteful culture that gives us nothing but ashes- as the talismans of recognition that awaken our minds to reality.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Spiritual #Cutting #Reality
Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Dream #Events #Chance
We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Comfort #Culture #Void
I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else. Most of the time, thinking is an autonomous process, something that happens outside of our control. This perception of machine-like quality of the self is something many people discover, then try to overcome, through meditation.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Thinking #Self #People
The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Apocalypse is to undergo it, first, within your own being.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Self #Grace #Ego
Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.
-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Focus #Tasks #Mindfulness

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