John C. Lilly famous quotes

04-12-2025

As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation -- a misrepresentation.
-- John C. Lilly

#Lying #Bullshit #Misrepresentation
In the province of the mind, there are no limits.
-- John C. Lilly

#Mind #Limits
I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we donâ€™t answer the telephone, we donâ€™t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything
-- John C. Lilly

#Believe #Needs #Culture
The miracle is that the universe created a part of itself, to study itself,â€¨and that this part in studying itself finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities.
-- John C. Lilly

#Reality #Miracle #Study
The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than he is in a tightly organized group.
-- John C. Lilly

#Wise #Intelligent #Groups
Presumably there are energies, to which each human is sensitive, that we cannot yet detect by means of our instruments. Built into our brains and our bodies are very sensitive tuneable receivers for energies that we do not yet know about in our science but that each one of us can detect under the proper circumstances and the proper state of mind. We can tune our nervous systems and bodies to receive these energies. We can also tune our brains and bodies to transmit these energies.
-- John C. Lilly

#Mean #Brain #Mind
As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, â€œEvery psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here.â€
-- John C. Lilly

#Order #Voice #Lsd
All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.
-- John C. Lilly

#World #May #Today
In the centre of the cyclone one is off the wheel of Karma, of life, rising to join the Creators of the Universe, the Creators of us. Here we find that we have created Them who are Us.
-- John C. Lilly

#Karma #Cyclones #Rising
You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.
-- John C. Lilly

#Order #Suffering #Chaos
There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.
-- John C. Lilly

#Mistake #Errors #Program
The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.
-- John C. Lilly

#Assuming #Wells #Universe

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