"I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand."

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”

“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.”

“One reason I like to talk about Heaven, think about Heaven and read about Heaven is because, after all, that's where we're going to spend Eternity, so it's a pretty important place and we ought to be pretty interested, don't you think? It's our Eternal Home, the place Jesus has gone to prepare for us forever, so we certainly ought to be interested in it and want to know what it's like and what we're going to be like when we get there!”

“Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say WITH respect.”

“I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.”

“It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.”

“Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.”

“The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.”

Source : Philip Berrigan, Fred Wilcox (1996). “Fighting the lamb's war: skirmishes with the American Empire : the autobiography of Philip Berrigan”, Common Courage Pr