Top 29 John Lilly Quotes
#1. Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.
John Lilly
#2. It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else.
Rupert Graves
#3. Beliefs are limits to be transcended.
John Lilly
#4. 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
#5. I have explored and have voluntarily entered into domains forbidden by a large fraction of those in our culture who are not curious, are not explorative and are not mentally equipped to enter these domains.
John C. Lilly
#6. Cosmic Love is absolutely Ruthless and Highly Indifferent: it teaches its lessons whether you like/dislike them or not.
John C. Lilly
#7. In the province of the mind, there are no limits.
John C. Lilly
#8. 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
#9. I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don't answer the telephone, we don't have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything
John C. Lilly
#10. You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.
John C. Lilly
#11. Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy ... We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis.
The Invisible Committee
#12. 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
#13. Elizabeth Bachinsky, Darren Bifford, Jason Camelot, Rachel Cyr, Tara Flanagan, Lilly Fiorentino, John Goldbach, David McGimpsey, Evan Munday, Sachiko Murakami, Ian Orti, Marisa Grizenko, Christina Palassio, Mike Spry, Darren Wershler.
Jon Paul Fiorentino
#15. 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
#16. Our only security is our ability to change.
John Lilly
#17. For when it starts feeling like a prison in there - and it usually does for most people - you are confronted with the fact that the bars are of your own making.
John C. Lilly
#18. It took a woman to actually do something about the lack of women in creative departments.
Cindy Gallop
#19. In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
#20. 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
#21. Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.
Ronald Reagan
#22. On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. I feel that I am merely an agent, giving you some keys that have been given to me to pass on to you. These keys are to unlock doors out of your present prison. Doors opening onto new vistas. Doors beyond where you are now.
John C. Lilly
#24. It was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not an ending within her grasp.
John Irving
#25. Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do
Mark Hatfield
#27. As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, "Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here."
John C. Lilly
#28. And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.
Susan May Warren
#29. Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note.
'Sorry,' said the note.
'Just not big enough.
John Irving
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