Occluded Quotes

#1. The woman who had been born in an imperial palace, and then, as Queen of France, had had hundreds of rooms in her dwelling house, was now imprisoned in a tiny basement cell, its walls streaming with damp, and its grated window half occluded.

Stefan Zweig

#2. The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.

Terence McKenna

#3. As time passed from solstice to mild solstice in those occluded zones of my early childhood, I played beneath the distracted majesty of my mother's blue-eyed gaze. With her eyes on me I felt as if I were being studied by flowers.

Pat Conroy

#4. It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

Terence McKenna

#5. It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.

Bernie Siegel

#6. The two favorite episodes of 'Lost' that Adam and I wrote were 'Dave,' which was where Hurley has an imaginary friend, and 'Trisha Tanaka is Dead,' where Hurley finds a van and starts it.

Edward Kitsis

#7. Our prayers don't die when we do. God answers them forever.

Mark Batterson

#8. How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

Robert Jordan

#9. Look for the beauty in things.

Maya Angelou