Quotes by Brad Warner

Consider this:1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding entheogenic drug LSD?And heres a bonus question:2. Why does an expanded consciousness include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?

The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.

So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear that I will one day be annihilated and cease to exist.

When you get high on something - including spiritual bliss - there is always going to be a low. The comedown is your body / mind returning to balance, or the closest thing to balance that it knows. If you desperately crave bliss while your body / mind needs balance, you are bound to label the changeover as feeling bad, when in fact its the best thing that can happen.Zen practice is not about getting high on anything and in so doing, getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss and nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.

We always believe that theres going to be some high, just around the corner thats going to pull us way, way, way up, where well stay forever. If our current romance doesnt do that for us, well look for a new one. When the giddy high of the first date wears off, were ready for another fix.Theres no problem with loving something, we coupling up, with enjoying someones company, and all the rest. But if you want to enjoy all that stuff to the fullest, the best possible way to do it is to stop looking for the big highs, peak experiences, and sweeping flights of blissful romance. All that stuff just causes its own counterreactions. Watch your own body and mind, and youll see this for yourself.