George Greer quotes

“In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity... With a barrier of fear removed, a loving and forgiving awareness seemed to occur quite naturally and spontaneously.”
-- George Greer

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“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”

“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”

“Honor is better than honors.”

“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”

Source : "Faith in Liberalism". Address to the State Committee of the Liberal Party in New York City, August 28, 1952.

“The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness.”

Source : "XXVIII : The Inner Light of Torah in the Land of Israel". Translation by Rabbi Bezalel Naor, p. 208,

“The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.”

“I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.”

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“Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.”

“Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!”

“Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.”