Source: Quoted in "The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution" by Frank White
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
Variant: And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
Source: I Shall Wear Midnight
Book One, Part III “White Lynx”, Chapter 1 (p. 78)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936)
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at actually begin to change.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 1 : Growing Up "Outside", p. 17
“Memories are ever shifting when you live in exile.”
Interview with the Art Newspaper (13 August 2020)
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Context: At a certain age, you have to make yourself useful for others. When you have lived and life has given you an experience, whether good or bad, the moment arrives when you should pass on what you know. Rather than turn into a dumb old person, you should go further every time. Aging does not exist, neither does mental decline. The memory can have less capacity to find a word or maybe you can feel less sexual desire, less virulence, but there is no reason for desire to have disappeared. If, during your life you have worked the emotions, when you mature you begin to know sublime feelings, which you did not have when you were young because nature did not let you. It takes forty years to find yourself. The true opening of the consciousness cannot be had before this age. From there, the journey begins.
