“The essence of the desert is that you are free to create your own world, your own visionary reality. … Both Burning Man and the Internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind.”
As quoted in "Digerati are unlikely celebrants of a primitivist conflagration in the Nevada desert." by Edward Rothstein, in The New York Times (21 July 1997) https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/21/business/digerati-are-unlikely-celebrants-primitivist-conflagration-nevada-desert.html
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Founder of Burning Man 1948–2018Related quotes
“Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.”
Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Lifestyle (2012) https://books.google.co.in/books?id=sBsG9V1oVdMC,
Audio lectures, Decadence and the New Age (March 10, 1989)
“Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.”
As quoted in An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period (1990) by Charles DeBenedetti, p. 223
Context: [The Yippie demonstrations] were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book Three: Part of the Parts
“what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?”
Source: City of Glass
“Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.”
As quoted in The Thought and Character of William James (1935) by Ralph Barton Perry, Vol. II, ch. 91
1890s
“It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.”