42 Quotes by Peter J. Carroll

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

As a great master once observed: “There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse.” Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water .

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through th agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence.

So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.