“The mushroom said to me once: nature loves courage, nature loves courage and I said: what's the payoff on that? And it said it shows you that it loves courage because it will remove obstacles. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood this is the shamanic dance in the waterfall this is how magic is done it's done by hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering that it's a feather bed and there's no other way to do it.”

From: Unfolding The Stone - Making and Unmaking History and Language