Memoirs of an Ex-Hippie Quotes

“God is not just outside of us but inside as well,” Pearl said, her eyes clear and sparkling. “There is an Inner Light, an Inner Divinity, within every person that is God. That is why we are all One. There is no punishing God, that reviews our life at the end and then sends us to heaven or hell. We just learn where we still need work. Our lives are to be used to learn to calm our thoughts and emotions so that we can love more clearly and respond to the Divine guidance we are always receiving but seldom hearing. We must learn we are the cause not the effect of our lives and to a large degree, everyone creates their own realities through their mental and emotional worlds. Change these and you change your reality.”
― Robert Roskind, Memoirs of an Ex-Hippie: Seven Years in the Counterculture

“Now I know I use the term “revolution” cavalierly and I do not mean to diminish true revolutions like the American, Cuban, or Chinese revolutions. After all our leaders were Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey and Wavy Gravy, not exactly in the same league as George Washington, Che Guevara and Mao Tse Tung. Our revolution was not against oppression and poverty but rather for paradise. Also to ask a revolutionary to put everything at risk and fight, perhaps to their death, for freedom is quite different than the sacrifices we were asked to make. We were asked to drop out of the work world, travel around unfettered, take consciousness-altering drugs, and make love to a lot of people. This was not a hard revolution to join.”
― Robert Roskind, Memoirs of an Ex-Hippie: Seven Years in the Counterculture

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” —Albert Einstein”
― Robert Roskind, Memoirs of an Ex-Hippie: Seven Years in the Counterculture