Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
TERENCE MCKENNAWhen we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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