The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
TERENCE MCKENNANature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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When 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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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