This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
TERENCE MCKENNAPeople without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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