Reality is made of words.
TERENCE MCKENNABeauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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