Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Reality is made of words.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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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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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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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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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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