It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
TERENCE MCKENNAHow do we fight back? By creating art.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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