Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
TERENCE MCKENNAWe are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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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.
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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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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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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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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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