Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
TERENCE MCKENNAKnowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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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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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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