The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
TERENCE MCKENNAThere is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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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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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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No one knows enough to worry.
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