There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
TERENCE MCKENNATo 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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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 world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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 civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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 long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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