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.
TERENCE MCKENNAPsychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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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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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Reality is made of words.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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