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.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Reality is made of words.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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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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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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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 artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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