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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.

Terence McKenna

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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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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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 are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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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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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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