When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
TERENCE MCKENNANature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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No one knows enough to worry.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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