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.
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 tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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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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