I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
TERENCE MCKENNAI think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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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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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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