Worrying is betting against yourself.
TERENCE MCKENNANobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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