You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhen you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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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.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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.
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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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