Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhen you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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.
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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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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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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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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