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.
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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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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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 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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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