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.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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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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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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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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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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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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