You’re immortal as long as you live.
TERENCE MCKENNAWorrying is betting against yourself.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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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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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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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 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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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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