It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
TERENCE MCKENNABeauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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