Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe 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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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