We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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