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.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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