Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
TERENCE MCKENNAWe are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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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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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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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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