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.
TERENCE MCKENNAHow do we fight back? By creating art.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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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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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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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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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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