Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
TERENCE MCKENNACulture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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,
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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