Reality is made of words.
TERENCE MCKENNANo one knows enough to worry.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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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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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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