We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
TERENCE MCKENNANo one knows enough to worry.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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Reality is made of words.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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