It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou’re immortal as long as you live.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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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.
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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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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