You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
TERENCE MCKENNAOur ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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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.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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