Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
TERENCE MCKENNATo 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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