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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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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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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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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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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 assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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