Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
TERENCE MCKENNAHow can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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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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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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Reality is made of words.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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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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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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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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