There is no knowledge without risk taking.
TERENCE MCKENNAHow can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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 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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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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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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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