I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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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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