The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
TERENCE MCKENNAKnowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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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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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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