For all we know, we know nothing.
TERENCE MCKENNAThis 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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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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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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 Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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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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