Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
TERENCE MCKENNATo 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Reality is made of words.
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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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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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