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.
TERENCE MCKENNABeing imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Reality is made of words.
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What 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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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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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