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Terence McKenna103 quotes“Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.”
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna You’re immortal as long as you live.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna No one knows enough to worry.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna How do we fight back? By creating art.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.
Ahmet ZappaAhmet Zappa The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.
Ahmed RashidAhmed Rashid System that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, “leur impose”, Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods.
Adrienne MonnierAdrienne Monnier You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle.
Adel al-JubeirAdel al-Jubeir Clearly understand that the only limitations you will ever have are the limitations you impose upon yourself. You truly do have infinite potential.
Bob ProctorBob Proctor Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman
