People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
TERENCE MCKENNADon’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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