Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
TERENCE MCKENNAOur assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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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,
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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