One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
TERENCE MCKENNAOur assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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To 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.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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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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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Reality is made of words.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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 do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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