There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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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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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.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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