You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
TERENCE MCKENNAThese allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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 we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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 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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