Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
TERENCE MCKENNAI 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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Don’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.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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