Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe 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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Reality is made of words.
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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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