No one knows enough to worry.
TERENCE MCKENNAOne thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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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.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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 the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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