Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
TERENCE MCKENNAIt is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Reality is made of words.
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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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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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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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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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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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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 the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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