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.
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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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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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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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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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