These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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