It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
TERENCE MCKENNAClaim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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