Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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 actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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