Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
TERENCE MCKENNAAlcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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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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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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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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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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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