The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
TERENCE MCKENNAAlcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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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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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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