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.
TERENCE MCKENNAIf you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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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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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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