I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on. -Terence McKenna

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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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Being strong and positive is like holding your breath under water. You will never be able to do it forever. Sometimes crying out and express yourself will help you from drowning. ― Vivek Thangaswamy

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Sometimes, you promise someone forever, but it doesn't work that way.

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ― Henry David Thoreau

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In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types. -Terence McKenna

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The engineers of the future will be poets. – Terence McKenna

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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

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Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever. ― Omar Khayyám

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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. -Terence McKenna

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