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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. 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. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
― Terence McKenna
Dream
Teacher
Commitment
Terence McKenna
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
― Terence McKenna
Inspirational
Life
Light
Terence McKenna
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
― Terence McKenna
Reality
Hallucinations
Facts
Terence McKenna
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
― Terence McKenna
World
Tiny
Fractions
Terence McKenna
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 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.
― Terence McKenna
Years
Games
People
Terence McKenna
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
― Terence McKenna
Beautiful
Mind
Duty
Terence McKenna
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
― Terence McKenna
Government
Dmt
Terence McKenna
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
― Terence McKenna
Ego
Psychedelic
Absence
Terence McKenna
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
― Terence McKenna
Answers
Faces
Terence McKenna
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
― Terence McKenna
Mystery
Caught
Riddle
Terence McKenna
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. 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.
― Terence McKenna
Children
Pain
Moving
Terence McKenna
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
― Terence McKenna
Marijuana
Terence McKenna
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
― Terence McKenna
Reality
Astonishment
Response
Terence McKenna
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
― Terence McKenna
Dmt
Cost
Terence McKenna
Worrying is betting against yourself.
― Terence McKenna
Worry
Betting
Terence McKenna
The only real experience that counts, is your own.
― Terence McKenna
Real
Terence McKenna
We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. 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.
― Terence McKenna
Jobs
Player
Games
Terence McKenna
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
― Terence McKenna
Mushrooms
Psilocybin
Terence McKenna
Claim 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.
― Terence McKenna
Light
Imagination
Empowerment
Terence McKenna
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.
― Terence McKenna
Real
Magic
Terence McKenna
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