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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
― Terence McKenna
Answers
Faces
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
― Terence McKenna
Mystery
Caught
Riddle
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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. 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
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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
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
― Terence McKenna
Reality
Astonishment
Response
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
― Terence McKenna
Dmt
Cost
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
― Terence McKenna
Worry
Betting
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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
― Terence McKenna
Real
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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
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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
― Terence McKenna
Mushrooms
Psilocybin
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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
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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.
― Terence McKenna
Real
Magic
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
― Terence McKenna
Talking
Proof
Knows
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
― Terence McKenna
Religious
Clothes
Prejudice
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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.
― Terence McKenna
Inspirational
Life
Believe
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
― Terence McKenna
Animal
Imagination
Mind
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
― Terence McKenna
Real
Imagination
Library
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The engineers of the future will be poets. – Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna
Engineer
Poet