Terence McKenna Quotes About Inspirational
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
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Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.
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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
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Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
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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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Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.
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Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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The engineers of the future will be poets.
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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.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
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