Distinction Quote by Terence McKenna

“Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind...”

Terence McKenna

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History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you…

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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

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What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense…

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What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

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And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

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Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types…

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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

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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.…

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I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature…

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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

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The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in…

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

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“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a…

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I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

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Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to sense a…

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the…

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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

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I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and…

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I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it…

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