Mind Blowing Quotes - Page 3

• Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

  Barack Obama

  Children, Muslim Faith, Slavery

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

  Barack Obama

  Islam, Hussein, Christianity

  "Obama U.N. Speech: A New Religion Doctrine" by Lauren Markoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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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, Secret

  "Alien Dreamtime". Live multimedia event in San Francisco, February 27, 1993.

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• If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and blow people's minds. But if you just chose to play stuff they know just to get a reaction, that's just being lazy.

  John Digweed

  Music, Blow, Play

  "The problem with mainstream EDM festivals" by Emilee Lindner, www.mtv.com. March 31, 2015.

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• Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

  Terence McKenna

  Silly, People, Understanding

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• This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

  Terence McKenna

  Magic, Bed, Done

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• The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Nature, Dmt

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• The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

  Terence McKenna

  Spiritual, Emotional, Culture

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• We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

  Terence McKenna

  Fighting, Intelligent, Icons

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• You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.

  Terence McKenna

  Community, Understanding, Looks

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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.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Commitment, Dmt

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• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Opposites, Technique

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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

  Flames, Looks, Earth

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• The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Dream, Collective Effort

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.48, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

  Terence McKenna

  Confusion, Dying, Purpose

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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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.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Future, Gun, Civilization

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• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

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• What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

  Terence McKenna

  Civilization, People, Trying

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• Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

  Terence McKenna

  Apes, Facts, Descent

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• Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Animal, Dmt

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• Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Views, Legs

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• Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

  David Eagleman

  Years, Next, Introducing

  "David Eagleman: 'We won't die - our consciousness will live forever on the internet'". Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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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.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Missing

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