Terence Quotes

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.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

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.

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

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

Language betrays, in order to mean.

Culture is your operating system.

A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.

It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

Time will perfect matter.