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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
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.
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ― Albert Einstein
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.
Nature conserves, prefers novelty. -Terence McKenna
There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong. -Terence McKenna
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
