Terence Quotes

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

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.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

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.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

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?

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

Pointing out that countless great mathematicians had tried to solve the problem and failed before you came along is in particularly bad taste and should be avoided completely.

The living room should be a place where we feel totally at ease - temple of the soul.

... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.

Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

Worrying is betting against yourself.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.

Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.

Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

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

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

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.

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

How do we fight back? By creating art.

If we are to understand anything of the human mind we must approach the people of the past with humility rather than an overconfident superiority.

Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

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.

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.

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

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.

The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.