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Terence McKenna Quotes: 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?
         

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?


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



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



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



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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.



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



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