Mind Blowing Quotes

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  Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Knowing, Empowering

  Twitter post from May 19, 2012

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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. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Teacher, Commitment

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

  Terence McKenna

  Answers, Faces, Blowing It

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• You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Listening, Half

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

  Terence McKenna

  Mushrooms, Psilocybin, Psychedelic

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

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Cost, Levels

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• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Light

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• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Responsibility, Understanding, Notion

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

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• Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

  Terence McKenna

  Government, Information Processing, Dmt

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• You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

  Terence McKenna

  Secret, Blowing It

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• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

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• Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, College, Play

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• My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

  George Benson

  Player, Guitar, Careers

  Interview with Edina Patsy, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

  Andrew Taylor

  People, Band, Blowing It

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• Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Beauty, Taken, Simple

  Interview with Stephen Colbert at Montclair Kimberley Academy, January 29, 2010.

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• It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.

  Terence McKenna

  War, Engineering, Years

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• I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, People, Islam

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. 2008.

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• I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Religious, Believe

  Interview with Cathleen Falsani, www.beliefnet.com. March 27, 2004.

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• In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

  Barack Obama

  Book, Greek, Gita

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.203, Canongate Books

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• By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

  Alan Watts

  Curiosity, Pushing, Comfort

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• Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Funny, Eggs, Bird

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2013

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• On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, New Year, Easter

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.204, Canongate Books

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• Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Names, Dmt

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• My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

  Ryan Adams

  Thinking, Ideas, Feel Good

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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