Quotes by Understanding Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy. Terence McKenna psychedelicunderstandingshould Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night. Terry Eagleton understandingowlnight Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through faith. Savage force is faith's obedient servant. Violence on an apocalyptic scale can only be born of faith because reason, by its very nature, disarms senseless cruelty. Only faith thinks to justify it. Terry Goodkind understandingideasthinking Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others. Terry Eagleton movementunderstandingreading The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education. Terence McKenna atmosphereunderstandingtrying There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness. Terence McKenna technologyunderstandingintellectual You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. Terence McKenna mind-blowingcommunityunderstanding Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the world shows that pretty much any idea will do - it need not reflect reality or truth, merely function to fascinate, distract, and compel. We are designed for belief, not for truth. Terry Rossio understandingrealityideas We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being. Terry Riley break-throughunderstandingrace Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions. Terry Winograd progressunderstandingmeaningful All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all. Terry Eagleton communicationmiracleunderstanding The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough. Terry Goodkind understandingsoundkindness Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding. Terry Goodkind anarchytoleranceunderstanding The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do. Thabo Mbeki opiniondifferencesunderstanding Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he designed his own house, it was always with bright colours. Very un-English! Thelma Schoonmaker understandinghouseart The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that. Terry Tempest Williams understandingsorrowjoy I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience. Terence McKenna understandingmenthinking It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.... This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion. Swami Vivekananda understandingknowingmen I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions. Terence McKenna institutionsunderstandingthinking The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language. Terence McKenna spaceunderstandingreality«164165166167168169170171172173174»
