The truth for sure, _x000D_ when it arrives, _x000D_ will make you smile. _x000D_ If it doesn't, _x000D_ you should seek _x000D_ a deeper truth.
Interpretation
Truth can bring joy, but if it doesn't, we may need to look for a deeper understanding.
This quote by Terence McKenna emphasizes the notion that the realization of truth should inherently lead to positive emotions and contentment. If the truth we encounter causes discomfort or unhappiness, it suggests that we may not have fully grasped the reality of the situation and should continue to explore and seek a more profound understanding.
In practice
This quote could be used during a motivational speech about the importance of seeking knowledge.
We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.
I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the quality of the split-second decisions you made.
Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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