Terence McKenna Quotes

Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.

All is as thinking makes it so

Reality is mind-made.

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

All we have is the story we tell.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

I could never wrap my head around why the world and the President that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the world and the President that I experience. And now I know why. There is a President Obama that only Republicans can see.

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

We live in condensations of our imagination

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.