Terence

Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWriter
worry enough knows
No one knows enough to worry.
ocean heart moon
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.
life dream collective-effort
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
reality psycho
Only psychos and shamans create their own reality
powerful real lying
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.
men sick mind-blowing
The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.
museums perception world
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
inspirational life spiritual
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
dmt long mind-blowing
We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.
mind-blowing apes facts
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
life fall communication
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
life animal ridiculous
The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
moving animal dmt
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
needs enlightened
There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.