Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.
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Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
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Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.
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My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.
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She wished he’d stop touching her. Not because she didn’t like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.
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We cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran. It would be a game changer. Not only would it threaten Israel, a country that is our stalwart ally, but it would also create an environment in which you could set off an arms race in this Middle East.
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We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.
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If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?
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When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.
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To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.' Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?' He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them.
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Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all.
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He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.
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We will not tolerate any harassment of the other community.
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The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.
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Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
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Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
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I've had the same core group of friends that I've always had. We're surfing, so that definitely keeps you grounded.
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The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
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Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.
