Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

Terence McKenna

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• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Simple
  • Boy
  • Bronx

• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Simple
  • Act
  • Analysis

• I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Me
  • Simple
  • Clothes

• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

  

  Warren R. Austin
  • Work
  • God
  • Spiritual

• The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Simple
  • Eye
  • Back

• I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Feeling
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Great
  • May
  • Simple

• My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Age

• Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Career

• I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Life
  • Love
  • Simple

• An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Simple
  • Study
  • English

• Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • History
  • True

• I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Want
  • Spiritual
  • Leader

• The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Business
  • Small
  • Simple

• There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • May
  • Simple
  • Sometimes

• Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Simple
  • Project
  • Meant To Be

• Just as the human memory is not a passive recorder but a tool in the construction of the self, so history has never been a simple record of the past, but a means of shaping peoples.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • History
  • Past
  • Simple

• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

  

  Dave Barry
  • People
  • Writing
  • Religious

• I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • People

• There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Simple
  • Spiritual
  • Obligation