Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

Terence McKenna

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Friends

• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Theatre
  • Transformation

• All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Character
  • Best
  • Facts

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Cannot

• People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Important
  • Facts

• I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Be there as the witnessing presence of your inner state. You don’t have to do anything. With the awareness comes transformation and freedom.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Freedom
  • Transformation

• What would you suggest I do? Give everything away and walk the streets? The Buddhist says, 'Get rid of the possessions of the mind.' Walking away from all the money would not accomplish that. It's like the Beatles. I couldn't walk away from the Beatles. That's one possession that's still tagging along, right?

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Walking

• You used to get people writing in to the Liverpool Echo saying, ‘Who is this Martian walking round town?’ I used to get battered. Going out for lunch was like running the gauntlet.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • People
  • Writing
  • Running

• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Facts
  • Lead
  • Speculation

• Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Business
  • Experience

• The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • War
  • Drug

• I always travel with a fun skirt, a go-to dress you can dress up or down; walking heels & flats are a must.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Travel

• Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

  

  Jake Halpern
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Dark

• During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Men
  • Age

• Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.

  

  Norman Geisler
  • Views
  • Misinterpret
  • Evangelicals

• Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happy

• Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Guitar
  • Vague
  • Puberty

• This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Walking
  • Facts
  • Drug