Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

Terence McKenna

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• Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Like
  • Moral
  • Feel

• People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Written

• I can't really comment on rumors.

  

  Larry Page
  • Really
  • Rumors
  • Comment

• I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • America
  • Success
  • Failure

• Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Funny
  • Comment
  • Wire

• Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Education
  • Health
  • Committed

• It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Time
  • Evil
  • Religious

• True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Done
  • True
  • Happiness

• I’m committed to structural changes.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Changes
  • Committed
  • Structural

• ...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Running
  • Exciting
  • Committed

• I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis (that is the Federal Republic of Germany and France, the so-called Normandy Quartet, certainly, with close involvement of the United States, and we have intensified our dialogue on this issue), we should all be committed to the full and unconditional implementation of the agreements that were achieved in Minsk. The Minsk Agreements have to be implemented.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Crisis
  • Committed

• Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Eye
  • Hot
  • Ambiguity

• A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Writing
  • Facts
  • Remarkable

• Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Psychedelic
  • Substance
  • History Mankind

• It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them.

  

  George Washington
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Committed

• Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Decisions
  • Approach
  • Committed

• The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Filmmaker

• I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought. Elizabeth who goes by her middle name

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Moving
  • Track
  • Disappear

• Any sin that any sinner ever committed, every sinner under proper provocation could commit.

  

  Bob Jones, Sr.
  • Sin
  • Committed
  • Provocation

• With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.

  

  Gary Fisher
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Break

• 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

• Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Plant
  • Possession
  • Psychedelic

• Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Sex

• This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Committed
  • Psychedelic
  • Comment