Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.
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The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.
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I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
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I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.
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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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Let the world call me a fool,But if things are right with me and you,That's all that matters.And I'll do anything you asked me to.
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All things living are in search of a better world.
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When people hear music that is spiritual it gets through. Music that is Godlike and loving gets through. I don’t have any power in this world, but I have spiritual power. I think God gave me my music and my talent. I’m trying to get across a feeling of spirituality; I think I have a spiritual influence on people.
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Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.
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The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
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Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
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The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.
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I - at the table reads, I break constantly. If something is up there that I'm not expecting, I tend to - I can't help myself; I'll start laughing.
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To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.
