Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

Terence McKenna

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• I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Ecstasy

• Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Single
  • Spiritual
  • Depth

• I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Joy
  • Ordinary
  • Ecstasy

• I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.

  

  Alexander Scriabin
  • Moment
  • Eternity
  • Affirmation

• I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Nature
  • Feels
  • Ecstasy

• Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

  

  Violette Leduc
  • Ecstasy
  • Jam
  • Raspberries

• The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Body
  • Vulnerable
  • Ecstasy

• I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Depression
  • Ecstasy
  • Cocaine

• There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Things
  • Wanting
  • Ecstasy

• I liked the scenes with the baby, but the baby steals all the scenes that you're in. So that would get old after a while, because the baby is too perfect. I liked being high on ecstasy.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Baby
  • Scenes
  • Ecstasy

• This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

  

  Charles Gounod
  • Music
  • Ecstasy
  • Ascetic

• I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Father

• Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Solitude
  • Ecstasy
  • Companion

• Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Joy
  • Constant
  • Ecstasy

• Shamanism is not a religion. It’s a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman’s path can become a way of life.

  

  Hank Wesselman
  • Religion
  • Humility
  • Way Of Life

• And just loving him with all her simple young heart and entirely believing in him, had made him, so completely commonplace before in all his utterances, suddenly—at least in the pulpit—sing. Was it acute, personal experience that one needed? Did one only cry out the truth really movingly when under some sort of lash, either of grief or ecstasy?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Believing

• Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism, absolute heroism.

  

  Juan Ramon Jimenez
  • Heroism
  • Ecstasy
  • Romanticism

• I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Comfortable
  • Shamanism
  • Hallucinogens

• Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.

  

  Petrarch
  • Desire
  • Books
  • Humor

• Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • World
  • Separated
  • Siddhartha

• Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Sometimes
  • Thrown

• Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Ecstasy
  • Shamanism