Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.
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Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.
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Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.
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If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.
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Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos. There's a lot of concern about getting embroiled in another Vietnam and ... about sending American troops once again to fight someone else's war.
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Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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I had told one of my friends that I felt like I might be gay or that I just wasn't into girls, and I was abandoned.
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I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.
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Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.
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When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.
