Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.
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I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.
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I've seen some remarkable games, but never anything like that.
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Begin with the possible; begin with one step.
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Experience is the mother of custom.
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I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.
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Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.
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Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.
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The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.
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Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.
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I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent. He was a dynamic young boy. His phraseology, his way of looking at a song, was as unique as Sinatra's. I was a tremendous fan, and had Elvis lived, there would have been no end to his inventiveness.
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Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
