Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I hate competition.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
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When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.
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One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
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I was acting when I was playing baseball.
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There's an overemphasis on conservation and other idyllic energy sources that can be harmful in that it hampers new technology and innovation.
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I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.
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If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?
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Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.
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What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'
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Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.
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The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.
