Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
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Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.
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"I think you have to be ready to quit within yourself. If you're not, it doesn't matter what rehab you go to."
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To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
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When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.
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A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
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The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.
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The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
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From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.
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The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
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I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
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Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.
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Women are always passionately certain that they are right, and neither counsel nor entreaty can get them to believe that there can be any other side to a case than that which they take.
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I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
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Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.
