Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
Quotes to Explore
-
The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
-
The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
-
There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
-
It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
-
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
-
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
-
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
-
As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
-
Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.
-
The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
-
reported by Trudy Ring, 'Georgia Governor: 'License to Discriminate' Bill Isn't Christian,' The Advocate, March 3, 2016
-
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
-
In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.
-
I'm the type of guy who, right as I'm taking off, I'm deciding, 'Hey, where do I want to go today?'
-
I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.
-
When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.
-
At the end of the day, a playback singer has to depend on live shows as their source of income.
-
Let's just say I'm a believer in universal, single-payer healthcare insurance.
-
Am I being paid back for something I did? He asked himself. Something I don't know about or remember? But nobody pays back, he reflected. I learned that a long time ago: you're not paid back for the bad you do nor the good you do. It all comes out uneven at the end. Haven’t I learned that by now, if I've learned anything?
-
Every week, we read about horrific tragedies resulting from children who play with firearms and accidentally shoot themselves or their family members.
-
I have to be really honest: People who say they can't escape the paparazzi are full of sh*t. Let me just be the artist to throw everybody under the bus. I don't spend lots of money on houses or lots of cars, but I do spend money on security and they never find me.
-
Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.
-
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.
-
Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
