Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.
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But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.
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Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love
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The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.
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I write the most sexiest records out.
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I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.
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One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the housing projects that they were putting up for the poor were going to turn into crack dens and rapists' bowers and things of that sort, which they have since become. But you can't always foresee the future. I'm sure their intentions were the best.
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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
