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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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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Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for immortality.
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It was there that we really first came in contact with the work of Shoji Hamada, who was Bernard's best friend from Japan, who had come from Japan back to England with Bernard Leach when Leach was establishing his pottery.
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
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Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
