Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
Quotes to Explore
-
Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
-
The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
-
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
-
I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
-
Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
-
Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
-
The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.
-
I've got angels watching out for me.
-
Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
-
I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure.
-
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
-
I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.
-
Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.
-
When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.
-
It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all.
-
The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.
-
We photographers have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.
-
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
-
Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
