Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.
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Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.
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I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.
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I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.
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I'm working relentlessly at becoming a better fighter than I was yesterday. I think I've really shown that I'm a more evolved fighter these days than I've ever been.
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To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
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The teacher you need is the person you’re living with.
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The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.
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O Lord...
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There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.
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All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.
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God Damn Belgium you were on tonight. Thank you for the love and passion you brought to the show with you tonight !!!
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Free will is an empty term.
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What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
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What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.
