Terence McKenna Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Light

• The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Dream, Collective Effort

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.48, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

• Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

• Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Missing

• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

• It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

• Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Religious, Feelings

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

• Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Magic, Paganism

• I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Art, Children

• The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Nature, Fall

• I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Thinking, Toxic

• Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

• The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Nature, Dmt

• The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Animal, Ridiculous

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

• Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Mind Blowing

• Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

  Terence McKenna

  Life, Lying, Self

• Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

• The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Attention

• As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Individual

• Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

• Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Secret

• How do we fight back? By creating art.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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