Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. T
  4. Terence McKenna
  5. Life

Terence McKenna Quotes about Life

All Terence McKenna Quotes Age Anxiety Art Assumption Atmosphere Attitude Balance Belief Birth Boundaries Children Christianity Church Commitment Communication Community Confusion Consciousness Culture Darkness Dying Earth Effort Ego Energy Environment Evolution Feelings Flying Giving Greek Growth Heart Heaven Imagination Inspirational Internet Journey Language Life quotes Literature Lying Magic Manipulation Memories Metaphor Moon Nature Pain Past Perception Personality Perspective Philosophy Preparation Progress Purpose Reality Reflection Responsibility Revelations Revolution Sexuality Skins Soul Strategy Struggle Style Technology Terror Tradition Transformation Understanding Universe War Water Worry Yoga
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.

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

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

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

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

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

Terence McKenna
Life, Magic, Paganism

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Attention

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

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

How do we fight back? By creating art.

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Art

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

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

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Nature

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

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 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

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

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Secret

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

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

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Art

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

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

Terence McKenna
Life, Nature, Dmt

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

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Mind Blowing

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

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

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

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Reality

You May Also Like: