Mckenna Long Quotes

#1. We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.

Terence McKenna

#2. A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.

Terence McKenna

#3. An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

Terence McKenna

#4. What matters isn't whether or not you're frightened, but how you behave.

Raymond E. Feist

#5. Without even realising or trying, you got me.

Gabrielle Tozer

#6. The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.

Zeena Parkins

#7. We know we're ready for something because it happens.

Jeannie Levig

#8. Terence McKenna pointed out that the profundity of [halluncinogenic inebriation] and its potential for a positive feedback into the process of reorganizing the personality should have long ago made psychedelics an indispensable tool for psychotherapy.

Rick Doblin

#9. I'd waited for this opportunity with Claudia for a long time - ever since elementary school when I tried to impress her on the monkey bars and woo her with my crayon drawings. But I couldn't have been with her any sooner. You can't expect someone to love a shadow.

Suzanne McKenna Link

#10. Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

Terence McKenna

#11. The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#12. Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

Thomas Moore

#13. Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real, and for a moment she felt herself to be a girl who has come down off a porch to confront a great darkness with a tiny light.

Laini Taylor

#14. Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

Lu Yu

#15. I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.

Terence McKenna

#16. My mouth could deny my interest in Kelly all day long, but my pussy didn't lie. He felt like more than a single person. Two hands, a hard body, a mean voice. A one-man orgy. I'd leave here limping, just as he'd promised.

Cara McKenna

#17. You're immortal as long as you live.

Terence McKenna

#18. Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning of the poem is the poem.

Pattiann Rogers

#19. I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.

Sara Paretsky

#20. Facing a situation head on was the only way to deal with anything. I learned the lesson early.

Lauren Bacall

#21. Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.

Terence McKenna

#22. Lots of unbelievable things happened. Every day. Things like gravity.

Myra McEntire

#23. I'm not a stray," he said. "I'm. Not. Right. In. The. Head." He jabbed his temple, and the bump on my own head seemed to throb. "I'm fucking rabid and mangy, and I'll piss all over your carpets if I stick around long enough. I'll take what you give me, but I'm not nice, Adrian.

C.M. McKenna

#24. It still stung, knowing that he would rather see me with someone else than give me my moment, but I had to be mature about it. It wasn't about me.

Mina V. Esguerra

#25. The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

Terence McKenna

#26. Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch just announced that he is stepping down after three years. When asked if he's looking for a new job, he was like, 'Nah, just browsing.'

Jimmy Fallon

#27. We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others '.

Brennan Manning

#28. I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.

Terence McKenna

#29. What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.

Terence McKenna

#30. The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

Terence McKenna

#31. Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

Terence McKenna