Terence McKenna Quotes

I think in order to have eternal life, you have to have a soul, and the soul of the show is that we all really did love each other. I think that really came across.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know.

Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.

Nobody can miss you unless you go away.

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.

Trust, love, what we call sexy, who we trust in a business situation, are all based on how open we are. Openness is bodily openness, muscular relaxation, heart openness as opposed to hiding behind some emotional wall, and spiritual openness, which is actually feeling so fully into the moment that there's no separation between you and the entire moment.

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

If I were a painter I would paint my reverie If that's the only way for you to be with me

The main thing I learned doing love scenes with a woman was, if it's there, it's there.

There is no way into Presence except through a love exchange.

Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you're with them, you're there and not thinking about what you're gonna do tomorrow.

Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, if I meet you or if you escape, in the future or in heaven or in prison or underground, some other place. What they have in common is that they're not here. By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

I want you to stay. I never want there to be a time when we don't share space.