Terence McKenna Quotes

We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

There's just an incredibly rich and interesting relationship between our listening to music and the way our minds engage.

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind

A medium is a bridge between two minds.

Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man.

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.

Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.” In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. “What’s the tenth thing?” I asked his shirtfront. He paused, considering it. “Never mind,” he grumbled. “That one would make me sound like a psycho, too.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.

I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.

You tried to slide his original curse back onto him?” Al said in wonder. “At the restaurant? And I stopped you? Sweet mother pus bucket!” he exclaimed, and I swear, dust sifted from the ceiling. “Rachel, we have to work on this communication thing.

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

Iain's gaze went back and forth between Gillian and Brodick. "Father Laggan's back," he remarked. "And there's another, younger priest named Stevens with him." "Why are you telling me this?" Brodick asked. "I just wanted you to know there are two priests available," Iain explained with a meaningful glance at Gillian.

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.