Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

Today life opened inside me like an egg.

You can't find that moment when you became somebody else, because everything is in flux. So as it were, the torturous period where you are changing, you are transforming - I think that can be very hard on somebody's system. You don't necessarily realize that is what's happening.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Shooting movies has changed, and me too - I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the films, I think.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself.

Now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion - more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better, it is, thank God, releasing more of me.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.