Terence McKenna Quotes

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

As you grow and get older, you evolve.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

None of us are what we once were.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

Some age, others mature.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there's no growth.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

My life has been about big changes.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.