Terence McKenna Quotes

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.

I really feel strongly that we can make change for every person. And it will be radical in the person's life.

Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

As you shift and change your own experience, the experience of the whole human race begins to shift and change as well. So this is important work you are doing, this business of changing your life.

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

There is a wonderful book called "Gandhi's Truth," by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.

Yes, we see that there are problems in the world. But we believe in a universal force that, when activated by the human heart, has the power to make all things right.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for the purpose of correcting past injustices, a revolution involves a projection of man/woman into the future...It begins with projecting the notion of a more human human being, i.e. a human being who is more advanced in the specific qualities which only human beings have - creativity, consciousness and self-consciousness, a sense of political and social responsibility.

Transformed people transform cities.

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

The world will not change until we do

One of the things I love best about [my] 'Kind Diet' is that you will actually become part of the solution to our global problems.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.