Terence McKenna Quotes

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

To be existing at all is beautiful simply because of how complicated and unexplainable being alive really is.

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Every experience has its element of magic.

All we behold is miracle.

Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.

Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

The world is its own magic.

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.