Terence McKenna Quotes

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

Everyone is constantly transitioning.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Life is one big transition.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.

With time, everything changes. I know I'm not the same person who I used to be. I totally get that.

Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

Everybody is changing.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.