Terence McKenna Quotes

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

In every end, there is also a beginning.

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.

Whoever I had become had to die.

All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

A new time is coming both for my personal life, and the brand Ann Demeulemeester. I feel it's time to separate our paths.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months.

Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

I believe that life is about doing. It's about changing. It's about transitioning. I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.

I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.