Ascent Quote by Terence McKenna Download Open image “This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.” — Terence McKenna ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ascent Levels Nature Self Series Transforming
Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
“Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads to transformation… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
People reach a point of readiness for change when they reach their own personal bottom. — Marshall Sylver Copy Share Image
The more frequently you allow the Self to manifest, greater the possibility of it being active for longer duration. In due course, gradually, the… — Dhruva Bhargava Copy Share Image
Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth. — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
“Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher… — Roopleen Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it.… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image