Quotes About Transformation

Pela primeira vez na vida eu teria o que sempre quisera: ia ser outra que não eu mesma.

Escucha superficialmente lo que digo y de la falta de sentido nacerá un sentido, como en mí nace inexplicablemente una vida alta y leve. La densa selva de palabras envuelve sólidamente lo que siento y vivo, y transforma todo lo que soy en algo mío que está fuera de mí. La naturaleza es envolvente; me cubre y es sexualmente viva, sólo estoy: viva. También estoy truculentamente viva, y lamo mi hocico como el tigre después de haber devorado el veneno.

I become so scared when I realize that over a period of hours I lost my human constitution. I don't know if I'll have another one to replace the lost one with. I know that I'll need to take care not to surreptitiously use a new third leg that can grow back in me as easily as a weed, and then call that protective leg "a truth".

Saldré de esta oscuridad donde tengo miedo, oscuridad y éxtasis. Soy el corazón de las tinieblas.

No huir, pero ir. Eso, tan dulce: no huir, ir... O gritar alto, alto y recto e infinito, con los ojos cerrados, tranquilos. Andar hasta encontrar las lucecitas rojas. Tan trémulas como en un comienzo o en un fin. También ella estaba muriendo, ¿o naciendo? No, no ir, quedarse rendida en el instante como la mirada absorta se prende en el vacío quiete, fija en el aire.

I lost something that was essential to me, and that no longer is. I no longer need it, as if I'd lost a third leg that up until then made it impossible for me to walk but that turned me into a stable tripod… I know I can only walk with two legs. But I feel the useless absence of that third leg and it scares me, it was the leg that made me something findable by myself, and without even having to look for myself.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Everything walks—leaves, stones, rivers. Nothing is still.

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began.

It was like my whole life suddenly went from black and white to glorious Technicolor

Ya no se trataba de volver de un viaje concluido al lugar de partida, tenía la sensación de que no volvería nunca a ser quien había sido.

The state of emergency is also always the state of emergence

contain. "You must change your life." And if we hardly know ourselves, "what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people?" Zuckerman poses the question in American

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

Dado que los efectos de las sustancias psicodélicas son tanto terapéuticos como espirituales, muchos de los que los han experimentado se han interesado en la meditación o en seguir un camino espiritual.

The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

He changed sunset into sunrise.

Fingernails filling with silt, scraping the sculpted...

The perfect tattoo... the one I believe we are all struggling toward... is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra.

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

I can't go back," said Towser. "Nor I," said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog," said Towser. "And me," said Fowler, "back into a man.

In order to be yourself you have to deconstruct the puzzle of who you were to become who you were meant to be.

The past is like a tattoo. Your life changes, but the tattoo is still there to remind you who you were and you forget who you are.