“not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is divine in people; it is a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women?… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Ellen Cherry understood then that religion was an improper response to the Divine.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“As a grandiose self-deception, war is o’ the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“With me, something different and deep, in bright focus and pointing the way, arrived in the practice of hitchhiking. I am the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“But the most insidious and dangerous of false religions is secular humanism. It’s so crafty, so sneaky, with its kindness and its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“ 'how then does soul differ from spirit?' you're probably asking yourself. although he must have been reasonably sure nobody was. "Well,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The notion that inspired play (even when audacious, offensive, or obscene) enhances rather than diminishes intellectual vigor and spiritual fulfillment, the notion… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve toward a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being; to return to Eden, make… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Soul is not even that Crackerjack prize that God and Satan scuffle over after the worms have all licked our bones. That's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If a person leads an ‘active’ life, as Wiggs had, if a person has goals, ideals, a cause to fight for, then… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“And if your master truly loved you, he would tell you that. In order to escape the bounds of earthly experience, you… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die -… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. — Tom Robbins Copy Share
