It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. — 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
Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close… — 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
“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
In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and… — 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
