“Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of good mental health. Even those who don’t view peace of mind as a threat to their creative power… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're still half-asleep. May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses... My you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds, and one extrasolar planet... May you dream of taking a… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share
Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you? — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Your imagination is what you use to shape your future. And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless predictions every day. Your… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share
“Imagine that the whole world belongs to you. The birch trees in New Hampshire's White Mountains are yours, and so are the cirrus clouds in the western sky at dusk and the black sand on the beaches of Hawaii's big island. You own everything, my dear sovereign - the paintings in all the museums of the world, as well as… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share
Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of doom and gloom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We will laugh at the stupidity of evil and hate, and summon the brilliance of praise and create. . . Life is crazily in love with us-wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share
