Rob Brezsny Quotes

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• When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?
• Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence,…
• 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…
• The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into…
• Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.
• The "Kumulipo" is an old Hawaiian prayer chant that poetically describes the creation of the world. The word literally means "beginning-in-deep-darkness." Here darkness doesn't connote…
• Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.
• Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing…
• We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get…
• The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with…
• Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure you also enjoy…
• Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.
• In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own…
• Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change.... Your sweet spot…
• Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.
• You will have a growing knack for gravitating toward wilder, wetter, more interesting problems. More and more, you will be drawn to the kind of…
• But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a…
• On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss...
• Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret…
• You're alive because of love. You're made of love.

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