Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way. Tom Robbins More Quotes by Tom Robbins More Quotes From Tom Robbins Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.' Tom Robbins mean Minds were made for blowing. Tom Robbins made mind Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. Tom Robbins ego meditation mind The full moon - the mandala of the sky. Tom Robbins full-moon moon sky I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. Tom Robbins writing morning beach In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption. Tom Robbins artist men order I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf. Tom Robbins differences play golf Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek. Tom Robbins philosopher angel dancing Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. Tom Robbins equality different unique Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received. Tom Robbins given answers teacher Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt. Tom Robbins clock cups fifty You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you. Tom Robbins eye may lying A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. Tom Robbins circles spiritual food What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing 'Hamlet,' not to mention 'Tarzan of the Apes'), it seems to be as real as it is eerie. Tom Robbins buddhist typewriters real Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes. Tom Robbins music pain sweet The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies. Tom Robbins special-you identity lying Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night. Tom Robbins insecurity fun night You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore. Tom Robbins concerned technique blood My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it? Tom Robbins hell feel-good alive People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously. Tom Robbins ems hurt people
