Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn Tom Robbins More Quotes by Tom Robbins More Quotes From Tom Robbins The beet is the most intense of vegetables Tom Robbins beetsintensevegetables True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. Tom Robbins organizationwaitingorder Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better. Tom Robbins comparewritinghelping My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people. Tom Robbins rainjoypeople In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. Tom Robbins authorityrespectableorder The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. Tom Robbins missionsmagicartist Cries for help are frequently inaudible. Tom Robbins cryhelping Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being. Tom Robbins evolvestatespurpose If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does. Tom Robbins artistrealpeople Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. Tom Robbins beefmagiccutting On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things. Tom Robbins essencerainfall When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around. Tom Robbins strollerswheelchairsyoung The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. Tom Robbins bagsdoemen True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. Tom Robbins stabilityresultsorder Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid. Tom Robbins mermaidoysterskissing Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you. Tom Robbins still-life-with-woodpeckerawakehalf Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished. Tom Robbins momentsessencedoe The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized. Tom Robbins lazypracticeenemy The function of the artist is to provide what life does not. Tom Robbins functionartistdoe There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top. Tom Robbins good-luckevilmoving
