Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give... by Rob Brezsny

Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.

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I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.

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Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds... by Rob Brezsny

Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

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The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano

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Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful thing... by Rob Brezsny

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things.

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I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Go... by Rob Brezsny

I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul.

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You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen i... by Rob Brezsny

You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen in the past.

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BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.

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God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to... by Rob Brezsny

God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

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May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once... by Rob Brezsny

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years.

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You're alive because of love. You're made of love. by Rob Brezsny

You're alive because of love. You're made of love.

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Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize how demanding it will be to turn yourself into a wildly disciplined, radically curious, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, ingeniously loving, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate master of rowdy bliss?

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The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter. And we believe that if you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it's impossible to become the gorgeous genius you were born to be. That's why we implore you to nourish yourself with delicious, nutritious tales and tunes that inspire you to exercise your willpower for your highest good.

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Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil. by Rob Brezsny

Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.

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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 far more that their fair share of attention everywhere else. Future historians might even conclude that our age suffered from a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder: the pathological need to repetitively seek out reasons for how bad life is.

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Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing... by Rob Brezsny

Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.

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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 gloom and evil. Rather, it's about the inscrutability of the embryonic state; the obscure chaos that reigns before germination.

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The Sun, each second, transforms four million tons of itself into light, giving itself over to become energy that we, with every meal, partake of. For four million years, humans have been feasting on the Sun’s energy stored in the form of wheat or reindeer.

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