I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning. Tom Robbins More Quotes by Tom Robbins More Quotes From Tom Robbins The beet is the most intense of vegetables Tom Robbins beets intense vegetables 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 organization waiting order Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better. Tom Robbins compare writing helping 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 rain joy people In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. Tom Robbins authority respectable order The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. Tom Robbins missions magic artist Cries for help are frequently inaudible. Tom Robbins cry helping Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being. Tom Robbins evolve states purpose 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 artist real people Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. Tom Robbins beef magic cutting 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 essence rain fall 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 strollers wheelchairs young The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. Tom Robbins bags doe men True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. Tom Robbins stability results order Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid. Tom Robbins mermaid oysters kissing Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you. Tom Robbins still-life-with-woodpecker awake half 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 moments essence doe 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 lazy practice enemy Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn Tom Robbins way The function of the artist is to provide what life does not. Tom Robbins function artist doe
