Rob Brezsny Quotes

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 the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

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 to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.

All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.

Proclaim the only truth you can be totally sure of: "I don't know."

You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power. Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.

On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss.

Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.

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

Break open the forbidden happiness.

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us.

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.

Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.

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 a copycat crime.

You're hungry for the infinite and the infinite is hungry for you.

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

Somewhere in the world there is a person who could ask you the precise question you need to hear in order to catalyze the next phase of your evolution. Do what's necessary to run into that person.

Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses.

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality.

Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.

We're searching for the answers so we can destroy them and dream up better questions.

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 gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

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

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

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

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

Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.

What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?

I will never again cast a curse on myself.

Life always delivers the creative energy you need to change into the new thing you must become.

Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.

In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.

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

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

When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?

Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.

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

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

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.