Rob Brezsny Quotes - Page 3

Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

I will never again cast a curse on myself.

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

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.

Love enmeshes you in your partner's unique set of karmic complications, so make sure you're very interested in his or her problems. Love is a laboratory where you can uncover secrets about yourself that have previously been hidden, so be ravenously curious.

All of creation is alive and conscious, and all of creation deserves our burning, churning, yearning love. All of it. Not just the people and creatures and things that we personally find beautiful and helpful and interesting. But everything. All of creation.

Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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. Brian Swimme

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

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