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Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Tom Robbins
Adventure, Light, Soul

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Tom Robbins
Fun, Adventure, Destiny
Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.19, Bantam

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

Tom Robbins
Adventure, Life Is, Solitary
Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.28, Bantam

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

Tom Robbins
Adventure, Tomatoes, Sauce
"(Revisiting) The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. May 9, 2014.

Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

Tom Robbins
Adventure, Choices, Cocoons

As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.

Tom Robbins
Military, Believe, Adventure
Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

Tom Robbins
Writing, Adventure, Journey

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

Tom Robbins
Suicide, Adventure, Differences
Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.112, Bantam

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

Tom Robbins
Writing, Adventure, Journey

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

Tom Robbins
Suicide, Adventure, Differences
Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.112, Bantam

Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.

Tom Robbins
Book, Adventure, Writing

Admittedly, having a bit of disposable cash in the bank can give you a sense of Buddhistic calm, and despite the fallacy involved, that's probably preferable to the bonafide adventure of robbing a bank. A better alternative, however, is to learn to be at peace even when common sense (a highly overrated virtue) would lead you to believe that someone in your situation ought to feel threatened and insecure.

Tom Robbins
Believe, Adventure, Insecure

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