Tom Robbins Quotes about Soul

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Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.

Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.

Tom Robbins

Drinking, Beer, Soul

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.411, Bantam

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

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

Tom Robbins

Hard Times, Joy, Soul

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.

Tom Robbins

Light, Soul, Dollars

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

Tom Robbins

Running, Soul, Mediocrity

Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.174, Random House

If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you - the Mystery. The one that can never be solved.

Tom Robbins

Dark, Thinking, Soul

Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim.

Tom Robbins

Aquariums, Swim, Soul

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.194, Bantam

In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.

Tom Robbins

Long, Soul, Lines

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

Tom Robbins

Soul, Brain, Divine

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.195, Bantam

Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

Tom Robbins

Land, Joy, Soul

Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.22, Bantam

More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.

Tom Robbins

Soul, Waxing, Mystery