Top 78 Quotes & Sayings by Rob Brezsny - Page 2

Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all. In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change. But its hackneyed omnipresence means the vast majority of its outbreaks are trivial. The paucity of colorful obscenities is aggravated by an abundance of frivolous fury.

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

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

To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you're smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness.

I will never again cast a curse on myself.

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

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

Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?

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