Tom Robbins Quotes

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Any desire to grow is following the flow of love

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

Spirituality is not about what you know. It is about growing, deepening, evolving and becoming a living reflection of your spiritual identity.

A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of consciousness.

The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.

I'm no buddhist, but this is fu**ing enlightmentment