Tom Robbins Quotes

I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can't communicate otherwise.

I try to get out of an image's way in order to let it articulate what is hidden.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of violence and difference—and to reach the transcendent or divine …

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Light is but the shadow of God.

I'm actually very spiritual.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

Dreams are the language of God.

The Highest Being reveals himself in man.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

The illuminated ones can take any form -- a man, a woman, a child, an elder, or even a dog. It is not inconsequential that the English language allows for the dyslexia of the spelling of the word dog: God spelled backward.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.

You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.