Tom Robbins Quotes

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.

I can show you new things, have you feeling spiritual.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

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.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

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.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.