January 2010
99 posts
magnoliasurgeon:
“Neoteny” is “remaining young”, and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it. Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals — although a case could be made for the dolphins — because they seldom grow up. Behavioral traits...
“When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the...”
– Tom Robbins (via aidura)
“Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more...”
– Tom Robbins (via fierce-flawless)
“There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.”
– Tom Robbins (via majorbuildings)
"A psychedelic experience,
which is truly— can be— an enlightening experience, provides one instantaneously with a new cultural background. Just as if suddenly, after having been a WASP all of your life, you became one day suddenly totally and thoroughly Jewish. It’s almost that dramatic, and I felt that I was part of a different culture, but there were no other members of my ethnic group around.”
“Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until...”
– Tom Robbins (via ceilingexplorer)
PinPoint
keepitsafe:
“…so I do not have the strong political objection to the surreptitious work for your ‘company’. But, Agent Switter, I want very much to be completely honest in my dealing with you and your superiors, and the honest truth is, I, personally, could never fit in with your ‘company’. I am of a different character.”
“What character’s that, pal?”
“Well,” said Hector, a tinge of...
earlyfrost:
“Passion isn’t a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. It’s the deepest, wildest part of the forest; the grove where the fairies still dance and obscene old vipers snooze in the boughs. Everybody but the most dried up and dysfunctional is drawn to the grove and enchanted by its mysteries, but then they just can’t wait to call in the chainsaws and bulldozers and replace it...
“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully...”
– Tom Robbins (via question-reality)
“Leigh-Cheri went out in the blackberries and wept. “I’ll follow him to the ends...”
– Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker, pg. 128 (via wediscoveredfire)
thenelsonpaul:
“The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.”-Tom Robbins
“Logic only gives man what he needs…Magic gives him what he wants.”
– Tom Robbins (via skyexplode)
“The secondary function of a bathroom mirror is to measure murmurs in mental mud.”
– Tom Robbins (via mrofthemoon)
“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully...”
– Tom Robbins (via kyohtee)
“Don’t trust anybody who’d rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.”
– Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins (via neha-a-la-mode)
On love
Our sensual energy is the most powerful energy we possess, which is why it’s so baffling that every religious system in modern history has suppressed the sensual. Only in Hindu tantra did they have the wisdom and courage to employ sensuality and harness it for spiritual purposes. Sex and drugs, that’s where it’s always been. Rocket fuel to blast off into enlightenment.