Rob Brezsny
I will never again cast a curse on myself.Collection: Curse
You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen in the past.Collection: Past
Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.Collection: Nihilism
In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.Collection: Judging
All of creation is alive and conscious, and all of creation deserves our burning, churning, yearning love. All of it. Not just the people and creatures and things that we personally find beautiful and helpful and interesting. But everything. All of creation.Collection: Beautiful
On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss.Collection: Blessing
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.Collection: Boredom
When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?Collection: Being Yourself
The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo GaleanoCollection: Thinking
Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses.Collection: Blood
You're alive because of love. You're made of love.Collection: Love
Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.Collection: Mean
But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.Collection: Cancer
Remember your natural affection for all of creation.Collection: Nature
BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Media
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.Collection: God
Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.Collection: Believe
Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.Collection: Change
I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul.Collection: Healing
Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.Collection: Loneliness
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.Collection: Mean
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?Collection: Bored
What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?Collection: Blessing
Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things.Collection: Beautiful
Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.Collection: Weed