My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
Tom RobbinsLife is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.
Tom RobbinsThere are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom RobbinsOur purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
Tom RobbinsBut say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide eschatological whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure.
Tom Robbins