If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.
Tom RobbinsBut the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
Tom RobbinsIndividualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.
Tom RobbinsThose people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
Tom RobbinsChoice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.
Tom Robbins