Rob Brezsny
Muse lover, spirit punk, play activist
- Eckhart Tolle: "Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it. Seeking is the antithesis of happiness." He's wrong This book is right: "How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People" It says the number one trait of happy people is a serious determination to be happy
- Do you vow to conspire with me to perpetrate lucid dreams and intimate empathy and revolutionary fucks and plain old everyday miracles that will overthrow the psychopathic misogynist plutocratic militarism that desecrates the ecosphere?
- MAGA politicians say undocumented immigrants are “rapists” and “criminals,” but actual crime data point the other way Across the best studies, undocumented immigrants consistently show lower crime rates than native‑born U.S. citizens, for both violent and non‑violent offenses. tinyurl.com/LowCrime
- Getting near zero responses to this post, which is close to my heart, suggests that posting on BlueSky is not a good use of my time!
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- Cynics and defeatists share the same story as authoritarians do: that nothing is worth trying, the conclusion is foregone, hope is naïve, and attempts to resist are too small or futile. Don’t listen to them. Don't give up A better world is possible We will win. We must —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- There have been at least 27 shootings by ICE agents since January 20, 2025, of which 8 have resulted in deaths. tinyurl.com/ICEviolence
- The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly. —Caroline Myss, Spiritual Madness: The Necessity of Meeting God in Darkness
- "HopePunk" refers to the tender ferocity with which we perpetrate peace, love, & understanding. It's a battle cry inspiring us to infuse our rage for justice with compassion. It activates our nuanced and ingenious soul power to deal with the cruelty that's loose in the world.
- I aspire to develop the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful and the most useful. Perfect success is never an option.
- As always, this week’s Free Will Astrology horoscopes are designed to honor and foster your lust for life and joie de vivre. tinyurl.com/YourLustForL... .
- Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it? —Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich .
- The people I trust most are always tenderly wrestling & negotiating with their own shadows, making preemptive strikes on their personal share of the world's evil, fighting the good fight to keep from spewing their darkness on the rest of us. I aspire to be like that, which is why I kick my own ass
- To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. —Emily Dickinson
- Your mantra: “I disappear my fear. I resurrect my audacity.” Say it or sing it. Let it flow after you wake each morning. Or make it the last sound on your lips as you drop off to sleep. Have fun with it: “I disappear my fear. I resurrect my audacity. I disappear my fear. I resurrect my audacity.”
- Psychologist Carl Rogers said: When I look at a sunset, I don't say, "Soften the orange in the right corner; put more purple in the clouds." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe. An equally satisfying experience is to just fully appreciate a person like I appreciate a sunset.
- The fishermen 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. —Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano
- You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people. --Vivienne Westwood .
- I invite you to say these things: "I love everything about me" "I love my uncanny beauty and my bewildering pain" "I love my hungry soul and my wounded longing" "I love my flaws, my fears, and my scary frontiers" "I love my surprising power, my sweet mysteries, and my unknown freedom"
- “Fighting the dissociation of feeling from thinking is still our priority, as working artists.“ – Jorie Graham
- Write a letter to the person you'll be in a year. Tell this Future You you've taken a vow to accomplish three feats by then. Say why these feats are important. Describe them. Brainstorm about what you'll do to make them happen. Draw pictures or make collages that capture your excitement about them.
- When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below and the below like the above, and when you make the male like the female and female like the male, then you will enter the Kingdom. Jesus, Gnostic Gospel of Thomas
- A wild streak of wicked luck is about to visit you, killing off your meek visions and making space for braver fantasies.
- The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is--it must be something you cannot possibly do. —Henry Moore
- I accept with good humor that what I’ve learned in the past may not be a perfectly reliable guide to understand the fresh phenomena in front of me. I’m suspicious of my biases, even rational & benevolent ones. I open my wild heart as I strip away interpretations that my conditioning might impose.
- May you get what you want and still want it.
- It's impossible for anyone to prove they are not enlightened. —Carlos Summers
- your intuition trusted your joy replenished your purpose remembered your silence respected your tenderness protected your patience rewarded your boundaries honored your truth embodied your discernment sharpened your timing blessed your offerings accepted
- Presence is the one rebellion that can’t be monetized.
- I am not excited by the idea that our world is made up of 90 percent ugly things and ugly places, while things and places endowed with beauty are rare and difficult to find. My opinion is that there is no ugly object or ugly person in this world. Anything is potentially fascinating. Jean Dubuffet
- Ishtar Howell writes: Pushing for a single payer healthcare system in the US is one of the greatest acts of love & service an American could engage in. The increases in health & economic prosperity & the decrease in sleepless nights & needless suffering will be astronomical & felt far outside the US
- I invite you to entertain an improbable quest: a heroic task that provokes deep thoughts & noble passions . . . an extravagant dream that's farfetched but not entirely insane . . . a goal that stretches your possibilities & opens your mind . . . a wild hope whose pursuit makes you smarter & stronger
- There is a limitless range of awareness for which we now have no words. Awareness can expand beyond range of your ego, self, familiar identity, beyond everything you've learned, beyond your notions of space and time, beyond the differences that separate people from each other. —Walter Evans-Wentz
- The Hebrew word "dayenu" means "it would have been enough." It's from a song that lists the gifts God gave, saying after each: dayenu, it would have been enough. What if you embraced that? Maybe what you have—this body, these relationships, this weird beautiful broken moment—is already enough.
- “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” . ― Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light
- Maybe you periodically need bouts of lawless sacred eternal ecstasy or screaming sweaty flagrant bliss or blasphemously reverent waggling rapture. Not all the time, but sometimes. .
- "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out." —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- You don't have to be a highly evolved paragon of enlightenment in order to ease suffering and bestow blessings. - Caroline Myss
- All our beliefs and suspicions and theories about the way the world works are gambles. We're betting our lives that they have some match with the real reality. Even if we say we have no beliefs, suspicions, and theories about the way the world works—that is in itself a belief, suspicion, and theory.
- We dream of healing outbreaks of curiosity, voyages of discovery that no one can hate, renegade democracies too holy for history to quash, giddy spiritual upheavals, and revolutions in the theory and practice of delight. We proclaim our unpredictable destiny, our lavish conquest of stupid doom.
- If your path to so-called spiritual "enlightenment" or "growth" or "evolution" doesn't lead you to have more of a capacity to witness and acknowledge the suffering of your fellow humans, then it's not enlightenment, growth or evolution; it's "BYPASS." —Andrew Strowbridge
