Cup of tea? Tea time with Tom Robbins

Teatime with Tom Robbins:

Human kind is about to enter the floral stage of its evolutionary development. (Jitterbug Perfume)

See, I think we have to ask ourselves - and this is corny in a way - what are we doing here. And I've become convinced, after a lifetime of asking that question, that we are here to enlarge our souls, light up our brains, and liberate our spirits. (Philosophy)

There are two kinds of people in this world; those who think there are two kinds of people and those who are smart enough to know better. (Still Life with Woodspecker)

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received. (Education)

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious and immature. (Humanity)

In the staircase of life, Art is the only stair, that doesn't creak. (Art)

If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in Love, act lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid - but don't go trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself. (Still Life with Woodspecker)

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. (Perspective)

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. (Perspective)

If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you, the Mystery. The one that can never be solved.
To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese.
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.
But 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.
More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.
(Esquire, October, 1993)

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[guitarandgraves]

too much sugar.

[MaxwellsDemon2000]

@guitarandgraves LOVE('d) Sugar, now I know that it's not good for my body ;-(

[daspaniel89]

dont know if its the tantalizing messages burning a hole off the screen and into my brain, the fantastigorical lycricies of gershwin swimming out of my speakers, the fact that youre drinking a luscious cup of turkish tea, or perhaps the fact that i just smoked a bowl of high grade marijuana, - most likely a potent combination of all the above - but i want to live in tom robbins brain for at least 5 years.

[MaxwellsDemon2000]

@daspaniel89 Yes I can sympathize with you :-) I know exactly what you mean!

Cheers

Max

[MsWeirditude]

i really loved it.

thank you :)

btw Turkish tea :)

[MaxwellsDemon2000]

yep, turkish tea is good and strong :)

[mrgoldiven]

YEah, too much sugar and too much boredom in this video. As Tom Robbins said, boredom and fear are major causes of evil in the world.

[AsiaSiva]

This book is referenced in the book

"I Fysche

II Fysche

Raw Fysche

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who will be interviewed Tuesday June 14 10amEST on SpirituallyRawDOTCOM

Thank you Tom Robbins for being so inspirational !!!!!!!!!!

[smokingpope1234]

Wow, you just combined three of my absolute favorites: Turkish Tea, Gershwin's Rhapsody, and Tom Robbins.

[yumaddah]

that music results in the destruction,

universal destruction

would it be

in the then NOW?

[PARHARIDOU]

@SgtBastard101 :D oh for God's sake ROFLZ!!!!

[jody8459]

I came across this whilst sipping tea...appropro