Top 50 Rob Brezsny Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It’s the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It’s a mode of training your senses and intellect so you’re able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.”

— Rob Brezsny

2. “We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.”

— Rob Brezsny

3. “Do you realize you can actually listen a person’s soul into existence? Your fervent interest in the inner life of those you care for can awaken their dormant powers. The teacher Richard Moss says ‘The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.’ Offer this gift.”

— Rob Brezsny

4. “Love enmeshes you in your partner’s unique set of karmic complications, so make sure you’re very interested in his or her problems. Love is a laboratory where you can uncover secrets about yourself that have previously been hidden, so be ravenously curious.”

— Rob Brezsny

5. “The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.”

— Rob Brezsny

6. “Somewhere there’s a treasure that has no value to anyone but you, and a secret that’s meaningless to everyone except you, and a frontier that harbors a revelation only you would know how to exploit. Why not go in search of those things?”

— Rob Brezsny

7. “Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence, shed your pretensions, and master the art of ingenious love.”

— Rob Brezsny

8. “HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.”

— Rob Brezsny

9. “Life always delivers the creative energy you need to change into the new thing you must become.”

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10. “I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul.”

— Rob Brezsny

11. “Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.”

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12. “God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.”

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13. “Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with blessings.”

— Rob Brezsny

14. “Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.”

— Rob Brezsny

15. “You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality.”

— Rob Brezsny

16. “What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?”

— Rob Brezsny

17. “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.”

— Rob Brezsny

18. “Proclaim the only truth you can be totally sure of: “I don’t know.””

— Rob Brezsny

19. “The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us.”

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20. “The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.”

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21. “In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.”

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22. “Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?”

— Rob Brezsny

23. “I’m allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.”

— Rob Brezsny

24. “In the future, judges will send criminals to holy spots where reverence-provoking beauty will overwhelm their addiction to hatred.”

— Rob Brezsny

25. “Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.”

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26. “To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you’re smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness.”

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27. “Factual information alone isn’t sufficient to guide you through life’s labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should therefore be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life.”

— Rob Brezsny

28. “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.”

— Rob Brezsny

29. “Break open the forbidden happiness.”

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30. “All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.”

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31. “Somewhere in the world there is a person who could ask you the precise question you need to hear in order to catalyze the next phase of your evolution. Do what’s necessary to run into that person.”

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32. “Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.”

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33. “On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss...”

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34. “I will never again cast a curse on myself.”

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35. “Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a fearless imagination to peer into the maw of happiness.”

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36. “You’re alive because of love. You’re made of love.”

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37. “Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.”

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38. “Remember your natural affection for all of creation.”

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39. “Don’t save your enormous creativity for “something better.” Give it to this.”

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40. “Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics...”

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41. “If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like “cell mate.””

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42. “We’re searching for the answers so we can destroy them and dream up better questions.”

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43. “May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years...”

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44. “Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.”

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45. “When they say “Be yourself,” which self do they mean?”

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46. “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 Galeano.”

— Rob Brezsny

47. “Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure you also enjoy the full measure of fun that comes with such mastery. Glide through life as if all of creation is yearning to honor and entertain you.”

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50. “BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.”

— Rob Brezsny