The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. … - Tom Robbins

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For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end. . . such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.

Tom Robbins

The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.

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We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

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When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

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Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

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