Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and … - Tom Robbins

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My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

Tom Robbins

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

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

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Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.

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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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Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep. '

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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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My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

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Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

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