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

  Rob Brezsny

  God, Mountain, Pilots

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.284, Frog Books

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• The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter. And we believe that if you habitually expose yourself to toxic stories and music, you could wind up living in the wrong universe, where it's impossible to become the gorgeous genius you were born to be. That's why we implore you to nourish yourself with delicious, nutritious tales and tunes that inspire you to exercise your willpower for your highest good.

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  Music, Believe, Exercise

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• Only you can prevent the genocide of the imagination.

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  Creativity, Imagination, Genocide

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.10, Frog Books

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• I will never again cast a curse on myself.

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  Curse, Casts

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.253, Frog Books

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• Your drive to produce hard-edged opinions stoked by hostility is likely a sign that you've been brainwashed by the pedestrian influences of pop nihilism.

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  Nihilism, Opinion, Influence

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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

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  Judging, Addiction, Hatred

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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• You're alive because of love. You're made of love.

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  Love, Love You, Alive

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.3, Frog Books

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Nature, People

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• Remember your natural affection for all of creation.

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  Nature, Affection, Remember

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.168, Frog Books

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• The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

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  Boredom, Bores, Commandments

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.11, Frog Books

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• The Sun, each second, transforms four million tons of itself into light, giving itself over to become energy that we, with every meal, partake of. For four million years, humans have been feasting on the Sun’s energy stored in the form of wheat or reindeer.
  Brian Swimme

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  Light, Years, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.47, Frog Books

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• When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?

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  Being Yourself, Mean, Self

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.8, Frog Books

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• Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.

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  Change, Sweet, Scoffing

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.9, Frog Books

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• 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

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  Thinking, Doctors, Feelings

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.180, Frog Books

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• Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses.

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  Blood, Vitality, Red

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.63, Frog Books

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• Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.

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  Mean, Grace, Mojo

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• But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

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  Cancer, News Stories, Tv Shows

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.61, Frog Books

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• BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

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  Book, Reading, Pleasure

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.267, Frog Books

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• Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil.

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  Believe, Devil, Belief

  Rob Brezsny (2013). “The Televisionary Oracle”, p.214, North Atlantic Books

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

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  Healing, Soul, Paganism

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• Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things.

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  Beautiful, Beautiful Things, Hawaiians

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.90, Frog Books

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• 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.

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  God, Acting, Wow

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.267, Frog Books

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• Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

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  Weed, Nature, Kissing

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• Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?

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  Bored, Shrines, Sentimental

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• 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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  Mean, Majority, Emotion

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.80, Frog Books

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