A radiant bundle of exuberant riddles.


You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles. You slipped into this dimension as a shimmering burst of spiral hallelujahs. You blasted into this realm as a lush explosion of ecstatic gratitude. And it is your birthright to fulfill those promises.

I'm not pandering to your egotism by telling you these things. When I say, "Be yourself," I don't mean you should be the self that wants to win every game and use up every resource and stand alone at the end of time on top of a Mt. Everest-sized pile of pretty garbage.

When I say, "Be yourself," I mean the self that says "Thank you!" to the wild irises and the windy rain and the people who grow your food. I mean the rebel creator who's longing to make the whole universe your home and sanctuary. I mean the dissident bodhisattva who's joyfully struggling to germinate the seeds of divine love that are packed inside every moment.



Rob Brezsny

When I say, "Be yourself," I mean the spiritual freedom fighter who's scrambling and finagling and conspiring to relieve your fellow messiahs from their suffering and shower them with rowdy blessings.

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Image: Wassily Kandinsky

All Dogs Go to Heaven.

Over the Rainbow Bridge?


When I first painted my classic All Dogs Go to Heaven people often called it the Rainbow Bridge which was a name of a poem I hadn't read. This painting is titled All Dogs Go to Heaven #4 which I nicknamed "Over the Rainbow Bridge" http://jimwarren.com

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." 
- William Blake

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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
- W. Somerset Maugham


Image: Dick Jemison, http://www.dickjemison.com/