Crazy Wisdom

 
“Crazy wisdom is, of course, the opposite of conventional wisdom. It is wisdom that deliberately swims against the current in order to avoid being swept along in the numbing wake of bourgeois compromise; wisdom that flouts taboos in order to undermine their power; wisdom that evolves when one, while refusing to avert one’s gaze from the sorrows and injustices of the world, insists on joy in spite of everything; wisdom that embraces risk and eschews security; wisdom that turns the tables on neurosis by lampooning it; the wisdom of those who neither seek authority nor willingly submit to it.” Tom Robbins (Excerpt from In Defiance of Gravity, Harper’s, September 2004)

This article should be BuVu Holy Writ. It’s long, but it’s tasty. Click on the image below for the whole enchilada: