Tony Vigorito > Quotes

“He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly north of demented.”
― Tony Vigorito

“Language is a piss poor attempt at telepathy is what it is. We try to put our thoughts into each other's heads through language...But half the intended meaning gets lost in the transmission, and the other half is filtered through existing assumptions. Everything is a half truth!

That's the whole problem! You can't understand me through the smog of your presumptions and prejudices. Multiply that six billion times and you'll begin to understand the desperation of our global situation”
― Tony Vigorito, Just A Couple Of Days: The Cult Classic American Novel Where a Virus Destroys Language

“Anyway, the trick is simply this: No matter what happens, keep your heart open. Wide open. The heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the arrogance of ego would presume that it requires protection. To open your heart is to reduce your ego, and this is the only magic that is ever required to experience the naked truth.”
― Tony Vigorito, Nine Kinds Of Naked: A Wildly Entertaining Surreal Comedy – Funny Satire Exploring Chaos Theory

“We're like snowflakes. Each of us is unique, but it's still pretty hard to tell us apart.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just A Couple Of Days: The Cult Classic American Novel Where a Virus Destroys Language

“Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it wants to do. But you are afraid of what others think, others who are just as afraid of what you think, and so you pussyfoot along the perimeter of the free-will zone, wilting like a wallflower.”
― Tony Vigorito

“So, whenever you find yourself putting forth great effort without success, you're trying to force something that won't fit under the circumstances. That's a destructive waste of time. And if that isn't enough to keep in mind, your techniques must always be allowed to evolve and change, in relationships, in life, in science, in society. Otherwise you stagnate, and you won't get anywhere in the long run... You know what the philosopher Aldous Huxley said? He said 'Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just A Couple Of Days: The Cult Classic American Novel Where a Virus Destroys Language

“The fall of humanity was the fall from the actual to the symbolic. Language abstracts us from the real world; keeping us from direct, intuitive perception. Words, like the ego, are merely guides. Don’t mistake them for the real thing. Pull aside the filthy curtains of the social. Language makes an enigma of simple existence; it obscures the true nature of reality and of your self.”
― Tony Vigorito

“He was unmistakably sipping iced tea with the hatters and the hares.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just A Couple Of Days: The Cult Classic American Novel Where a Virus Destroys Language

“Why are we here? Well, we're peaking up the skirt of the ineffible now, and the answer is hidden by the poetic panties of language”
― Tony Vigorito

“Things take care of themselves  as long as you trust and don't try to control too much. Things will happen. Things tend to occur. Why resist what's inevitable? That's like swimming against the current, salmon notwithstanding. Go with the flow, you know? Glide with the glow, man. It's easier.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just A Couple Of Days: The Cult Classic American Novel Where a Virus Destroys Language

“Thus was their relationship born on the swift kiss of a pun. Neither suspected what the other would become to each of them. Like phrases running wild in the Logos, they knew neither who nor by what mechanism nor for what reason they were whistled for (if they understood that they were whistled for at all). They were simply compelled to come together. Sophia was the question, and Blip was the answer. And vice versa.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just A Couple Of Days: The Cult Classic American Novel Where a Virus Destroys Language

“So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?”
― Tony Vigorito, Nine Kinds Of Naked: A Wildly Entertaining Surreal Comedy – Funny Satire Exploring Chaos Theory

“How can you spend your days just damning people? Man, where do you think we are right now? Not just right here, but here, alive on this planet? This is hell, Brother, look around. It doesn’t have to be, but we make it so. I can even prove it. All life on this planet is carbon-based, right? Do you know what the atomic number of carbon is? Six. That means six electrons, six neutrons, and six protons, 666, the mark of the beast is the illusion of matter! Who was cast out of paradise? Lucifer, right? Well, guess who else was kicked out? We were, Adam and Eve, eating the forbidden fruit, the Tree of Knowledge, driven from the garden like varmints. We’re the beast. DNA is the coil of the serpent. Duh. Hell is separation from the Source, man. Dig?” “Right on,” Manny spoke up. “I can dig that.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just a Couple of Days

“I get it,” Merlin leaned forward. “The magician simply redirects attention to one of these other fifty-five thousand realities, thereby distracting others from the reality they’re manipulating”
― Tony Vigorito, Love and Other Pranks

“Boredom is the coward’s reaction to staring at a wall.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just a Couple of Days

“Magic,” Lila replied after Merlin inquired how she planned to unveil Ivan. “The human brain receives over eleven million bits of information per second, but the conscious mind can only interpret about two hundred bits per second.” Lila tapped his forehead. “The reality you experience, then—the world of your conscious self—is a vast reduction, approximately fifty-five thousand times less than what your senses are actually receiving, which is really another way of saying that in any given moment there are fifty-five thousand other realities you might just as easily inhabit.”
― Tony Vigorito, Love and Other Pranks

“He had been vaguely pinning his redemption on the upcoming eclipse, hoping for something somehow transformative, or at least something greater than a wow and brow-furrowed appreciation of celestial mechanics.”
― Tony Vigorito, Love and Other Pranks

“The only good leader is a reluctant one.”
― Tony Vigorito

“But sense or nonsense, that which motivates the plane of language cannot be resisted any more than that which motivates the plane of life.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just a Couple of Days

“But first, these past months in my hermitage I’ve figured out a few things concerning matters metaphysical. As I began to explain earlier, loneliness is nothingness. And as already mentioned, the Hebrew word for God, Yahweh, is simply a form of that most fundamental verb, to be. God is what is, understand, but God cannot be without being perceived. God is all that is, and yet God is nothing unless God can look upon God. God is one, but God is not lonely. Loneliness is a contradiction of Creation. Creation must be, but God did not create the universe. God is the universe. God is not the Creator. God is Creation. There is no difference. There was never anything but Creation, and there will never be anything but Creation. Creation requires nothing but itself for its own existence.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just a Couple of Days

“Change is the only constant in the universe. It’ll happen. Enjoy the ride in the meantime, be nice, and be prepared. When it does happen, rejoice!”
― Tony Vigorito

“My naked eyes see the naked truth,” Diablo began. “And the naked truth is that life is an adventure in the imagination of God, Providence at play, and to the extent that we release control, we experience grace. It is not a coincidence that the more you accept the flow of life, the more that life will flow through you. And that the minute you close your heart, the instant you presume to protect yourself from hurt or heartache, or the moment you try to control the insecurity of life with routine and structure, you have already lost exactly that which you are trying to protect. Your heart goes hard, your life goes stagnant, and Spirit will burn you with a thousand sufferings until you sit in your sacred fire and wake up to the naked truth that you are not in control of your life. This is the truth that is so fretfully foreign to common sense. You are a temporarily stable matrix of energetic probabilities, a spiritual synapse in the mind of God, and that’s all. This is no more your life than it is mine. It’s an experience to behold, but never to hold.” Diablo paused, seeking summation, feeling foolish in his nakedness, another hairy monkey squawking all the answers. “Anyway, the trick is simply this: No matter what happens, keep your heart open. Wide open. The heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the arrogance of ego would presume that it requires protection. To open your heart is to reduce your ego, and this is the only magic that is ever required to experience the naked truth.”
― Tony Vigorito, Nine Kinds of Naked

“Worlds without awareness soon end in all fairness.”
― Tony Vigorito

“It is as if he nurses a tapeworm at the core of his soul that leaves him in perpetual need of more attention.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just A Couple Of Days: The Cult Classic American Novel Where a Virus Destroys Language

“We’re all born in love, one love, but we pound it out of each other from birth, and every last lurch of our low-vibration dreary drama is just spastic desperation trying to find its way back to love.”
― Tony Vigorito, Nine Kinds of Naked

“The major difference between children and adults is that adults have forgotten that they’re just pretending.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just a Couple of Days

“As it turns out, the final frontier of freedom is the freedom to choose one’s attitude, and in the face of one’s own mortality, the only conceivable choice is joy.”
― Tony Vigorito, Nine Kinds of Naked

“Human consciousness is a big game of make-believe. It’s nothing more than mutually fanciful speculation, and the self, consequently, is nothing more than a ridiculous illusion at best and a destructive delusion at worst. We can’t know each other’s perspective, we only pretend we can. That’s why people walk around so terrified of each other most of the time.”
― Tony Vigorito

“Just be your Self. Don’t put your ego where it doesn’t belong. Your ego is just a tool to assist you in life. Don’t mistake it for who you are. The ego is a distracting backseat driver who thinks it knows everything. Keep it in its proper place. Tape its mouth shut, so you can better enjoy the ride instead of trying to control it.”
― Tony Vigorito

“Offering advice to an angry person is like congratulating a sleeping insomniac with a slap on the back.”
― Tony Vigorito