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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
We teach best what we most need to learn.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
if you argue for your limitations they are yours
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
The world is a dream, you say, and it’s lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky.” “No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you." “Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser beams, vacuum cleaner a block high...” “Negative attachments, Richard. If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are,and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that's all right. You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds, remember.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is...? ...ourselves.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
The image is a dream. The beauty is real.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Everything above may be wrong!
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them,
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
You gave your life to become you are right now. Was it worth it?
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
A person gets used to being alone, but break it just for a day and you have to get used to it again, all over from the beginning.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Are you telling me that even though it’s changing every second, the sky is always a perfect sky?
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
In order to live free and happily,    you must sacrifice       boredom.                    It is not always an easy                       sacrifice
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Tikrąją tavo šeimą sieja ne kraujo ryšys, o pagarba ir džiaugsmas, kuriuos randate vienas kito gyvenime. Vienos šeimos nariai retai išauga po tuo pačiu stogu.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Mine's a free life, but it does get lonely sometimes.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
You are led through your lifetime    by the inner learning creature,       the playful spiritual being          that is your real self.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
OK.… A blue feather.” He looked at me blankly. “Richard? A blue feather?
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Learning/ is finding out/ what you already know./ Doing is demonstrating that/ you know it./ Teach is reminding others/ that they known just as well as you. Your only/ obligation in any life time/ is to be true to yourself. The simplest questions/ are the most profound./ Where were you born? Where is your home?/ Where are you going?/ What are you doing?/ Think about these/ once in a while, and/ watch your answers/ change.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
The    best way       to avoid responsibility is to say, “I’ve got    responsibilities.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
I wanted to say, for the love of God, if you want freedom, can't you see it's not anywhere outside of you? Say you have it, and you have it! Act as if it is your's, and it is! Richard, what is so damned hard about that? But they didn't hear, most of them. Miracles - like going to auto races to see the crashes, they came to see miracles. First it's frustrating and then after a while it just gets dull. I have no idea how the other messiahs could stand it
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
It’s OK if the world is destroyed,” he said. “There are a thousand million other worlds for us to create and choose from. As long as people want planets, there will be planets to live on.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Argue for your limitations,    and sure enough,          they’re       yours.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Family is not necessarily made of blood, but of those you meet along the way.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
There was a lot I didn’t understand about messiahs.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
You    teach best       what you most need              to learn.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
You are    never given a wish without also being given the       power to make it true.                            You may                   have to work for it,                     however
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Prisimeni kosminį dėsnį? Toks tokį traukia. Tiesiog būk koks esi: ramus, šviesus ir giedras. Kai leidžiame sušvisti visai savo esybei, kai kiekvieną minutę klausiame savęs, ar iš tikro norime taip elgtis ir darome tai tik atsakę sau "Taip", tuomet savaime atstumiame nuo savęs tuos, kurie nieko iš mūsų negali išmokti, ir pritraukiame ne tik gebančius mokytis iš mūsų, bet ir tuos, iš kurių patys turime ką perimti.
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Your friends    will know you better in the first minute you meet    than       your acquaintances          will know you in             a thousand                years.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” ―
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Everything in this book may be wrong
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
There is no such thing as a problem without a girlfriend for you In its hands You seek problems Because you need their gifts
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
always free            to change your mind and                choose a different future, or                  a different                      past.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
There is    no such thing as a problem       without a gift for you              in its hands.       You seek problems     because you need       their gifts.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought, for instance.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
...we're magnets...we're iron, wrapped in copper wire, and whenever we want to magnetize ourselves, we can,..we can attract whatever we want to attract.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
I get enough of crowds even when they’re happy... if they’re scared they’re either going to crucify somebody or worship him
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
I allow the world to live as it chooses, and I allow me to live as I choose.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Here is    a test to find whether your mission on earth          is finished:                         If you’re alive,                            it isn’t.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Richard, don’t forget what you did today. It is easy to forget our times of knowing, to think they’ve been dreams or old miracles, one time. Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Vardığın yer orası değil. Onun çok ötesindesin. Ama geldiğinde inandığın yer orası ve bunda sakınca yok. Seni doğru okuyorum değil mi, sevgili ölümlü? Her zaman içinde bulunan, sana uçma fantezini yaşatan şu mavi tüylü kanatların sahibi olduğunun farkına yeni vardın. Bir mil yüksekliğindeki bir uçurumun kenarında duruyorsun, güven duyarak öne doğru eğiliyorsun, kanatlar açılıyor, denge durumundan çıkarken o konuma havada geleceğini umuyorsun. Öyle mi?
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed. It feels an impulsion … this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Don’t be       dismayed at good-byes.    A farewell is necessary before you can meet          again.                  And meeting                  again, after moments or                        lifetimes, is certain for                        those who are                        friends.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Per gyvenimą tave veda tavyje esanti, ištroškusi mokymosi, žaisminga dvasinė būtybė, kuri ir yra tavo asmenybės esmė. Nenusigręžk nuo jokios galimos ateities prieš tai neįsitikinęs, kad iš jos nėra ko išmokti. Tu visuomet gali laisvai apsispręsti. Gali persigalvoti ir pasirinkti kitokią ateitį arba kitokią praeitį.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
You don’t do anything. Cosmic law, remember? Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Is there a rule that a messiah can't write what he thinks is true, the things that have been fun for him, that work for him? And then maybe if people don't like what he says, instead of shooting him they can burn his words, hit the ashes with a stick? And if they do like it, they can read the words another time, or write them on a regrigerator door, or play with whatever ideas make sense to them? Is there something wrong with writing?
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Cuando me siento inspirado y feliz, los versos son infinitos, porque entonces la rima no es importante.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Límitate a desplegar tu personalidad, serena, transparente y luminosa. Cuando irradiamos lo que somos, preguntándonos a cada instante si lo que hacemos es lo que deseamos hacer y haciéndolo solo cuando la respuesta es afirmativa, nuestra actitud rechaza automáticamente a quienes nada tienen que aprender de lo que somos y atrae a quienes sí tienen algo que aprender, que son los mismos de quienes nosotros a la vez aprendemos.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Devi semplicemente essere quello che sei: calmo, limpido e luminoso. Automaticamente, mentre risplendiamo quali siamo, domandandoci ad ogni momento: è questo che voglio fare davvero?, e facendolo soltanto quando rispondiamo sì, automaticamente questo allontana coloro i quali non hanno niente da imparare da quello che siamo e attrae quelli che hanno da imparare e dai quali inoltre abbiamo da imparare.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Il legame che unisce la tua vera famiglia non è quello del sangue, ma quello del rispetto e della gioia. Di rado gli appartenenti a una famiglia crescono sotto lo stesso tetto.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Non esiste nulla che sia un problema senza un dono per te nelle mani. Tu cerchi problemi perché hai bisogno dei loro doni.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
       is finding out        what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that      you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.    You are all learners,      doers, teachers.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
are    never given a wish without also being given the       power to make it true.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
for your limitations,    and sure enough,          they’re       yours.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe. We cannot die, we cannot hurt ourselves any more than illusions on the screen can be hurt. But we can believe we’re hurt, in whatever agonizing detail we want. We can believe we’re victims, killed and killing, shuddered around by good luck and bad luck.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less- advanced life-forms, and they’ll call you crazy.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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How about I allow the world to live as it chooses, and I allow me to live as I choose.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
We are all. Free. To do. What- ever. We want. To do.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
He was going to suck my blood!” “Which is what we do to anyone when we say we’ll be hurt if they don’t live our way.
Richard Bach (Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah)
we magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought, for instance — if that is true, then somehow I have brought myself to this moment for a reason, and so have you.
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