Reluctant Messiah Quotes

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.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

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.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

We teach best what we most need to learn.

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.

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.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

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.

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -- even if what is published is not true.

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?

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.

Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.

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.

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.

The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.

Happiness is a choice. It is not always an easy one.

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.

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.

I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

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.

There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

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.

When you're young you really think you're angry for reasons and causes. As you get older, you realize you might just be angry.

The image is a dream. The beauty is real.

Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them,

Everything above may be wrong!

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

You gave your life to become you are right now. Was it worth it?

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.

Are you telling me that even though it’s changing every second, the sky is always a perfect sky?

The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?

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

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.

Mine's a free life, but it does get lonely sometimes.

In order to live free and happily,    you must sacrifice       boredom.                    It is not always an easy                       sacrifice

You are led through your lifetime    by the inner learning creature,       the playful spiritual being          that is your real self.

OK.… A blue feather.” He looked at me blankly. “Richard? A blue feather?

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.

The    best way       to avoid responsibility is to say, “I’ve got    responsibilities.

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

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.

Argue for your limitations,    and sure enough,          they’re       yours.

Family is not necessarily made of blood, but of those you meet along the way.

There was a lot I didn’t understand about messiahs.

You    teach best       what you most need              to learn.

You are    never given a wish without also being given the       power to make it true.                            You may                   have to work for it,                     however

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.

The last day i was home i took the rental car up old 14 behind the Sandia Mountains. as i drove north toward Santa Fe past Madrid I rolled the window down halfway and let the cold, brisk, February air come into the car. I smelled the pinon trees and the damp earth. The Gray came over me. My life flashed through my heart in one deep rush of feeling. When I made the turn around the mountain to the west, the mesas and valleys spread out before me under the orange and gold horizon. The sun hit me like a wave that flooded out the past and dissolved any idea of the future, and I felt okay and whole for about twenty minutes.

Your friends    will know you better in the first minute you meet    than       your acquaintances          will know you in             a thousand                years.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.” ―

Everything in this book may be wrong

There is no such thing as a problem without a girlfriend for you In its hands You seek problems Because you need their gifts

always free            to change your mind and                choose a different future, or                  a different                      past.

There is    no such thing as a problem       without a gift for you              in its hands.       You seek problems     because you need       their gifts.

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought, for instance.

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.

...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.

I get enough of crowds even when they’re happy... if they’re scared they’re either going to crucify somebody or worship him

I allow the world to live as it chooses, and I allow me to live as I choose.

Here is    a test to find whether your mission on earth          is finished:                         If you’re alive,                            it isn’t.

We are all. Free. To do. What- ever. We want. To do.

There was part of me listening that didn’t think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

As my Advent celebration approaches its end, I remember how merciful the Lord has been. My eyes move reluctantly from the manger. But if I emulate the wise men, who followed the star that led them to Jesus, my view will move across the poignant scenes of Christ’s mortal life, be stopped short by wonder and gratitude as I consider the incomparable gift of His atonement, crucifixion, and resurrection, and then lift to the promised dawn of His second coming. As I consider His promised return, I might ask myself, “When that day comes, will I kneel and joyfully exclaim that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Light of the World, my Redeemer, Deliverer, and Savior, or will it be truth that compels me to confess His name?” Today, as my celebration by candlelight of His first advent draws to a close, I resolve to let Him prevail in my life so that my adoration of Him in the brilliant light of His second advent will be spontaneous, heartfelt, and unrestrained.

Christ meant "Messiah," which means the Anointed, the king, the political/military hero. Politics is power, our only means of transcending the problems of this world. "Jesus, when are you at last going to move from spiritual blather to something important—like politics?" Jesus responded by telling his followers that it was not for them to know the times for such things. Jesus seems somewhat evasive, reluctant to come right out and say, "I'm the Messiah you have been expecting," probably because he knew that their messianic expectations were not for someone like him. At this point, honesty compels me to say that, if you are one of those people with great love for the government or reverent respect for the military that props up government, you will find Jesus a jolt to your sensibilities. The modern state—with its flags, pronouncements, parades, propaganda, public works projects, and assorted patriotic paraphernalia—does not mesh well with Jesus. Patriotism, while perhaps a virtue, has never been regarded as a specifically Christian virtue.

was dismissing the Torah as irrelevant and insisting that, for the approaching Last Judgment, what was needed for salvation was not obedience to the Law but faith. If Jesus had stuck to the provinces no harm would have come to him. By arriving at Jerusalem with a following, and teaching openly, he invited arrest and trial, particularly in view of his attitude to the Temple – and it was on this that his enemies concentrated.90 False teachers were normally banished to a remote district. But Jesus, by his behaviour at his trial, made himself liable to far more serious punishment. Chapter 17 of Deuteronomy, especially verses 8 to 12, appears to state that, in matters of legal and religious controversy, a full inquiry should be conducted and a majority verdict reached, and if any of those involved refuses to accept the decision, he shall be put to death. In a people as argumentative and strong-minded as the Jews, living under the rule of law, this provision, known as the offence of the ‘rebellious elder’, was considered essential to hold society together. Jesus was a learned man; that was why Judas, just before his arrest, called him ‘rabbi’. Hence, when brought before the Sanhedrin – or whatever court it was – he appeared as a rebellious elder; and by refusing to plead, he put himself in contempt of court and so convicted himself of the crime by his silence. No doubt it was the Temple priests and the Shammaite Pharisees, as well as the Sadducees, who felt most menaced by Jesus’ doctrine and wanted him put to death in accordance with scripture. But Jesus could not have been guilty of the crime, at any rate as it was later defined by Maimonides in his Judaic code. In any case it was not clear that the Jews had the right to carry out the death sentence. To dispose of these doubts, Jesus was sent to the Roman procurator Pilate as a state criminal. There was no evidence against him at all on this charge, other than the supposition that men claiming to be the Messiah sooner or later rose in rebellion – Messiah-claimants were usually packed off to the Roman authorities if they became troublesome enough. So Pilate was reluctant to convict but did so for political reasons. Hence Jesus was not stoned to death under Jewish law, but crucified by Rome.91 The circumstances attending Jesus’ trial or trials appear to be irregular, as described in the New Testament gospels.92 But then we possess little information about other trials at this time, and all seem irregular.

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Cuando me siento inspirado y feliz, los versos son infinitos, porque entonces la rima no es importante.

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.

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.

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.

Non esiste nulla che sia un problema senza un dono per te nelle mani. Tu cerchi problemi perché hai bisogno dei loro doni.

       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.

are    never given a wish without also being given the       power to make it true.