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Richard Bach Quotes - Page 12

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Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

Hypocrisy, Tree, World

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.

Letting Go, Boredom, Currents

"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

Twenties, Hours, Minutes

I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.

Life, Believe, Thinking

You teach best that which you need most to learn.

Needs, Teach

What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it What if I could meet a super-advanced ... what if a Siddhartha or a Jesus came into our time, with power over the illusions of the world because he knew the reality behind them And what if I could meet him in person, if he were flying a biplane, for instance, and landed in the same meadow with me.

Time, Jesus, Reality

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.4, Delta

There were times in my life when I said, "Oh God, I'm making a terrible, terrible mistake here." And on another level it looked as if that's exactly what I had done. All of us can look back across our lives and see what we thought was a disaster was actually a blessing - from a long-term perspective, it was a blessing. With practice, we can shorten the length of time between "what a dumb mistake I've made" and "what a brilliant choice that was.

Mistake, Blessing, Practice

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

Perfection, Gulls, Sake

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you know exists with your consent and for your own good reasons; protect that your purpose and mission is to shine love in your own playful way, in the moments you decide will be most dramatic.

Wall, Winning, Shining

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Quality, Crowds, Size

Richard Bach (2013). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.143, Random House

Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.

Body, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Break

Richard Bach (2013). “A sirály”, p.76, Édesvíz Kiadó

Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.

Writing, Airplane, Giving

Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.94, Dell

Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

Pain, Reality, Lakes

Richard Bach (2013). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.143, Random House

Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that's not marked by boundaries, it's not a map. We're not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there's a reminder that are a lot worse things, and a lot greater rewards.

Wall, Order, Office

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Needs, Problem, Small Gifts

1977 Illusions.

It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.

Pay, Cosmic, Bother

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Light, Jewels, Color

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!

Fighting, Ideas, Gone

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

The only thing that's real in any universe [is] that brilliant fire of Love that burns to the exclusion of everything else. As we recognize the presence of Love, we break through the wall of grief that would try to convince us that the dear soul with whom we have learned and loved so much no longer exists, or that she or he cannot speak with us. There is no wall that Love cannot vaporize. We may believe in death, Love doesn't.

Wall, Real, Grief

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.

Teacher, Thinking, People

Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.

Law Of Attraction, Matter, Imagine

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

Adventurous Life, Long, Realizing

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

Spiritual, Nature, Achievement

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

Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.41, Delta

Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Character, Thinking, People

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