Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
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Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Context: Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Context: Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: if you argue for your limitations they are yours
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Richard Bach Quotes about love
Source: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 21
Richard Bach Quotes about learning
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Context: 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.
“We teach best what we most need to learn.”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: You teach best what you most need to learn.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
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“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach Quotes
“Nothing happens by chance, my friend… No such thing as luck.”
Nothing by Chance: A Gypsy Pilot's Adventures in Modern America (1969)
Context: Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, we may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.”
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“Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.”
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
Context: If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
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“But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.”
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”
Variant: You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 48
Context: The things we own, the places we live, the events of our lives: empty settings. How easy to chase after settings, and forget diamonds! The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
“You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die.”
There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)
Context: You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Context: 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 lifeforms, and they'll call you crazy.
“An old maxim says that a professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit”
A Gift of Wings (1974)
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“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Source: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 15
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy.”
The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
Source: Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all”
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.”
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.”
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
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