Richard Bach: Doing

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

Life , Personality

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”

Richard Bach

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

Happy , Problem , Dependency , Happiness

“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, and teachers.”

Richard Bach

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Learning , Teachers

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

Richard Bach

Source: 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

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Books , World , Exercises , Reality

“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 awhile, and watch your answers change.”

Richard Bach

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

Home , Question , Thinking , Change

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

Richard Bach

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

World

“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!”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Life , Idea , Fight

“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

page 119
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Life , Thinking

“26. And [the Messiah] said unto them, "If a man told God that he wanted most of all to help the suffering world, no matter the price to himself, and God answered and told him what he must do, should the man do as he is told?"27. "Of course, Master!" cried the many. "It should be pleasure for him to suffer the tortures of hell itself, should God ask it!"28. "No matter what those tortures, no matter how difficult the task?"29. "Honor to be hanged, glory to be nailed to a tree and burned, if so be that God has asked," said they.30. "And what would you do," the Master said unto the multitude, "if God spoke directly to your face and said, 'I COMMAND THAT YOU BE HAPPY IN THE WORLD, AS LONG AS YOU LIVE.' What would you do then?"31. And the multitude was silent, not a voice, not a sound was heard upon the hillsides, across the valleys where they stood.”

Richard Bach

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

God , Pleasure , World , Hell