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Quotes from Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah — Richard Bach

born 1936 United States

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

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

I am no more messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

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

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

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

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced lifeforms, and they'll call you crazy.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

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.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

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

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

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

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

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)

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

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

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

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

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)

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.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

The original sin is to limit the Is. —Don't.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

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.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Bach (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.