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. Richard Bach More Quotes by Richard Bach More Quotes From Richard Bach There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet. Richard Bach important-events forget-everything gone Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy." Richard Bach mail important book When we're born on this planet, we're taught to believe that what we see is real. But as we grow in understanding, we recognize first that we've been hypnotized by that reaching, and second that it's within our power to de-hypnotize ourselves. And as we do that, the illusion appears to change, to come in harmony with what we most value. If we most value love, we will begin to see more and more love and joy and adventure-creative expressions of life shimmering everywhere around us. Richard Bach real adventure believe Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as soon as we've said the best we can say, there's nothing else about us that's remotely interesting to anybody else, and we go back behind the walls. We can be intimate in books, we can be intimate in talks, but then we need time to be alone. Richard Bach wall book interesting Some religions believe that there's a hierarchy, that you don't have a connection, but you must go through the shaman or the priest or whoever the religious leader is. And that's what surprises me, that some people who find a huge value in these kinds of systems also seem to enjoy ILLUSIONS. I can't figure it out. Richard Bach religious believe people Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so. Richard Bach perspective hiking long To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance. Richard Bach safety ignorance The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one. Richard Bach different writing world What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us. Richard Bach fascination stage watches We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought. Richard Bach our-thoughts our-lives When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say. Richard Bach tunnels writing character We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love! Richard Bach odds sea fun Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying. Richard Bach flying sorrow grief Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned. Richard Bach achievement nature spiritual How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently. Richard Bach deer breathing fall Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but... Richard Bach this-life real fiction 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. Richard Bach generosity selfish soul One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old. Richard Bach brave discovery giving If we believe that we're separated from someone, though they stand in the same room with us, we're separated. If we believe that we're together, if we believe that they are with us, if we listen through our inner senses, there's a chance we'll hear. Richard Bach together believe rooms I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have forgotten who we are, we have forgotten we are one with that source of all life - absolutely indestructible, perfect, joyful. The source of our joy is when we remember that. Richard Bach perfect joy thinking
