Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language. Richard Bach More Quotes by Richard Bach More Quotes From Richard Bach You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing. Richard Bach songgivingyears 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-eventsforget-everythinggone 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 mailimportantbook 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 realadventurebelieve 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 wallbookinteresting 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 religiousbelievepeople 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 perspectivehikinglong To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance. Richard Bach safetyignorance The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one. Richard Bach differentwritingworld What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us. Richard Bach fascinationstagewatches We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought. Richard Bach our-thoughtsour-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 tunnelswritingcharacter 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 oddsseafun Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying. Richard Bach flyingsorrowgrief Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned. Richard Bach achievementnaturespiritual How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently. Richard Bach deerbreathingfall Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but... Richard Bach this-liferealfiction 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 generosityselfishsoul 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 bravediscoverygiving 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 togetherbelieverooms
