Illusions

jackspark · Illusions

Once again you people are right on it. I'm about 3/4 through and it's great!
Why is it that so many of the best books are small and quirky?

Anyone have a statement about this book?

Yes_But_Neigh

I do! I do!

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Who is the author?

alexwein

Richard Bach is the author, if it's the same book I'm thinking of. He also wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a very popular book during the 70s. I read both books many years ago.

But maybe this is a different book?

jackspark

Yes Alex that's the book I'm talkin about. I finished it this morning and am still digesting some of the pearls........ Lots of references to Tao

I loved "never judge a messiah by the size of his crowds"

whudson

jackspark

I think Deb or Erin or maybe both of them

They always have some good book to suggest!

bit

That's the book I learned how to vaporize clouds, how to manafest (sp?) and I think the only thing that isn't possible in that book that I know of is swimming in the earth or walking through walls. It's fiction, but it's all possible. I love the little quotes from the messiah guide book. I use one in my signiture here.
He wrote several books. They are all good. Wish he'd write more.
http://www.inner-growth.info/main_bach.htm

jackspark

Hubby is on his second read in less than 36 hours

When he is finished I'll go at it for my second time......

bit

Went a little crazy last night and ordered a few more of Richard's books. Illusions was my first book of his. I was sitting in my living room, and got this urge to hit the book store. I mean a big, giant push until I said, "okay, okay!" I got to the book store, was walking up and down the isles and I say, "ok, I came, so why and I here?" I was a little impatient, I guess. Right then, Illusions tipped and fell off the shelf at my feet. "oh."
Thanks for the motivation to take a look at what else Richard might have written since. Here are some quotes from some of his books.

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. ― Illusions
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You teach best what you most need to learn. ― Illusions

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished : If you're alive, it isn't. ― Illusions

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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. ― Illusions

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

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An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown. ― One

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We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory. ― One

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Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. ― One

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"The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy." ― The Bridge Across Forever

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"Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies." ― The Bridge Across Forever

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“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.” ― The Bridge Across Forever

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"The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise." ― The Bridge Across Forever

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"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." ― The Bridge Across Forever

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“That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.” ― The Bridge Across Forever

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"You either plan for what's ahead or you fight with what you've got: worry is a waste of time." ― Running From Safety

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“All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.” ― Running From Safety

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“Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.” ― Running From Safety

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“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.” ― Running From Safety

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“Good and evil are not what our parents told us, not what our church tells us, or our country, not what anybody tells us! All of us decide good and evil for ourselves, automatically, by choosing what we want to do!” ― Running From Safety

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"With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it." ― Running From Safety

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"Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner." ― Running From Safety

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"Avoid problems and you'll never be the one who overcame them." ― Running From Safety

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"...not being known doesn't stop truth from being true" ― There's No Such Place As Far Away

jackspark

Deb, could you list the Bach books you got? Thanks for the quotes.....amazing and insightful.

bit

The Last War: Detective Fe...
Messiah's Handbook: Remind...
Nothing by Chance
Curious Lives: Adventures fro
Running from Safety

jackspark

Good God Girl, you're as bad as I am

Toddling off to Amazon......

whudson

Oh Man...Guess I got to shopping...again

Tammy Sorenson

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My favorite book site of all!

whudson

I went there to order the books and it is only for US