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“Of course you can quit! Quit anything you want, if you change your mind about doing it. You can quit breathing, if you want to.”
A good messiah hates nothing and is free to walk any path he wants to walk. Well, that’s true for everybody, of course.
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.”
it didn’t feel like work. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
‘There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from.’
“I’ll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.”
for the love of God, if you want freedom and joy so much, can’t you see it’s not anywhere outside of you? Say you have it, and you have it! Act as if it’s yours, and it is!
Messiah’s Handbook, Reminders for the Advanced Soul.
Perspective — Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you’re forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.
Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place.
Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less- advanced life-forms, and they’ll call you crazy.
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, teachers.
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.
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 a while, and watch your answers change.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world — even if what is published is not true.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
I noticed something strange about the book. “The pages don’t have numbers on them, Don.” “No,” he said. “You just open it and whatever you need most is there.” “A magic book!” “No. You can do it with any book. You can do it with an old newspaper, if you read carefully enough. Haven’t you done that, hold some problem in your mind, then open any book handy and see what it tells you?” “No.” “Well, try it sometime.”
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them. You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
“This world? And everything in it? Illusions, Richard! Every bit of it illusions! Do you understand that?”
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
they didn’t know that it was impossible for what was happening to happen.
If that’s all illusion, Mister Shimoda, then what is it that is real? And if this life is illusion, why do we live it at all?
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.
“Some of us start learning these things subconsciously. Our waking mind won’t accept it, so we do our miracles in our sleep.”
He was dying of his need to say what he knew, and nobody cared enough to listen.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.
this life can be interesting or dull or whatever we choose to make it.
I have never been able to figure out why we’re here in the first place.
what is wrong with writing it down on paper? Is there a rule that a messiah can’t write what he thinks is true, the things that have been fun for him, that work for him? And then maybe if people don’t like what he says, instead of shooting him they can burn his words, hit the ashes with a stick? And if they do like it, they can read the words another time, or write them on a refrigerator door, or play with whatever ideas make sense to them? Is there something wrong with writing? But maybe I’m just dumb.” “In a book?” “Why not?” “Do you know how much work …?
