Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

by Richard Bach

‘There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from.

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! Richard, what is so damned hard about that?

He was dying of his need to say what he knew, and nobody cared enough to listen.

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

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours

“We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe. We cannot die, we cannot hurt ourselves any more than illusions on the screen can be hurt. But we can believe we’re hurt, in whatever agonizing detail we want. We can believe we’re victims, killed and killing, shuddered around by good luck and bad luck.

Lots of people choose lifetimes because they enjoy doing things together.

A mother doesn’t care what part her child plays in his games; one day bad-guy, next day good-guy. The Is doesn’t even know about our illusions and games. It only knows Itself, and us in its likeness, perfect and finished.

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.

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

Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.

“Do you think that maybe if you say impossible over and over again a thousand times that suddenly hard things will come easy for you?

“Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them,

“He was going to suck my blood!” “Which is what we do to anyone when we tell them we’ll be hurt if they don’t live our way.

Where your thinking is, there is your experience;

If you want to be with what you’re magnetizing, you have to put yourself in the picture, too.

“How about I allow the world to live as it chooses, and I allow me to live as I choose.

I know what I know and I talk what I talk! And if that’s wrong then that’s just too bad.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn

“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.