Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

by Richard Bach

I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won’t even reach for a pencil. But once in a while there’s a great dynamite-burst of flying glass and brick and splinters through the front wall and somebody stalks over the rubble, seizes me by the throat and gently says, “I will not let you go until you set me, in words, on paper.” That’s how I met Illusion

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

Learn what the magician knows and it’s not magic anymore.”

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

You saw the film tonight partly because I wanted to see it. Lots of people choose lifetimes because they enjoy doing things together.

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.”

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

“We are all free to do what we want to do, as long as we don’t hurt somebody else,”

I can’t find lasting friends when I’m an unlasting one myself.”

“Well, Richard, we’re magnets, aren’t we? Not magnets. We’re iron, wrapped in copper wire, and whenever we want to magnetize ourselves we can. Pour our inner voltage through the wire, we can attract whatever we want to attract. A magnet is not anxious about how it works. It is itself, and by its nature it draws some things and leaves others untouched.” I ate a potato chip and frowned at him. “You left out one thing. How do I do it?” “You don’t do anything. Cosmic law, remember? Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.”

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

You don’t tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds, remember.”