Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

by Richard Bach

“I wanted to say, 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!

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

“Negative attachments, Richard. 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

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

We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else.

“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.”