Quotes from Richard Bach

In every disaster, in every blessing, ask, Why me?       There's a reason, of course, there's an answer.

How many of us count fictional characters, or those we've never met, among our closest friends? My hand's up.

I want to go back to the Flock, of course. I've barely begun with the new group!

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer! ---Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is," he said, "you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." The trick, according to Chiang, was for Jonathan to stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body that had a forty-two-inch wingspan and performance that could be plotted on a chart. The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.

You're a perfect expression of perfect Love, perfect Life, here and now.

Soon as you realize you're immortal," he said, "declare the power of Love even when it seems invisible, you'll go far beyond the illusions of space and time. In all history, the one power you never lose is your power of letting go of space and time, the joy of dying that is no wicked thing, it comes in love, to everyone.

Finally I came to think that may be everything we need to know,ever,about anything,is already within us,waiting till we call for it.

The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way. It is the law.

The worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves. we live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we are afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we will lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.

OK.… A blue feather." He looked at me blankly. "Richard? A blue feather?

Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the albatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers, mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

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....

YaÅŸamak için ne çok neden var! bal?kç? teknelerinin etraf?nda o rutin, s?k?c? dönüp dolaÅŸmadan baÅŸka nedenler de var yaÅŸamak için. cehaletimizi k?rabiliriz, becerilerimizi, yeteneklerimizi ve zekam?z? kullanarak kendimizi bulabilir, kendimiz olabiliriz. en önemlisi, özgür olabiliriz, uçmay? öÄŸrenebiliriz

Family is not necessarily made of blood, but of those you meet along the way.

You're a master when things go well, you're a victim when they go out of control.

You    teach best       what you most need              to learn.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock?

Oh, the different consciousness between the grieving and the dying! One sees midnight, the other joyful sunrise. One sees death, the other Life as never before.

WE MUST HONOR our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down.  It's their duty to ridicule us, it's their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different!  And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card games philosophical: Ah, well, we can't toast 'em all . . .

This disaster is the chance you prayed for, your wish come true.

You wait a lifetime to meet Someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that Someone all along, has been you.

a thousand times: "You're a perfect expression of perfect Love, here and now. You will have a perfect