Richard Bach
Richard Bach
Richard David Bach is an American writer. Bach is widely known as the author of some hugely popular 1970s best-sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagulland Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. Bach has authored numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including Oneand Out of My Mind...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 June 1936
CountryUnited States of America
crazy remember-where-you-came laughing
Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.
pay cosmic bother
It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.
inspirational spiritual want
You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.
mother children father
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
ideas perfection limits
There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.
inspiration consciousness hell
Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.
loneliness independence alliances
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.
fun creativity ideas
It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.
night dragons years
We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.
lonely horse airplane
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers...
block thinking attachment
Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you." “Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser beams, vacuum cleaner a block high...” “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 it.
ignorance fishing skills
Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!
choices statistics way
The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
intuition statistics agree
We know nothing until intuition agrees.