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
aside instantly perfection sake travel
Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly
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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.
living loved perfection reach touch
The most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which we most loved to do
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The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.
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If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.
perfection sake gulls
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.
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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.
numbers perfection limits
Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.
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Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
fighting ideas perfection
Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome...
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Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
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Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
ashamed living published
Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world - even if what is published is not true.