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
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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 real teacher is myself in disguise.
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You teach best what you most need to learn.
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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.
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Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world - even if what is published is not true.
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We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?
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''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''
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One must learn to fall, if one would fly.
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Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing:The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
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What are we trying to practice every day? If our friendship depends onthings like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time,we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we haveleft is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in themiddle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other onceor twice?
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When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you'll find something solid to stand on Or you'll be taught how to fly!
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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.
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You are not little because you are already grown, playing among your lifetimes as do we all, for the fun of living.