AND
REMINDERS
FOR THE ADVANCED SOUL
Richard Bach
Perspective
- use it or lose it. If you turned to
this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not
reality. Think about that. Remember
where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got
yourself into in the first place.
You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it
more if you keep the facts in mind.
Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not
generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.
Learning
is finding out what you already know.
Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as
you. You are all learners, doers,
teachers.
Your
only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else
is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
The
simplest questions are the most profound.
Where is your home? Where are
you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while, and watch
your answers change.
You
teach best what you most need to learn.
Live
never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published around the world -
even if what is published is not true.
Your
friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your
acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
The
best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got
responsibilities."
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.
You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or
a different past.
There
is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their
gifts
The
bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in
each other's life. Rarely do members of
one family grow up under the same roof.
Argue
for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
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.
A
cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a
speed. It feel an impulsion...this is
the place to go now. But the sky knows
the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when
you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.
You
are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The
world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, although you can express
reality there if you wish. You are also
free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages.
The
original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
If
you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that
fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and
heartbeats.
Your
conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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.
The
truth you speak has no past and no future.
It is, and that's all it needs to be.
Here
is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
In
order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Don't
be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is
necessary before you can meet again.
And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who
are friends.
The
mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and
tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the
end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Everything
in this book may be wrong.
From: “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”
Keith and
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