Illusions book quotes
I just re-read a book that I read back in middle school and I find that only now can I truly grasp its concepts. Life is funny in that way. So I thought I would share them with you guys. Whoever reads my silly blogs. At least this one might help someone feel better. The book is called Illusions by Richard Bach. It's about a man who flies planes for a living and he meets a mysterious man. After becoming friends, he finds out that this mystery man turns out to be a messiah. The messiah begins to teach him all about the illusions that are in this life and how he too could become a messiah if only he learned to open his eyes to the illusions around him. It's a short book and pretty interesting. Like I said I read it in middle school. It isn't a hard book or full of religious metaphors. Mostly it's about illusions in our life. Anyways. The passages that spoke to me were as follows
Of course you can quit! Quit anything you want, if you change your mind about doing it. You can quit breathing if you want to.... Better that than keeping the job and hating it." I find that so often in life we are paralyzed with fear- Fear of choosing wrong. Because of this, we hardly ever make any choice. But what if we did choose and we find out that we made the wrong choice? Well then you can always stop-quit- and do something else. Better to quit than to keep going and be miserable.
"If you want freedom and joy so much, can't you see that it's not anywhere outside of you? Say you have it, and you have it! Act as if it is yours, and it is!" A good friend of mine calls this "fake it till you make it" Act like you are a certain way and somewhere along the line you become that. If you want to be happy than act happy and somehow you will be happy.
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah." Live YOUR life in the manner that you want to live. Living someone else's is impossible and fake.
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
"Don't turn away from possible futures before you are 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." Again, it is never to late to choose a different path.
"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."
"Don't be impatient. We're all on our way to learning more." Don't be impatient by your current situation. Odds are, there is still another lesson for you to learn before you can move on.
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." Good things take hard work but they are often worth it. Every wish and every desire you have, you are also given the power to make it come true. But sometimes our desire makes us blind to the solution.
"You don't do anything. You see it done already, and it is.....Do you think that maybe if you say impossible over and over again a thousand times that suddenly hard things will come easy for you?... Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." We are always told that things are impossible so we forget to question why it is impossible. But what if it was possible?
"The thing that puzzles you is an accepted saying that happens to be impossible. The phrase is hurt somebody else. We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. It is us who decides. Nobody else...That's his decision to be hurt, that's his choice. What you do about it is your decision, your choice....It goes one and on, choices, choices...Listen, it's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do." We can only let people hurt us. We give them the power to hurt us. It is our choice. WE can choose to be hurt or we can choose to move on- choose to live, to love, to be happy. WE have the power over our lives. Blaming others for our pain ignores our own power of choosing happiness. If we blame others for our pain than we don't have to blame our self for choosing the be unhappy.
"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." WOW. All of the good- all of the bad were drawn to me because I choose them. The reason they are in my life-their purpose- is up to me to figure out.
"Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn as well." I've always believed that every person in your life serves a purpose. There is a reason that they have come into your life. They might leave again if you have learned all that you could from them. It is the naturally cycle of life.
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, then it isn't." I've had 3 friends die in 4 years and sometimes I wonder why them when they were so young. But maybe their mission in life was finished. Maybe that is why god called them home so young.
"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."
That is it. I hope that you guys have learned something new or interesting. Really I'm just rambling now. Pick up the book if you want. I recommend it
Of course you can quit! Quit anything you want, if you change your mind about doing it. You can quit breathing if you want to.... Better that than keeping the job and hating it." I find that so often in life we are paralyzed with fear- Fear of choosing wrong. Because of this, we hardly ever make any choice. But what if we did choose and we find out that we made the wrong choice? Well then you can always stop-quit- and do something else. Better to quit than to keep going and be miserable.
"If you want freedom and joy so much, can't you see that it's not anywhere outside of you? Say you have it, and you have it! Act as if it is yours, and it is!" A good friend of mine calls this "fake it till you make it" Act like you are a certain way and somewhere along the line you become that. If you want to be happy than act happy and somehow you will be happy.
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah." Live YOUR life in the manner that you want to live. Living someone else's is impossible and fake.
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
"Don't turn away from possible futures before you are 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." Again, it is never to late to choose a different path.
"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."
"Don't be impatient. We're all on our way to learning more." Don't be impatient by your current situation. Odds are, there is still another lesson for you to learn before you can move on.
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." Good things take hard work but they are often worth it. Every wish and every desire you have, you are also given the power to make it come true. But sometimes our desire makes us blind to the solution.
"You don't do anything. You see it done already, and it is.....Do you think that maybe if you say impossible over and over again a thousand times that suddenly hard things will come easy for you?... Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them." We are always told that things are impossible so we forget to question why it is impossible. But what if it was possible?
"The thing that puzzles you is an accepted saying that happens to be impossible. The phrase is hurt somebody else. We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. It is us who decides. Nobody else...That's his decision to be hurt, that's his choice. What you do about it is your decision, your choice....It goes one and on, choices, choices...Listen, it's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do." We can only let people hurt us. We give them the power to hurt us. It is our choice. WE can choose to be hurt or we can choose to move on- choose to live, to love, to be happy. WE have the power over our lives. Blaming others for our pain ignores our own power of choosing happiness. If we blame others for our pain than we don't have to blame our self for choosing the be unhappy.
"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." WOW. All of the good- all of the bad were drawn to me because I choose them. The reason they are in my life-their purpose- is up to me to figure out.
"Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn as well." I've always believed that every person in your life serves a purpose. There is a reason that they have come into your life. They might leave again if you have learned all that you could from them. It is the naturally cycle of life.
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, then it isn't." I've had 3 friends die in 4 years and sometimes I wonder why them when they were so young. But maybe their mission in life was finished. Maybe that is why god called them home so young.
"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."
That is it. I hope that you guys have learned something new or interesting. Really I'm just rambling now. Pick up the book if you want. I recommend it
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