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
way findings finished
I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it’s not finished yet.
goodbye fun safety
It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.
flying gulls matter
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
numbers profound people
To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people.
spiritual lying thinking
I think our learning lies along the path of whatever it is we love.
judging messages messengers
Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.
stories jonathan-livingston-seagull love-story
That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.
life fear listening
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
team skills discipline
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.
inspiring courage imagine
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
wall real grief
The only thing that's real in any universe [is] that brilliant fire of Love that burns to the exclusion of everything else. As we recognize the presence of Love, we break through the wall of grief that would try to convince us that the dear soul with whom we have learned and loved so much no longer exists, or that she or he cannot speak with us. There is no wall that Love cannot vaporize. We may believe in death, Love doesn't.
spiritual real self
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
jewels color light
You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.
winning order belief
In order to win, you must expect to win.