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
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
friends-or-friendship miles separate truly
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
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Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.
anywhere begin fast fly imagination knowing
''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''
misunderstood devil jonathan-livingston-seagull
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
fake-people truth integrity
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.
soulmate two together
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
opposites views perfect
We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we know others who take an opposite view and say, "I can do anything I choose to do. It is in my power to change the world." And those are the ones who most often change the world.
spiritual teacher real
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we 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 and teachers. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
and-love testing adventuring
Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE
uplifting
Don't fear change. It's always for the best.
spiritual thinking play
There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play.
spiritual fun thinking
So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for learning; we're here for remembering who we are, and who we are, are expressions of life so absolutely linked with the life that is, always was, always will be.
perfection heaven swamps
If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.