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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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You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. 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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I'm here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I'm trapped here, but because I'd rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.
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For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
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To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
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You know who you are inside, but people outside see something different. You can choose to become the image, and let go of who you are, or continue as you are and feel phony when you play the image.
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
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Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!
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In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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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.
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We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.
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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
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It's not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.
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You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
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The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."
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Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.
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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to Love.
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What I have just heard is pure... listen!... radiance, that you took from cloud-linings and sunrises and distilled into light that I can hear! Do you know how good, how lovely that is, what you can make the piano do?
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It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.
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Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again.
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The music broke from the piano like clear cold water from a prophet-touched rock, pouring and splashing around us while her fingers leaped and spread, curled and stiffened and melted and flickered in magic pass and streaked lightning above the keyboard. Never before had she played for me... because we were lovers now, was she free to play...?
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My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
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We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!
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Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Richard Bach
Born:
June 23, 1936
(age 87)
Bio:
Richard David Bach is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, among others.
Known for:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
The bridge across forever (1984)
Messiah’s Handbook (2004)
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