When I reach a point of ouchyness I am lucky that certain things come into my life to help me get back to The Real Me. I have always believed that human beings are here to be happy. The lot of mankind is not to suffer. So when I’m suffering I tend to get caught up in a loop. But like I said lucky for me: I get what I need when I need it.
As I’ve been packing up my library in readiness to move, I get to visit with books that I haven’t read in awhile. I have actually been searching for one particular book: Stranger in a Strange Land; but have yet to find it. (most likely I’ve already packed it up!) Lately I’ve been in a turmoil about many things link with my up and coming move and I have reached out to get help sorting it out. But until my next therapy appointment, I have to figure out how to get through each day.
And wow! As I was helping Teh Kitteh find her favorite toy I unearthed Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach. You may know him by his singular book Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Both books are here on my books list too.
So I sat down and decided to read this book. I got to remember that so much of this book was very Buddhist and I also got to remember how much I enjoyed testing my mind in trying to grasp the principles. And since I have last read this book, I have encountered The Secret (also listed here) and I was struck by how similar many of the concepts in this book were to those in The Secret.
Like I have listed the Earthseed phrases, I will list here the phrases that are discovered in this book’s Messiah’s Handbook Reminders for the Advanced Soul.
While you may not get the full power of these phrases, they fit together with the storyline of the book, for those that have read this book will understand why I still want to share them :)
I have bolded the phrases that rang like a morning bell in my soul
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The
simplest questions
are the most profound.
Where were you born? Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about
these once in awhile, and
watch your answers
change.
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You
teach best
what you most need
to learn.
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Live
never to be
ashamed if anything you do
or say is published around the world -
even if
what is published
is not true.
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Your friends
will know you better
in the first minute you meet
than
your acquaintences
will know you in
a thousand
years.
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The
best way
to avoid responsibility
is to say, “I’ve got
responsibilities.”
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You are led
through your lifetime
by the inner learning creature,
the playful spirited 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.
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There is
no such thing as a problem
without a gift for you
in its hands.
You seek problems
because you need
their gifts.
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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.
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Argue
for your limitations,
and sure enough,
they’re
yours.
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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.
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A cloud does not know
why it moves in just such a
direction and at such
a speed,
It feels 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.
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You are
never given a wish
without also being given the
power to make it true.
You may
have to work for it,
however.
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The world
is your excercise-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.
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The
original sin is to
limit the Is.
Don’t.
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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.
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Your
conscience is
the measure of the
honesty of your selfishness
Listen to it
carefully.
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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.
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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.
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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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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 you belief in injustice
and tragedy.
What the caterpillar
calls the end of the world,
the master calls a
butterfly.
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Everything
in this book
may be
wrong.
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