‘You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them. “You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Here are some of my favourite quotes from the book: For me, this is one of those books that change lives. It will be a strange one, but one you will never forget it. But Bach is bringing those lessons in a very frivolous, light way. “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah” by Richard Bach is full of life lessons. That’s why I wanted to share my best reads with you. It is the everlasting way we connect with each other. And we know we are on the right path.īooks re magical. And somehow, this book appears in our life.

Sometimes… we thought we are the only one! And then we read someone else’s story, and we realise we weren’t.Īnd sometimes, we are ready for a change. Sometimes we already knew, we just needed to hear it from someone else. Sometimes we enter the world of the unknown, the story that someone wanted to tell. But there are some books that change lives. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.’īut they cried the more, ‘Saviour!’ all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Saviour.’ There are billions of books out there.Īs there are billions of books, there are also billions of us. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.Īnd the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, ‘See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!’ And the one carried in the current said, ‘I am no more Messiah than you.

The other creatures laughed and said, ‘Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you shall die quicker than boredom!’īut the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. The current of the river swept silently over them all – young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self.Įach creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks at the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth.īut one creature said at last, ‘I am tired of clinging. ‘Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.

The adventures of a reluctant messiah