Illusions

Just read (or reread, not sure) Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. What a waste of time! Sorry Mr. Richard Bach. After Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, all your other books, including A Bridge Across Forever, were dull and meaningless to me. It did not give me the emotional and spiritual high that Seagull once did -- when I was still in college.

My younger self might have read some portions of the book because the first few chapters seems vaguely familiar, but boring as it is, I might have dosed off after the first few pages.

But most of the quotes from the Messiah's Handbook (in Illusions) are profound:

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect.

You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

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 false messiah.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

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.

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.