Richard Bach Quotes

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us with all the answers that we need to heal our deepest wounds, to transcend our limitations, to overcome our obstacles or challenges, and to see where our soul is longing to go.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'

Real human purpose in life is to realise self. I am on the path to spirituality, to realise my inner self.