Richard Bach Quotes

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.

I'm hard-pressed to say that anything I do in my comics is intentional. But that is a stupid thing to say.

Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

If design is the first signal of human intention.

Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

What comes to me unmistakably is what I carefully or carelessly invite.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.

Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.

As designers we are influenced both consciously and subconsciously by everything we see around ourselves. Still, we always must try to avoid anything that has been defined as the latest and greatest "trend" in design.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.