Richard Bach Quotes

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.

If you can imagine something, it will be.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

Our abilities are limited only by our perceptions.

What you believe yourself to be, you are.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection of your inner world. If things aren't going well in your outer life, it's because things aren't going well in your inner life. It's that simple.

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with finding ourselves: learning to quiet the clamor in our minds and the voices of everyone around us and move toward what feels right – toward the things we know, for reasons we can’t explain, that we’re mean to do, the things that makes us feel alive.

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.

All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you have been the source of everything to begin with. Everything you've been looking for has been within yourself you have been that. You then begin to surrender everything to yourself. You surrender all of your thoughts, all of your feelings, you surrender all of your desires, all of your wants to the Self. You pull it in all inwardly.

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

You have to believe the magic to see it.