Richard Bach Quotes

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn't be here in the physical world.

I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

We grow to heaven. We don't go to heaven.

As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have called virtue will automatically flow from your being, from your actions. But they have been doing just vice versa: first change the acts... It is as if you are in a dark house, and you are stumbling over furniture and over things, and you are told that unless you stop stumbling, light is not possible.

You learn from everything.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

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

Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

Everything is a learning experience.

This life is a process of learning.

Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.

You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he who has found the way once, always returns to this world with an internal maturity that enables him to continue his work.

You can't a put a value on experience and going through things.

Every day is a learning day.

Every experience you can get adds to you; it really adds to the mental side of things, too.