Richard Bach Quotes

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

It's weird, the evolution of a person. You understand yourself, you understand your surroundings. Then, when you understand who came before you, once you understand that about yourself and the energy that you came to this planet with, you understand more about yourself.

the spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls. But eventually we learn, and our journey continues in another direction.

Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

I learn by going where I have to go.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

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.

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

The only journey is the one within.

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

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

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

I feel like as you blossom more, you become more mature, and I'm definitely excited for whatever life has to throw at me, and knowing me, I'm definitely going to be sharing it all.

I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

There is no other teacher but your own soul.

According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.

Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs.