Richard Bach Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

  Richard Bach

  Motivational, Depression, Believe

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

• Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

  Richard Bach

  Encouraging, Wisdom, Encouragement

  "With a Conscience — ‘It’s Not You. It’s Me.’" by Claudia King, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

• The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are they divine . . . ahead of their times . . . Fletcher says, Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anybody who wanted to discover it; that's got nothing to do with time. We're ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way most gulls fly. Poor Fletch. Don't you believe what your eyes are telling you? All they show is limitations. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

  Richard Bach

  Fashion, Time, Believe

• There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are."

  Richard Bach

  Understanding, World, Way

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

• The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.

  Richard Bach

  People, Understanding, Levels

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

• The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable.

  Richard Bach

  Airplane, Sky, Joy

  Richard Bach (2012). “Nothing By Chance”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

• Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

  Richard Bach

  Education, Thinking, Giving

• Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening.

  Richard Bach

  Beautiful, Character, Choices

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

• An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.

  Richard Bach

  Airplane, Joy, Understanding

  Richard Bach (2012). “Nothing By Chance”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

• There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

• Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

  Richard Bach

  Reality, Understanding, Reason

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

• When we're born on this planet, we're taught to believe that what we see is real. But as we grow in understanding, we recognize first that we've been hypnotized by that reaching, and second that it's within our power to de-hypnotize ourselves. And as we do that, the illusion appears to change, to come in harmony with what we most value. If we most value love, we will begin to see more and more love and joy and adventure-creative expressions of life shimmering everywhere around us.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Believe, Adventure

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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