Comments for Richard Bach http://richardbach.com The Official Site Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:27:05 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Suicide Sin? by Amelie http://richardbach.com/suicide-sin/#comment-1309 Amelie Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:27:05 +0000 http://richardbach.com/?p=2578#comment-1309 Richard, I have often thought about that myself: Why didn't He run away? I never quite understood that. But your post got me into thinking again. With what I know today, different I guess from what I will know tomorrow, I think He knew death was an Illusion. I think all of us decide on our own deaths when in Spirit, we just don't remember. I´ve always been terrified of death. Stupid, I know. Couldn't help it. So I prayed for help to overcome that fear, and in response a serious disease confronted me with my fear of death. I agree with almost everything that has been said here, I believe we are not and cannot be responsible for the decisions or feelings of others. And others just have the power over my feelings that I alone decide to give them. We all commit suicide. Whether using a rope, or an illness or an accident. We are limitless beings, immortal projections of The Being. When we die, we kill ourselves out of ignorance, till the day we truly learn we cannot die. I think that is the difference with Jesus. Although He hesitated at some point, I believe He knew he was not dying. He didn't commit suicide because he overcame the Illusion of death. That is the difference with the other cases of suicide I know. They do so because they cannot endure this life any more, or out of curiosity to see what's next. But I believe Jesus did it because He truly felt God was holding His hand, and life and death as we know them were not real. If you know death is not so, how can you commit suicide at all? If you do commit suicide thinking you escape life, and if life is eternal and if we are meant to learn anything at all, then I can see why some call it a sin (not myself, I do not believe in the concept of "sin", I just think of lessons learnt or not learnt), probably they mean they did not learn that you cannot escape Life, the "punishment" might be facing again a difficult life from which one feels the need to escape until one learns that within us lies all we need to have a happy life. Richard, I have often thought about that myself: Why didn’t He run away? I never quite understood that. But your post got me into thinking again. With what I know today, different I guess from what I will know tomorrow, I think He knew death was an Illusion. I think all of us decide on our own deaths when in Spirit, we just don’t remember. I´ve always been terrified of death. Stupid, I know. Couldn’t help it. So I prayed for help to overcome that fear, and in response a serious disease confronted me with my fear of death. I agree with almost everything that has been said here, I believe we are not and cannot be responsible for the decisions or feelings of others. And others just have the power over my feelings that I alone decide to give them. We all commit suicide. Whether using a rope, or an illness or an accident. We are limitless beings, immortal projections of The Being. When we die, we kill ourselves out of ignorance, till the day we truly learn we cannot die. I think that is the difference with Jesus. Although He hesitated at some point, I believe He knew he was not dying. He didn’t commit suicide because he overcame the Illusion of death. That is the difference with the other cases of suicide I know. They do so because they cannot endure this life any more, or out of curiosity to see what’s next. But I believe Jesus did it because He truly felt God was holding His hand, and life and death as we know them were not real. If you know death is not so, how can you commit suicide at all? If you do commit suicide thinking you escape life, and if life is eternal and if we are meant to learn anything at all, then I can see why some call it a sin (not myself, I do not believe in the concept of “sin”, I just think of lessons learnt or not learnt), probably they mean they did not learn that you cannot escape Life, the “punishment” might be facing again a difficult life from which one feels the need to escape until one learns that within us lies all we need to have a happy life.

]]> Comment on Ignominy by Amelie from Spain http://richardbach.com/ignominy/#comment-1308 Amelie from Spain Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:00:20 +0000 http://richardbach.com/?p=4408#comment-1308 Right. Ummm, the doormat. A dear friend of mine, wisest being I ever met, she says "everything is all right". I imagine what she would say to you, and the words that come to my mind are "accept it, and thank that situation for what it had to teach you". Thank you, I love that child that deliberately misspelt a word in exchange of love to learn that love comes only from within. I accept what I did in exchange for fake love, because that led me to learn that there is nothing I can do to get the acceptance and love of others. Love is my birthright. I deserve it because I exist. That child didn't know yet, but he was learning. Forgive yourself, RIchard, for he deserves your forgiveness. Our wings are made of Love on one side, and Forgiveness on the other. We are perfect in our imperfection. Right. Ummm, the doormat. A dear friend of mine, wisest being I ever met, she says “everything is all right”. I imagine what she would say to you, and the words that come to my mind are “accept it, and thank that situation for what it had to teach you”. Thank you, I love that child that deliberately misspelt a word in exchange of love to learn that love comes only from within. I accept what I did in exchange for fake love, because that led me to learn that there is nothing I can do to get the acceptance and love of others. Love is my birthright. I deserve it because I exist. That child didn’t know yet, but he was learning. Forgive yourself, RIchard, for he deserves your forgiveness. Our wings are made of Love on one side, and Forgiveness on the other. We are perfect in our imperfection.

]]> Comment on Rarely Asked Questions: What aircraft have you flown?” by vanish http://richardbach.com/a-visitor-asks-richard-what-aircraft-have-you-flown/#comment-1305 vanish Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:08:03 +0000 http://richardbach.com/?p=166#comment-1305 i dont know but some days back i wanted to comment on this topic but could not.... so I am back again ...am 24 a CPL flew c172 and seneca... and its been quite a long time since i have actually flown a cessna ...luckily have joined an airline just now ...320s.... but still here away from family, my beautiful dog....and my cessna... I do dream of flying freely above the the earth taing off vertically then accelerating .... and finally waking up accepting reality or is it the other way round.....\ i aspire to have my own aircraft very soon and fly with my father.... who is more keen on flying than me....Richard I am still trying to understand life as it is unfolding and uncovering new things everyday... and you have guided us to be mr unlimited in our everyday lives.....thanks for everything Just today my brother mailed me the pics of some pups of a stray dog whom we have been feeding for quite some time+ took her to vet a year back when her leg broke .... and now these puppies to whom my mother has given shelter have grown healthy chubby totally awesome.... Godspeed i dont know but some days back i wanted to comment on this topic but could not…. so I am back again …am 24 a CPL flew c172 and seneca… and its been quite a long time since i have actually flown a cessna …luckily have joined an airline just now …320s….

but still here away from family, my beautiful dog….and my cessna…
I do dream of flying freely above the the earth taing off vertically then accelerating …. and finally waking up accepting reality or is it the other way round…..\

i aspire to have my own aircraft very soon and fly with my father…. who is more keen on flying than me….Richard I am still trying to understand life as it is unfolding and uncovering new things everyday… and you have guided us to be mr unlimited in our everyday lives…..thanks for everything

Just today my brother mailed me the pics of some pups of a stray dog whom we have been feeding for quite some time+ took her to vet a year back when her leg broke …. and now these puppies to whom my mother has given shelter have grown healthy chubby totally awesome….

Godspeed

]]> Comment on Books I Read Again, Movies I Watch Over and Over: by Jeff http://richardbach.com/books-ive-loved-movies-i-think-are-terrific/#comment-1304 Jeff Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:36:07 +0000 http://richardbach.com/?p=376#comment-1304 Ah, Richard, no Ernie Gann on the list? 'Fate Is The Hunter' is still my favorite book. Though the book I most often recommend to others is Hayakawa's slim volume. Also of interest are the books we loved as children- I still hope to run across this one about a father and daughter taking a trip together in their Cessna floatplane. Landed in Lake Powell, I seem to remember. Loved that book as a kid, just can't remember the title. Ah, Richard, no Ernie Gann on the list? ‘Fate Is The Hunter’ is still my favorite book.
Though the book I most often recommend to others is Hayakawa’s slim volume.
Also of interest are the books we loved as children- I still hope to run across this one about a father and daughter taking a trip together in their Cessna floatplane. Landed in Lake Powell, I seem to remember. Loved that book as a kid, just can’t remember the title.

]]> Comment on Got Plans? by Amelie from Spain http://richardbach.com/got-plans/#comment-1303 Amelie from Spain Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:22:03 +0000 http://richardbach.com/?p=3205#comment-1303 Yes, I do sometimes "see" the pattern. Sometimes I sense that I do not have a choice, that the choice was made long before, and that I am only enacting what I decided to enact when I was Conscious, in Spirit. But at times I can't see it, and I wonder if it is all delusion. And then again I get a glimpse, but this time I "see" there are no choices at all, they all ARE, NOW, and there is no difference between the Higher Self, The Great Spirit, You or Me, or the Stone, or the Fall. It all IS at the same time, the NO time, and for a nanosecond I "understand" but then it goes again. Just the other day I "felt" You, Richard, had decided in Spirit to write what you wrote, and Me agreed to read Illusions when I was 12, so that I could "remember" what I knew, and hold on at those times when I feel lost, but I felt it wasn´t an agreement between You and Me, a whole lot of Others were there too. But they are not really others, we are One. Thank You, for keeping your part. Yes, I do sometimes “see” the pattern. Sometimes I sense that I do not have a choice, that the choice was made long before, and that I am only enacting what I decided to enact when I was Conscious, in Spirit. But at times I can’t see it, and I wonder if it is all delusion. And then again I get a glimpse, but this time I “see” there are no choices at all, they all ARE, NOW, and there is no difference between the Higher Self, The Great Spirit, You or Me, or the Stone, or the Fall. It all IS at the same time, the NO time, and for a nanosecond I “understand” but then it goes again. Just the other day I “felt” You, Richard, had decided in Spirit to write what you wrote, and Me agreed to read Illusions when I was 12, so that I could “remember” what I knew, and hold on at those times when I feel lost, but I felt it wasn´t an agreement between You and Me, a whole lot of Others were there too. But they are not really others, we are One. Thank You, for keeping your part.

]]> Comment on Suicide Sin? by Ken http://richardbach.com/suicide-sin/#comment-1301 Ken Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:01:39 +0000 http://richardbach.com/?p=2578#comment-1301 Is stepping in front of a bullet to save your daughter considered suicide? I call it making a logical decision. I have always been intrigued by Obi Wan Kenobi's capability to "disappear" himself at a time and place of his choosing. Fanciful Me says he moved on to a higher plane. Logical Me says, "Eh, who knows for sure? " Is stepping in front of a bullet to save your daughter considered suicide? I call it making a logical decision.

I have always been intrigued by Obi Wan Kenobi’s capability to “disappear” himself at a time and place of his choosing. Fanciful Me says he moved on to a higher plane. Logical Me says, “Eh, who knows for sure? “

]]> Comment on Books I Read Again, Movies I Watch Over and Over: by Now http://richardbach.com/books-ive-loved-movies-i-think-are-terrific/#comment-1300 Now Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:14:23 +0000 http://richardbach.com/?p=376#comment-1300 Thank you R, for this inspiration...pointing the direction to Gary Z... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-WXAmvZJJuY#! Aum Thank you R, for this inspiration…pointing the direction to Gary Z…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-WXAmvZJJuY#!

Aum

]]> Comment on Books I Read Again, Movies I Watch Over and Over: by Now http://richardbach.com/books-ive-loved-movies-i-think-are-terrific/#comment-1298 Now Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:43:41 +0000 http://richardbach.com/?p=376#comment-1298 hmmm... thank you for sharing this angle of your life R, as for me... Ghandi 10 Commandments (I broke all of them...hehehe and that's all relative:-) Avatar Star Wars (saw 1st movie that came out from the back seat of a hugh station wagon at the drive inn...and with a few people sitting in front seat kinda blocking my view, was pregnant with son when I saw Phantom Menace) Ganges K Pax Somewhere In Time (1st movie I saw with 1st husband) Princess Bride (husband bought me the book and movie) Lord of the Rings Matrix Star Trek (came into being the year I was born, so I literally grew up with it) Documentaries about Earth...Wind, Fire...etc, Species of many kinds from here and other realms What the Bleep Do We Know Wild Hogs It's a Wonderful Life Scrooge X-Men Veer Zara (saw both main actors live at a show) Rainman Pirates of the Caribbean Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (in my son's first few months of life, he would mostly go to sleep only to the soundtrack of this movie) Sound of Music (was present when it premiered in Trinidad, with two of it's actors) DiVinci Code Bulletproof Monk Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Harry Potter Last Samurai Mission Impossible Sherlock Holmes Four Feathers Young Victoria etc... Books ~ by: Dr.Wayne Dyer, Louis Hay Dr. Deepak Chopra Jim Pathfinder Eckhart Tolle Sri Sri Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji Carl Sagan Neale Donald Welsh ~various books written by Yogis, Sages, Scientists and Spiritual Masters from many different cultures etc..more and so on... ~~~ Aum hmmm…
thank you for sharing this angle of your life R,

as for me…

Ghandi

10 Commandments (I broke all of them…hehehe and that’s all relative:-)

Avatar

Star Wars (saw 1st movie that came out from the back seat of a hugh station wagon at the drive inn…and with a few people sitting in front seat kinda blocking my view, was pregnant with son when I saw Phantom Menace)

Ganges

K Pax

Somewhere In Time (1st movie I saw with 1st husband)

Princess Bride (husband bought me the book and movie)

Lord of the Rings

Matrix

Star Trek (came into being the year I was born, so I literally grew up with it)

Documentaries about Earth…Wind, Fire…etc, Species of many kinds from here and other realms

What the Bleep Do We Know

Wild Hogs

It’s a Wonderful Life

Scrooge

X-Men

Veer Zara (saw both main actors live at a show)

Rainman

Pirates of the Caribbean

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (in my son’s first few months of life, he would mostly go to sleep only to the soundtrack of this movie)

Sound of Music (was present when it premiered in Trinidad, with two of it’s actors)

DiVinci Code

Bulletproof Monk

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Harry Potter

Last Samurai

Mission Impossible

Sherlock Holmes

Four Feathers

Young Victoria

etc…

Books ~

by:
Dr.Wayne Dyer, Louis Hay
Dr. Deepak Chopra
Jim Pathfinder
Eckhart Tolle
Sri Sri Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji
Carl Sagan
Neale Donald Welsh
~various books written by Yogis, Sages, Scientists and Spiritual Masters from many different cultures

etc..more and so on…

~~~
Aum

]]> Comment on Once in a Thousand Flights There’s by Carlos http://richardbach.com/one-doesnt-often-see/#comment-1297 Carlos Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:46:18 +0000 http://richardbach.com/?p=2002#comment-1297 A nice "Brocken Spectre" A nice “Brocken Spectre”

]]> Comment on My Rorschach World by Hal Seeley http://richardbach.com/my-rorschach-world/#comment-1294 Hal Seeley Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:13:18 +0000 http://richardbach.com/?p=3011#comment-1294 If our world, our universe, is our projection then what we are seeing is a product of our mind. To see the immensity of ourselves just look skyward on a starry night. Look at the complexity of life on this planet and asked, "Are we the creators of what we see?" If this is the truth we can then take responsibility for everything we see, good or bad, and realize there is a possibility that we can change what we see. How is this possible, and how do we arrive at the moment of realization of who we are and what our capabilities are? Most importantly, how is it we affect a change? If our world, our universe, is our projection then what we are seeing is a product of our mind. To see the immensity of ourselves just look skyward on a starry night. Look at the complexity of life on this planet and asked, “Are we the creators of what we see?” If this is the truth we can then take responsibility for everything we see, good or bad, and realize there is a possibility that we can change what we see. How is this possible, and how do we arrive at the moment of realization of who we are and what our capabilities are? Most importantly, how is it we affect a change?

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