illusions

  You are led

through your lifetime

by the inner learning creature,

    the playful spiritual being

      that is your real self.

                              Don’t turn away

               from possible futures

   before you’re certain you don’t have

        anything to learn from them.

    You’re always free

to change your mind and

  choose a different future, or

    a different

         past.

      You are

  never given a wish

without also being given the

      power to make it true.

                              You may

                      have to work for it,

                                however.

 

  The

original sin is to

     limit the Is. 

             Don’t.

    Every person,

all the events of your life

   are there because you have

        drawn them there.

                        What you choose

                           to do with them is

                      up to you.

Richard Bach.  Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Human Felicity is produc’d not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every day.”

—BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, American statesman and writer

"O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come."

-Richard Llewellyn

“And what I’ve learned is not to believe in magical leaders any more; that character and compassion are more important than ideology; and that even if it’s absurd to think you can change things, it’s even more absurd to think that it’s foolish and unimportant to try.”

—Peter C. Newman, Canadian journalist

How to Make a Journal of Your Life

Quotes from this little book by d.price

"I have seldom gone on a tramp without seeing things hat made the heart ache with their beauty or pathos, and other things that set the mind a-tingle with intellectual curiosity.  I do not refer to great episodes, but to the little things, unexpected visions of life!  Some were unforgettable in themselves and seemed to need no other tablets than those of memory, and yet it was a great addition to inner content and happiness to describe them in my day-book of travels." (pg 5)
                                              --Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

"It is in description that the keeper of a diary becomes artist.  All description is art, and in describing an event, an action or a being, you enter into the joy of art.  You are more than the mere secretary of life, patiently taking down dictation; you become its singer, the expresser of its glory.  With a verbal description goes also sketching, the thumbnail sketch, the vague impression.  There is no reason for being afraid of bad drawing in one's own personal travel diary.  The main thing is that it be yours and have some relationship to the eyes and the thing seen." (pg 12)
                                              --Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

"Believe in yourself.  Believe in your capacity.  Believe in your goodness.  Seek adventure.  Climb high mountains.  Run wild rivers.  Live daily with this spirit.  Take care.  Follow your dreams, but watch your step.  Have fun, sing, dance, laugh, and spread joy wherever you journey." (pg 65)
                                             --Royal Robbins

"Be strong and do not betray your soul.  Carry your light to illuminate your destiny.  Rejoice, for you are part of the Great Mystery." (pg 34)
                                            --old Indian saying