| There Are Only Two Ways |
| There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. |
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Ten Reminders for the Advanced Soul
Richard Bach
1. Remember that this world is not reality. It’s a playground of appearances on which you practise overcoming seems-to-be with your knowing of what is.
2. A lifetime is your chance to express the IS in the most adventurous creative way you can imagine.
3. The IS is Life, Love, the Magnificent IT at the centre of your being. The IS does not recognize the limitations of spacetime, nor does it recognize your sorrows, fears, or beliefs. It does not see you as an upright biped on the surface of a third planet from a little sun at the edge of a small galaxy of an insignificant universe sandwiched for a moment between multiple trillions of other universes. It sees you reflecting Itself, and allows you the absolute freedom to do anything you wish, except to die.
4. Who you are is someone who asked to be dropped off on earth so you could do something remarkable, something that matters to you, which you could not do anywhere, anywhen else.
5. You are free to create and honour whatever past you choose, to heal and transform your present.
6. You do not create your own reality. You create your own appearances. Big difference!
7. If one inspired innocent loving soaring dreamer believes in a universe of joy and light and perfect being, and if she’s wrong and dies, it’s not the dreamer who’s been foolish, but the universe.
8. If God looked directly into your eyes and said, ‘I command that you be happy in the world as long as you live,’ what would you do?
9. You’ve all learned something that someone somewhere needs to remember. How will you let them know?
10. Your oneness in love is reality, and mirages cannot change reality. Don’t forget. No matter what seems to be.
From Messiah’s Handbook © 2004 by Richard Bach
