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Anonymous Coward User ID: 10382024 United States 04/08/2012 07:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If you want to read real truth about our existence, this silly little paperback from the 1970s can show you the way! Honest! *Smile*- The Temple of Shakespeare Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme? But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till the judgement that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14017320 United States 04/08/2012 09:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If you want to read real truth about our existence, this silly little paperback from the 1970s can show you the way! Honest! *Smile*- I love this little 1970s book! I can honestly say that it changed my life. The concepts presented in this little paperback are as real as anything that I have read. Though written in a light hearted, even funny approach, the ideas are real truth. Quoting: 1123581321 You decide. Fibonacci ================================== Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them all--young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth. But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom." The other creatures laughed and said, "Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks and you will die quicker than boredom!" But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more. And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, "See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!" And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure." But they cried the more, "Savior!" all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Savior. -- Richard Bach - Illusions, Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah My most favorite of them all, and that's saying something but then if you're going to bother, may as well aye' I've purchased that particular book countless times and then loaned it out to others whom I knew could benefit from it on any number of levels, yea tho I suspected they wouldn't bother... time and again, right as rain in fact of the whole lot nary even a one bothered to return it, nor in truth did they ever crack it, apparently. : ) "The Masters Handbook" 101 |
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User ID: 10309055 United States 04/08/2012 09:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If you want to read real truth about our existence, this silly little paperback from the 1970s can show you the way! Honest! *Smile*- Because you might learn that the world is much more amazing than you have been taught? Your choice. Because you want to pretend there is no sin? To hide your own? That satan is not the ruler of this world? Your choice. Its OK! Your mind han't experienced the necessary revolution to perceive the watersheds of coherence this OP offers,all in due time! “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14031976 Australia 04/08/2012 10:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If you want to read real truth about our existence, this silly little paperback from the 1970s can show you the way! Honest! *Smile*- I love this little 1970s book! I can honestly say that it changed my life. The concepts presented in this little paperback are as real as anything that I have read. Though written in a light hearted, even funny approach, the ideas are real truth. Quoting: 1123581321 You decide. Fibonacci ================================== Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. The current of the river swept silently over them all--young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self. Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth. But one creature said at last, "I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom." The other creatures laughed and said, "Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks and you will die quicker than boredom!" But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more. And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, "See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!" And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure." But they cried the more, "Savior!" all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Savior. -- Richard Bach - Illusions, Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah It's a nice story but, going with the flow, actually gets you no-where. Unless you create a life for yourself yes? |
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User ID: 13827568 United States 04/08/2012 10:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If you want to read real truth about our existence, this silly little paperback from the 1970s can show you the way! Honest! *Smile*- In 1995 I was going through a divorce I didn't ask for and was looking for answers to life's pain. This is one of the books that helped me make it through to the other side. And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams - Acts 2:17 (KJV) |
Scorpio User ID: 1592417 04/08/2012 10:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If you want to read real truth about our existence, this silly little paperback from the 1970s can show you the way! Honest! *Smile*- Oh, I LOVE that book! Blew me away, and one of my top five favourite books of all time. Everyone I lent it to wanted to keep it, so I've bought more copies than I can remember. 25 years after I first read it, it's still on the shelf here right next to me. A fantastic, life-changing book. It's one of those few rare books that you wish *everyone* in the world could read. I know it nearly off by heart! "There was a Master come unto the earth, born in the holy land of Indiana...." :) |
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(OP) User ID: 14059668 United States 04/09/2012 11:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If you want to read real truth about our existence, this silly little paperback from the 1970s can show you the way! Honest! *Smile*- I have over 300 books (physical books) in my metaphysical library. Illusions is still my favorite. I love it where Don explains life to Richard by taking him into the movie, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". After explaining why life is like a motion picture he explains, "We are suppose to be fun loving creatures. The otters of the Universe." Quoting: Gawain Gawain I slowly started giving away all of my many, many books a while back. I now only keep four books. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions - Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah and New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. I read others online, but these I keep close to me in paper form. Yes! Our inner consciousness/soul are really the otters of the Universe. We love to play. Many will not understand by thinking we are just these bodies, but we are not these dense physical bodies. Peace Last Edited by 1123581321 on 04/09/2012 11:58 AM |
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(OP) User ID: 14059668 United States 04/09/2012 12:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If you want to read real truth about our existence, this silly little paperback from the 1970s can show you the way! Honest! *Smile*- Its another msg board, a christian one, and Fibonaci used to post there. He has joined the army or something and is in training, we all miss him very much. Quoting: goldenmean81 I'm much too old to be in the military now. I was in the military back in the 1970s. I don't believe that I would make the same choice today, but we all change from our experiences. I believe that we come to this dense physical reality for one reason, that is to learn. We learn from our bad/negative/evil experiences just as well as we do from our good/loving experiences. Both are just learning tools. Peace |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 41136832 Australia 06/04/2013 05:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If you want to read real truth about our existence, this silly little paperback from the 1970s can show you the way! Honest! *Smile*- A beautiful book by an intriguing author. I have his entire works...and when I am in a second hand shop and I see a copy of any of them I buy it , because they seem to be popular among my friends. |