Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Illusions 1)

what you most need

to learn.

"You're awfully quiet over there, Richard," said Shimoda, as though he wanted to talk with me.

"Yeah," I said, and went on reading. If this was a book for masters only, I didn't want to let go of it.

Live

never to be

ashamed if anything you do

or say is published

around the world even if

what is published

is not true.

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.

Choose a different past? Literally or figuratively or how did it mean . . . ? "I think my mind just boggled, Don. I don't know how I could possibly learn this stuff."

"Practice. A little theory and a lot of practice," he said. "Take you about a week and a half."

"A week and a half."

"Yeah. Believe you know all answers, and you know all answers. Believe you're a master, and you are."

"I never said I wanted to be any master."