Anandway: Blog

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

~ Richard Bach, Illusions

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, ‘I’ve got responsibilities.’

You teach best what you most need to learn.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while, and watch your answers change.

If God spoke directly to your face and said, ‘I command that you be happy in the world as long as you live,’ what would you do then?

We magnetise into our lives whatever we hold in our thought, for instance – if that is true, then somehow I have brought myself to this moment for a reason and so have you. Perhaps it is no coincidence that you are holding this book; perhaps there’s something about these adventures that you came here to remember.