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5.0 out of 5 stars Illusions may change your life, 20 Jan 2000

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This review is from: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Paperback)

A friend loaned me Illusions with the instruction to read it three times in the next 24 hours then return it to her immediately.

As I read the book, I kept exclaiming "Yes, Yes." Everything in the book made so much sense and it was also a delightful story. Since that time, much of this wonderful book has affected and become part of my life. Everything I believed in, but didn't quite understand, was spelled out in such simplicity. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys receiving a positive influence in thier life or who just enjoy a good story.

I have read it countless times and it is new everytime.

Whenever someone really special in my life is having emotional problems, guess what I tell them...You got it. "Take this book and read it three time in the next 24 hours..."

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5.0 out of 5 stars One can treat it like a scripture, 24 Jun 2006

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Richard Bach's "Illusions" is a little book telling a story of two biplane pilots of whom one was Messiah and the other - his student willing to become Messiah.
In a form of the "Messiah Handbook" and continuous dialogues between the two as well as the situations happening in the book, Richard Bach delivers us the life-changing information and the greatest wisdom of life where every person is responsible for the life he has and has power to change it if he wants, also that the material life is illusion and that the spiritual life where no space or time exist is what is real...
I've read this book several times but each time I read I see and understand it differently. However it is always highly inspiring, awakening, positive, thought provoking and by all means brilliant!!! I love this book. It's a bit like Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince" or Paulo Coelho's "Alchemist" which are all masterpieces of all times.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Still extraordinary after 15 years!, 3 Jul 2001

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This review is from: Illusions: the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (Hardcover)

Richard Bach's classic is one of the very first self-development/spiritual books I ever read, and 15 years later it still compares very favourably with the best of the rest. There is profound truth and subtle humour on nearly every page, and I strongly recommend this beautifully written book to anyone who has not come across it yet.

The author meets stranger and fellow pilot Donald Shimoda and the story unfolds. About a third of the way through Richard starts reading the "Messiah's Handbook" which is quoted liberally from then on. It contains various pearls of wisdom.... "You teach best what you most need to learn", "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours" and (one of my favourites) "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 chapter where Shimoda and Richard visit the cinema to discover the meaning of life is a high point and the twist at the end of the book is absolutely brilliant. Enlightenment!

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