The reluctant messiah is a divine guru who helps humans elevate their lives & sanitizes the planet by spreading spirituality. Today messiahs are the selfless gurus who impart lessons to their students. Messiah is the means and self-introspection of an individual, is the result of the union of two.
A pilot himself; Bach recently survived a plane crash while piloting to
visit a friend and has recovered well to write many similar marvels. This
prolific writer has written many works of fiction and nonfiction including the
much spoken “Jonathan
Livingston Seagull” (1970). The flair of philosophy is felt
in all his writings as most of his texts are the elucidations of his stints in
various professional roles. This true manifestation of life establishes him as
a canonical philosopher of the time.
Illusion appears to be an eternal relation between humans and their
dreams. Life sometimes may look like a lost ball in the high weeds but there is
a meaning which the human soul has to dig out to give it a shape of thoughts to
live with. Limiting life to something is like quitting the
adventure and defending the tranquility of life which may look like the ethos
of a social life, but its gold what messiah said “Argue for your limitations
and sure enough they are yours”. The inactive potency needs a stir, a jolt
to bring the best out. It’s the self-introspection and realization of inner
abilities which gives us a thrust to strive to be better. Definitely it’s a
sin to limit Illusion. That is why we are never given a wish without also been
given the power to make it true; however our thoughts need to conceive and
pronounce results.
The book
tends to pacify all turbulent minds to focus back on the life’s reality. Illusion
is the wish all of us have, a distant dream that most of us wish to live. It’s
difficult to believe in the thought that the life which we are living is just a
sequence of natural but controlled illusions, a sequel of what we bring in to
our lives. It’s possible to control our inner being, if we guide or train our
neurons to send brain a message not to stimulate a desire. There is a strange
but true observance that our senses are the real master of our life motion. Our
senses reciprocate what we subject them to. The underlying message is that it’s
up to humans and individuals to build a world around them that they wish for.
The IBM way of branding looks pertinent to the philosophy when a gamut of
employees unanimously shout for a smarter planet. Today it’s the smarter planet
that we wish to grow and cultivate around us through technologies or by deeds.
“Every
person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them
there, what you choose to do with them is up to you “. Inception
of friendship or a character in our lives is not a co-incidence or a natural
event; it’s entirely up to the individual to give it a shape of some predefined
relationship. Once we get into a relation, we most of the time forget the
sanctity and importance of it, unknowingly it transforms to such state of
intimacy that it becomes the oxygen of our daily life.
Few defining
lines from the book make me recommend this to all those who start their day
with a wish to go that extra mile. The book is definitely for those who enjoy
exploring lateral views of life. “What
the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly”
Reading some
encoded divine thoughts and mystical philosophies would not be a great fun until
you infuse and start relating to it. The fate and destiny are two most wishful
corner stones of one’s life which often generate tide and unrest a soul.
Illusion is a short book with life transforming philosophies, a book that can
induce and reignite the lost passion one might be searching for in both
professional and personal space. It’s a classic metaphor of our lives that
Richard Bach brings to readers, a fine justice to his learnings from the
mechanic messiah.
