One of my Favorite books

Another excerpt I didn't write...but feel the need to share. This book touched my heart and expanded my mind. Everyone should read it. Everyone's mind needs a bit of opening.

From Illusions… Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah By Richard Bach
(the messiah is leaving and trying to explain it to the many)

And he said unto them, “if a man told God that he wanted most of all to help the suffering world, no matter the price to himself, and God answered and told him what he must do, should the man do as he is told?”

“Of course master!” cried the many “It should be pleasure for him to suffer the tortures of hell itself, should God ask it!”

“No matter what those tortures, nor how difficult the task?”

“Honor to be hanged, glory to be nailed to a tree and burned, it so be that God has asked,” Said they.

“And what would you do,” the master said unto the multitude, “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?”

And the multitude was silent, not a voice, not a sound, was heard upon the hillsides, across the valleys where they stood.

And the master said unto the silence, “In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. So it is that I have learned this day, and choose to leave you now to walk your own path, as you please.”

And he went his way through the crowds and left them and returned to the everyday world of men and machines.