She brought the book into me as promised a couple days later with a four leaf clover as a book mark. I asked what it represented and she told me it was the feather from the cover of a book, called 'Illusions', and it had changed her life. (It was as always, an attempt to get her to lower the jeans) - It was a blue feather tattoo. One day a girl came into the pizza parlor I was working at and I commented on her tramp stamp.

If you want to go that route head straight for 'Psycho-Cybernetics' by Maxwell Maltz. Last years phenom book and DVD 'The Secret' tried to express the same ideas in a much less creative manner. The idea that our thoughts can control our lives is a very powerful one and truer than many realize.

'Rarely do members of the same family grow up in the same house.'

'We teach best what we most need to learn.' 'Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.' Probably my all time favorite. I have seen quotes from this book appear in many locations and use many of them myself when working with students. That always surprised me because I felt that most of the ideas contained here were quite Christ like. I remember that some factions of the Christian right were outraged that the book referred to a Messiah other than Jesus. The fact that the author kind of went a bit off the deep end does not bother me (although it did for a while!) I still believe the ideas contained here are timeless and profound. Not because the writing was so great but the thoughts contained in it were so close to what I was feeling as a 19 year old away from home and on my own for the first time. I believe this book moved me more than any other before or since.

Illusions reluctant messiah