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American spiritual writer (born 1936)

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Richard Bach (born 23 June 1936) is an American writer, widely known as the author of some of the 1970s' biggest sellers, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977). Most of Bach's books have been semi-autobiographical, using actual or fictionalized events from his life to illustrate his philosophy, that our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance.

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Birth Name: Richard David Bach

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It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?

For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

There is
no such thing as a problem
without a gift for you
in its hands.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.

The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.

К ЧЕРТУ твою Совершенную Женщину! Она – выдуманная тобой, утыканная поддельными перьями всевозможных цветов курица весом с полтонны, которой никогда не взлететь! Все, что она может, – это бегать туда сюда, хлопать крыльями и пронзительно кудахтать, но никогда, никогда она не сможет оторваться от земли, никогда не сможет запеть. Ты, которого бросает в ужас при одной мысли о свадьбе, знаешь ли ты, что женат на этом чучеле?

Я обвенчался с идеей, которая оказалась неверной.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

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.

Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

What I have just heard is pure . . . listen! . . . radiance, that you took from cloud-linings and sunrises and distilled into light that I can hear! Do you know how good, how lovely that is, what you can make the piano do?

Soon as you realize you’re immortal,” he said, “declare the power of Love even when it seems invisible, you’ll go far beyond the illusions of space and time. In all history, the one power you never lose is your power of letting go of space and time, the joy of dying that is no wicked thing, it comes in love, to everyone.

Éste es el precio que se paga por ser el incomprendido; te llaman demonio o te llaman dios.

Когато настъпи последният ни миг и погледнем назад във времето, единственият въпрос, който ще има значение ще бъде “Какво беше качеството на нашата любов?