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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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You've sacrificed your entire life to be who you are today. Was it worth it?

Imagination is an old soul.

There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

You find what you love and you learn everything about it. You bet your life on what you know and run from safety, off your mountain into the air, trusting the Principle of Flight to bring you soaring up on lift you cannot see with your eyes.

Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is...?
...ourselves.

We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else.

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

Learning/ is finding out/ what you already know./ Doing is demonstrating that/ you know it./ Teach is reminding others/ that they known just as well as you.
Your only/ obligation in any life time/ is to be true to yourself.
The simplest questions/ are the most profound./ Where were you born? Where is your home?/ Where are you going?/ What are you doing?/ Think about these/ once in a while, and/ watch your answers/ change.

You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.

Rompe las cadenas de tu pensamiento, y romperás también las cadenas de tu cuerpo

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Everything above may be wrong!

Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.