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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. See my review for Bridge Across Forever. ( ) Richard Bach fulfills a promise to his childhood self, Dickie Bach, to teach him everything he learned from living. Richard had been a frightened child. He meets with his childhood self in order to understand and in some cases put to rest his earlier life thereby increasing the satisfaction in his current life. In this warm adventure of the mind and soul, Richard Bach approaches eternal questions, such as Who are we? What do we want to get out of our lives? What are we doing to achieve this? Do we have to be victims, rather than masters, of circumstance? How do we learn to love? Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit is a diary that combines childhood memories and reflections about how to search for meaning in life. It is based on talking with your inner child. Lost me at the 3/4 mark... Who is your inner child? What would your conversation look like if you could converse? What decisions did that child make, all those years ago, that still impact you today? Richard Bach explores this in a wonderful journey that reaches from a dry lake bed to the stars. Along the way resonant truths are expounded that immediately settle into the "I've known this all my life, but forgot until now" kind. no reviews | add a review
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Richard Bach made a promise, fifty years ago, to come back through time and teach himself everything he had learned from living. The pledge was forgotten until the day when, midair in his paraglider, Richard met Dickie Bach, age nine, who expected the promise to be kept. In this intimate adventure of mind and heart, Richard sets out to show Dickie the things that matter, and finds his teaching doesn't go as planned. Here is a book spun from delight and disaster, and from surprising notions about old questions: Who are we? What do we want to do with our lives, and why aren't we doing it? Must we be the victim of circumstance instead of its master? How do we learn to love? Throughout, Leslie Parrish-Bach shares the journey, offering her counterpoint to some of Richard's more challenging beliefs.
This is a journal of terror and triumph, of forgotten childhood and its keys to grown-up mysteries. Running from Safety entertains, exhilarates, inspires; a gift to those convinced that angels can meet us in the midst of storms to remind us why we've chosen to live. No library descriptions found. |
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