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  <title><![CDATA[Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit]]></title>
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  <default_description>A half-mile up, suspended by nylon wings and the promise of good lift, life hanges on a pledge.&#160;&#160;Richard Bach made that pledge, fifty years before, to return to the frightened child he used to be and teach him everything he had learned from living.&#160;&#160;His promise went unfulfilled until one day, hovering between earth and sky, Richard encounters Dickie Bach, age nine--irrepressible challenger of every notion Richard embraces....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this exhilarating adventure, Richard and Dickie probe the timeless questions both need answered if either is to be whole: Why does growing spiritually mean never growing up? Can we peacefully coexist with the consequences of our choices? Why is it that only by running from safety can we make our wildest dreams take flight?</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Diki...he can show you the way of truth...just find him...search on yourself.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 28 09:53:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Favorite Quotes</strong><br/><br/>If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/464613">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the 2nd Richard Bach book I've tried to read &amp; sadly he &amp; I just don't connect. I've nothing against folks searching for meaning in life but could not follow this fellow's ramblings and only made it about half way.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 17 22:15:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[About the time his inner-child whipped out a flamethrower, I knew there was no way I was going to be able to finish this book.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit by Richard Bach (1995)]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Richard Bach is an interesting man. It seems he felt the need to address some of his personal shortcomings in this book, address the question of whether or not they are, in fact, shortcomings, and in general assert that he is still very happy to be the founder of his own belief system and quite sure...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36573335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is one that you have to be ready to be all philosophical for and you will put it down because your brain is fried and than will pick it up just to finish it.  Can be a great discussion book....that is why you would finish it....to talk about it with someone else who has read it....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a great line in this book about knowing that sometimes you just need to run, jump off the cliff, and know that your hanglider is going to catch you, especially when you are feeling the most comfortable and NOT wanting to jump. That has stayed with me since reading it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Richard Bach is one of my all time favorite authors.  I've read &quot;Illusions&quot;, &quot;The Bridge Across Forever&quot; (GREAT LOVE STORY!!) and the infamous &quot;Jonathan Livingston Seagull&quot;.  I'm excited for this new one!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should have this on my 'to read' list, but I've started it....before we moved.....and now I'm at a stall with this book, while reading others....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3 cheers for the &quot;wookies&quot; in all of us ... wish this book would come back to me, now that I've said that, it will....]]></body>
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    <review id="36314928">
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    <body><![CDATA[This one's intense.  You better bring your A game.]]></body>
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