“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

—  Richard Bach

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

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American spiritual writer 1936

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