“Passionately obsessed by anything we love--an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love….”

—  Richard Bach

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

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American spiritual writer 1936

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