Jonathan Seagull is a story for one who knows that somewhere there’s a higher way of living than scuffing the tracks of others, someone who yearns to fly the way their own heart yearns to fly.
It’s a reminder, this little fable, that the path for us to follow is already written within, that it's for each of us to find our own loves, and live them brightly for ourselves. Others may watch, they may admire our resolution or despise it, but our one freedom is for us to love and to choose every day of our lives, as we wish.
http://www.jonathanlivingstonseagull.com/
Quotes:
“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”
“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".”
“Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.”
“Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.”
“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
Jonathan mets two gulls who take him to a "higher plane of existence" where there is no heaven but a better world found through perfection of knowledge.
“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”
“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”
Last words of his teacher: "Keep working on love" understanding that the spirit cannot be really free without the ability to forgive and that the way to progress leads—for him, at least—through becoming a teacher not just through working hard as a student. He returns to the Breakfast Flock to share his newly discovered ideals and tremendous experience, ready for the difficult fight against the current rules of that society. The ability to forgive seems to be a mandatory "passing condition".
“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”
“Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.”
“Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.”
“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all”
"Each of us is in truth an idea of the Great Gull, an unlimited idea of freedom."
“That the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he’d just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?”
“Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!”
“Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again”
“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”
“One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.”
“You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.”
“He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.
"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.”
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1743336-jonathan-livingston-seagull
It’s a reminder, this little fable, that the path for us to follow is already written within, that it's for each of us to find our own loves, and live them brightly for ourselves. Others may watch, they may admire our resolution or despise it, but our one freedom is for us to love and to choose every day of our lives, as we wish.
http://www.jonathanlivingstonseagull.com/
Quotes:
“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”
“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".”
“Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.”
“Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.”
“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
Jonathan mets two gulls who take him to a "higher plane of existence" where there is no heaven but a better world found through perfection of knowledge.
“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”
“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”
Last words of his teacher: "Keep working on love" understanding that the spirit cannot be really free without the ability to forgive and that the way to progress leads—for him, at least—through becoming a teacher not just through working hard as a student. He returns to the Breakfast Flock to share his newly discovered ideals and tremendous experience, ready for the difficult fight against the current rules of that society. The ability to forgive seems to be a mandatory "passing condition".
“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”
“Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.”
“Why, Jon, why?" his mother asked. "Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers!" "I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.”
“He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all”
"Each of us is in truth an idea of the Great Gull, an unlimited idea of freedom."
“That the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he’d just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?”
“Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!”
“Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again”
“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”
“One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.”
“You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.”
“He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.
"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.”
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1743336-jonathan-livingston-seagull
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