Jonathan Livingston Seagull a story by Richard Bach

 

This is one of those books I can read again and again....and enjoy it even more, every time.....

Extracts from the book -

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one.

".....Because any number is  a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits...."

"To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is," he said, "you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived..."

The trick according to Chiang, was for Jonathan to stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body that had a forty-two-inch wingspan and performance that could be plotted on a chart. The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.

"Jonathan...keep working on love"

"...and in the middle of here and now, don't you think that we might see each other one or twice?"

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'll see the way to fly."

'unlimited idea of freedom'.