Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

8.6/102 min read

3/4/20

  • Don’t fit in

  • You aren’t just alive to eat

  • Boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with these gone from thought, you’ll live a long fine line indeed

  • Everything that limits us we have to put aside

  • Your whole body 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

  • The hull who speaks to an outcast is himself an outcast

  • Freedom is the very nature of being. Whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual, or superstition or limitation in any form

  • Understand what you really are and practice it

  • Why is it 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?

  • You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves

  • You need to keep finding yourself, a little more each day

  • 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