Jonathan Livingston Seagull

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled Gold across the ripples of a gentle sea...

Claimed to be the most inspirational fable of our time, by Richard Bach and beautiful pics (Most of the pages are on pics) by Russell Munson.

Indeed this is a story for people who follow their dreams and make their own rules.

For most seagulls, life consists simply of eating and surviving. Flying is just a means of finding food. However, Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird. For him, flying is life itself. Against the conventions of seagull society, he seeks to find a higher purpose and become the best at doing what he loves.

This is a fable about the importance of making the most of our lives, even if our goals run contrary to the norms of our flock, tribe or neighborhood. For not being like others he was outcast. But with inner control, he flew to another place, which at first he thought to be heaven, with others of similar taste. But then he wanted to come back and help others home.

As he continued learning we realise...

If we follow our dreams, we too can soar.

Speed was power, speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.

Boredom, and fear and anger are the reason, why life is short. With these gone, you can live a long life indeed.

Most of us live, forgetting right away where we had come from, not caring where we were headed, living for the moment.

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 limitations and the lead weights to overcome.

It always works, when you know, what you are doing, and keep working on love.

If our friendship depends on space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle is Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?

To fly high, you need to be firm, but smooth.

The flight of ideas could be as real as other flights. Each of us in truth is an idea. Everything that limits us, we must put aside. Practice.

Your whole body is nothing but your thought. Break the chains of your thoughts, and your break the chain of your body too.

We're free to go where we wish and to be what we are.

You know nothing till you prove it!!

Understand what you really are and practice it. The only true law is that leads you to freedom. Whatever stands against it must be set aside, may it be ritual, or superstition or limitation in any form.

The hardest thing in the world is to convince a person that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd spend a little time practising.

You don't love hatred and evil of course. See the good in everyone, and help them see it themselves. It's fun, when you get the knack of it.

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

No limits! Your race to learn has begun!!