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JONATHAN
LIVINGSTON SEAGULL |
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There's
a reason to life!...We can be free! WE CAN LEARN TO FLY! |
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| There's
no way around it. I am a seagull. I am limited by
my nature. If i weren't meant to learn so much about
flying, i'd have charts for brains...my father is right,
i must forget this foolishness. I must fly home to the
Flock and be content as I am, as a poor limited seagull. |
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His vows of
moment before were forgotten, swept away in the great
swift wind. Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the
promises he had made himself.uch promises are only for
those who accept the ordinary. One who has touched
excellence in his learning has no need for that kind of
promise. |
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For
each of them the most important thing in living was to
reach out and touch perfection in that which they most
loved to do... |
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| "Most
of us came along ever so slowly. We went from one
world into another that was almost exactly like it,
forgetting rite away where we had come from, not caring
where we were headed, living for the moment. 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 fiting...A thousand lives! and then
another hundred until we begin to learn that there is
such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to
get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that
perfection and to show it forth. The same rule holds for
us now: we choose our next world thru what we learn in
this one. Learn nothing and the next one is the same as
this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to
overcome. |
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The
trick was to stop himself as trapped...the trick was to
know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an
unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and
time...The trick is that we are trying to overcome our
limitations in order, patiently... |
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The gulls who scorn perfection for the
sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside
travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere instantly. |
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"I
don't understand how you manage to love a mob of birds
that just tried to kill you"..."Oh Fletch, you
don't love that! 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." |
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BACK TO MAIN |
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