Book: The Seagull named Jonathan Livingston

- But why, John, why? - asked the mother. - Why is it so difficult to be the same as all? Low flying pelicans. And albatrosses. So let them plan themselves above the water! But you're a gull! ...

And when that is achieved, you're ready to the most difficult, to the point that carries the greatest of all forces, as well as joy and pleasure, the likes of which does not happen. For then you will be able to begin upward movement - the same that is given to the comprehension of the essence of love and kindness.

If our friendship and the bond between us was determined by the position in space and in time, overcoming space-time limitations, we would be instantly destroyed everything! However, after the victory over space is only Here. And after defeating the time - only Now. And surely you believe.

... but suddenly I saw them all for what they were, in fact, he considered their true nature. It lasted long - only a moment, but he liked what he saw, very much down to love.

Just keep looking and find yourself. Every day to get to know your true nature - this Tea Fletcher. He is your teacher. You only need to understand it and to train them to be.

Why is the hardest path of all matter is to convince free that it free and that he is quite capable himself to prove it, one only has to spend a little time training?

Very simply, Fletcher, just like everything else. Practice.

Aren't keen to learn about flying anything more than the basics: how to get from shore to food and back. For most gulls, most importantly - the food, not the flight. More than anything, Jonathan Livingston loved to fly. But this addiction, he understood, does not inspire respect for the birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, doing their experiments again and again planning over the water.

And each of the birds by cunning and by force tried to snatch a piece is fatter. Came another day full of worries and hassles.

We choose the next world in accord with what we learned in this. If we learned nothing, and the next world will be exactly the same as this, and we will have to overcome the same obstacles with the same lead weights on the feet.

... details of the events has worn off - they didn't matter.

Flock - the community of creatures that stubbornly did not want to open your eyes and see the joy of flying and therefore have turned their wings into a limited tool.

The most important thing in life was the aspiration to perfection that they loved the most.

New horizons, new questions.