Jonathan Livingston Seagull

(মোৰ জীৱনত সৰ্বাধিক প্ৰভাৱ পেলোৱা এখন কিতাপ।)♥️

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

by Richard Bach 

1.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 will see the way to fly.

2.You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

3.You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

4.Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

5.Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

6.Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip," Jonathan would say, other times, "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.

7.He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

8.We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

9.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 same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

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

11.Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

12.He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.

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

14.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.

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

16.Why is it,” Jonathan puzzled, “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? Why should that be so hard?

17.Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

18.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.

19.You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way. It is the Law of the Great Gull, the Law that Is.

20.Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and

follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand

years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a

reason to live — to learn, to discover, to be free!

21.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.

22.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 fighting, or power in the Flock?

23.Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too. . . .