Citater om jonathan livingston seagull

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.
You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way
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. Pe
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill
He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip,
Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now
Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect. -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
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.
The gull sees farthest who flies highest.
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.
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.
Why, Jon, why? his mother asked.
Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.