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Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
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If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production out of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.
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Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being...
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
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Flying prevails whenever a man and his airplane are put to a test of maximum performance.
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If our friendship depends on things like 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 of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?
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You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.
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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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It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.
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Perspective— Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.
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Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.
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As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming, instead of being. Beyond time, we're all one.
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Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.
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The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.
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The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.
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Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect.
Then be sure of one thing:
The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.
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A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…
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We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
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Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
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You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?
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Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.
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"There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from."…
"You're quoting Snoopy the dog, I believe?"
"I'll quote the truth wherever I find it thank you."
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They... found Jonathan gliding peacefully and alone through his beloved sky. The two gulls which appeared at his wings were pure as starlight... most lovely of all was the skill with which they flew, their wingtips moving a precise and constant inch from his own.
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Richard Bach
Born:
June 23, 1936
(age 87)
Bio:
Richard David Bach is an American writer. He is widely known as the author of the hugely popular 1970s best-sellers Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, among others.
Known for:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
The bridge across forever (1984)
Messiah’s Handbook (2004)
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