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. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.
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," 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."
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
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 son, is being there.
The gull sees farthest who flies highest.
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.
Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.”
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
“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?”
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. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.
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," 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."
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.
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 son, is being there.
The gull sees farthest who flies highest.
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.
Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.”
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
“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?”
