

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you.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 these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed.We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again.For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating.Main article: Jonathan Livingston Seagull Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit (1994).If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it.Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978).

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.

