Reflections from Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Lessons from Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1.       The same inner child but body changes in heavenly places

2.       Yet there seems to be limits in heaven contrary to our beliefs

3.       Our beliefs of memories need to fall away

4.       Welcome and Home are experiences of heavenly places

5.       There is as much to learn as before but with a difference

6.       No distractions in learning, no fighting for first place

7.       We forget where we come from and where we are going

8.       This is why more are not on the path

9.       From one experience to another we must learn more than eating, fighting and power in the flock.

10.   We choose the world to come by our choices here in this one world

11.   Learn nothing and nothing is what you will experience

12.   Practicing entails copying until it becomes your own.

13.   Instead of being enfeebled by age become empowered by it

14.   Heaven is not a place and it is not a time, it is the experience of perfect wholeness w/o lack

15.   Heaven is being perfect

16.   You will touch heaven when you touch perfect performance on the level of thought activity

17.   That is not having a perfect concept in mind or having a certain number of scriptures memorized.

18.   Perfection in Spirit is not the perfect performance of a spiritual discipline or method

19.   Any number or system has a limit and perfection is freedom from all limits

20.   Perfect performance at the level of thought is Being there where ever you are fully alive there

21.   Those who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere slowly

22.   To go everywhere and any when I can think of is our destiny…so consider it well

23.   Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere instantly

24.   Place and time is so very meaningless on the level of the Divine

25.   To fly as fast as thought to any where one must know that you have already arrived

26.   The trick is to stop seeing yourself as trapped in a limited self and body and to know that your true self is as an unwritten number no limits across space and time.

27.   To know that we are a perfect unlimited Son and Daughter of God

28.   It always works when you know what you are doing

29.   Being new does not mean that you are more ignorant than others your elder

30.   To be unafraid of learning is the trick of success

31.   Our teachers always change form but are always the same source.

32.   Keep working on love

33.   Life as more than a means to get out of here and to somewhere or when

34.   Thought speed flight is the thing to be mastered

35.   The bird sees farthest that flies the highest

36.   If our friendship is reliant upon space and time then when space and time become meaningless what will have destroyed our friendship

37.   Overcome space all we have left is here

38.   Overcome time all we have left is now

39.   We are not bone and flesh but the perfect idea of unlimited potential

40.   There is more to life than struggling to survive.

41.   Do you want to fly so much that you will forgive others and share

42.   Begin with balance or level flight

43.   To learn control is why we are here

44.   To be firm but smooth, peaceful

45.   Flight for the joy of flying

46.   It is easier to do something than to understand the reasoning behind it

47.   Practice is exciting but the flight of Spirit is as real as flight of the body

48.   The body is nothing more than thought made visible

49.   Break the chains that you have on your body and you break the limits of your mind

50.   We are in truth each an idea of the Great One Life the unlimited idea of freedom

51.   Precision living is the step necessary  toward the expression of our true nature

52.   Every limiting idea must be put aside

53.   Frustration at our learning curve is inevitable for it is our fury that motivates change

54.   Our whole body is nothing but a thought itself but in a form we can see

55.   Sounds like pleasant fiction to most though it is the most solid fact

56.   You do not have to obey the law if you are not a part of the flock (the societal norm)

57.   We must learn to practice living flying in the face of opposition

58.   We have the freedom to be ourself our true self it is the Law of the Great God

59.   It is right to fly and freedom is the very nature of us

60.   All that restricts must be put aside

61.   We are often are made to be more or less than what we are

62.   The price of being misunderstood we are called either devil or savior

63.   We are ahead of the fashion but it is on its wayl

64.   Obstacles are like a hard door they open the way to someplace else

65.   We can change our level of consciousness rather slowly  or more swiftly

66.   Find out what you already know and know it again

67.   Why is it the hardest thing is to prove to a person that they are free

68.   We get everywhere by practice

69.   We must practice and see the real person in everyone and help them to see it

70.   Find yourself a little more each day, understand self and learn to love self

71.   Do not believe what our eyes tell us they see only limitation

72.   We are an image of the Great God

73.   Let us begin with level flight/living