Chiang

Character in Jonathan Livingston Seagull From: Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Wise mentor figure representing enlightenment and transcendence

67 quotes

"Don't be afraid. You've just begun to understand what you really are."
Courage
"The only way to reach tomorrow is to be fully present today."
Time
"Everything you seek is already within you."
Creativity
"Perfect speed is being there."
Wisdom
"You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now."
Freedom
"Your body, friends, and the very e around you are no limits at all."
Courage
"It is because you believe it is difficult that you find it so."
"The path to transcendence of any kind is a choice, first, of what to practice."
Education
"The only true law is that which leads one to believe in oneself."
Faith
"You are much more than you believe yourself to be."
"Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself."
Philosophy
"Break the chains of your thought and you break the chains of your body too."
Freedom
"To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."
Success
"The test of a master is not perfection but love, love of flying."
"We choose our next world through what we learn in this one."
"You will begin to touch heaven when you concern yourself with saving the life of another gull."
"It is because you have already accepted the printout as true that you continue to see the printout, swerving and turning through the air."
"You are the only thing in the universe that is capable of choosing."
Freedom
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."
Truth
"Wishing, after all, is the first technique that any pilgrim has to master."
Dreams
"Flying is not really about moving your wings. It's a state of being."
Wisdom
"One lesson is the greatest of all lessons. The lesson is that nothing is impossible."
Inspiration
"Overcome space and all we have left is Here. Overcome time and all we have left is Now."
Wisdom
"Heaven is not a place or a time. It is being perfect."
Faith
"We are all Free to be who we wish to be."
Freedom
"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself."
Truth
"It is the evolution of consciousness that is important."
Education
"There is no limit except the one you set yourself."
Inspiration
"You must not underestimate the power of your own thoughts."
Power
"Each of us is in truth an idea of the Great Gull."
Faith