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Summary: A remarkable journey into higher truths
Review: This is one remarkable book. A true masterpiece. If you are a a point in your life where you've lost your purpose for being or you want to achieve more or change a career etc...this one is for you. More than that, anyone who is on a journey of self discovery and higher states of counciousness will find this one a great motivator. Richard Bach is one of the most talented writers of our time and writes from the heart. 5 stars all the way!
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Summary: A Great Metaphorical Story
Review: I honestly don't know how anyone can give this book a bad review. It is an exellent story about a seagull who is unhappy with day-to-day survival, and wants to learn to fly (literally and figuratively). He eventually is outcast, and slowly attains a higher statte of consciousness. He then returns to bring others into the light, and relieve them from the darkness and drivel of ordinary survival. This is an interesting and inspiring story, and the semi-spiritual element is something that we would all like to believe.
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Summary: Interesting, but lacking real truth
Review: My teacher recomended i read this, and I was really looking foreward to reading it. But after starting I was dissapointed. The whole thing was about a Bhuddist seagull. Basically taking the theory of bhuddism and explainging it through an example of seagull civilization. It was an interesting book to read in less than an hour, but it had no real truth, and no real meaning.
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Summary: ¿We¿ve come to take you higher, to take you home.¿
Review: Misunderstood because of his radical flights of fancy - and fancy flights! A Seagull, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, discontent with squawking and pecking for food, finds himself outcast from the brotherhood. Believing that there is more to life than "flying to eat," he spends his time in isolation, determined to find what that is.This book is not about seagulls - it is about life. It is about conformity, for conformity's sake. It is about breaking out of that mold that we are forced into. It is about the Spirit that is within us all, if we dare to chance a peek. We can live our entire lives - squeezing ourselves into someone else's idea of what it means to be successful, rich, powerful, happy. Or we can find what these mean for ourselves, if we spread our wings and fly! Jonathan teaches us to *be*; to practice perfection in whatever form it may manifest. Jonathan also shows us that this may not be easy, however,
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Summary: jonathan livingston seagull
Review: A sort of self-help book,but in a different format.It tells us of a seagull called Jonathan who has an urge for studying, learns a lot. He was helped by a group of learned seagulls in his progress after a period of time(i.e.when he was invited to a new Flock and home after being made Outcast.) and finally gains spiritual enlightenment.Thus, he returned back to help the less fortunate seagulls in his former Flock.A good allegory, it teaches us the power of our thought and to control it.Also,If you like, you can read it as a fantasty story too.
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Summary: Plagiarized, but creatively so
Review: I liked this book. 'Twas warm, and fuzzy, too. Fact is, I liked it the FIRST time I read it-- when it was called "Anthem". Why is Rand's book so scorned, when a watered-down, half-baked tripe like this becomes so adored? I suppose just telling people what they want to hear has sales potential, if nothing else.
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Summary: A book to free the mind.
Review: Beautiful book. I bought the Jonathan Livingston LP as well. (found it at a garage sale for 2 bucks.) A good book to pick you up, almost like the opposite of a Dilbert book. Inspiring, touching, and can be read in a short period of time. Also read Illusions, and One by the same author. Illusions was pretty good too. Follows along the same philosophy of being able to free your mind. Just don't take the book to literally, it is more of a figurative book. Have fun with the book!
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Summary: There may be more here than you think...
Review: This simple yet deep story brings together a wonderful spiritual message with the advanced research of physics and energy work. Timelessness, spacelessness, and the vibration of the human energy field are central to Eastern spiritual traditions and to advanced Western science. Bach weaved these together in a unique fashion and thus, the allegory can be understood on many levels - hopefully you will see this. Let your curiosity be piqued and try not to overlook the human potential to transcend the physical existence. Indeed, this is what being fully human means. As for the simple spiritual level and lessons, his words resonated deeply.
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Summary: A good book but not without its flaws
Review: I read this book at a time in my life when I aspired to become an excellent musician. It was extremely inspirational and somewhat destructive. It follows the silly North American idea of being "the best" at the cost of everything else in one's life. Striving to be the best at something is counter-productive and will leave you empty and frustrated. There is more to life than being the best flyer in the group or whatever. So it's inspirational for trying to achieve goals but leaves out the downside of missing out on life. But this book is *not* mindless psycho babble. It is an interesting allegory and a decent book.
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Summary: psycho-babble
Review: This book had to be one of the worst pieces of dribble I have read in years. I honestly don't understand how all these reviewers can give it 5 stars. I initiated it with an open mind and a willingness to contemplate its "inner message". However, upon completion, I merely felt deflated and cheated out of a decent allegory. I think the ad campaign for the US army already stole the moral to this story: be all you can be.
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