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Summary: Write Your Own Enlightenment
Review: I once read a review of this book that said something along the lines of "it is so vague that anyone from Hindu to Roman Catholic could find meaning in it." I agree whole-heartedly. This book contains so many mixed messages that anyone of any age at any time could find meaning in it. There is the admittance of a higher power (the Great Gull), and at the same time an extreme emphasis on the greatest importance of the self. Bach's tale of how the story came about(a voice in his head which dictated half the story to him then waited 11 years to dictate the rest) seems a little too far fetched for me. I think this book is a tiresome, low-vocabulary attempt at propheticism. If you're looking for meaningful allegories, go to your parent's book case and pick up a copy of THE LITTLE PRINCE...or create your own "voices."
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Summary: For ever...
Review: Keeps you feeling dizzy with height, poetry or virtue.
Make your pick.
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Summary: I think....
Review: I am inclined to disagree with the review of Jonathan Livingston Seagull on this website. I feel that this is an excellent book. The first time I read it I was on my way to a rifle match in Virginia. My coach gave me the book to read and it inspired me. I feel that this book is about setting realistic goals for yourself, and about touching excellence. The ideas in the book really related to my shooting career and opened up a whole new preception for me. I believe that this book should be required reading for anyone associated with any sport. It helps in mental development as well as social development
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Summary: Best quick fix of renewed spiritual energy
Review: Jonathan Livingston Seagull speaks to us all, if we listen. It can be a story aobut a seagull, but one doesn't have to look far to see it's deeper message. We are all free to soar in our own directions in life. Jonathan Livingston Seagull discovered the secret to his happiness, and that's what we are here to do! This book sneaks it's message in with a clever story. You won't finish this book without dreaming of new beginnings in your own life
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Summary: Share it, and help make a better world!
Review: I congratulatulate you, dear friend.
I heard the audio-tape on Jonathan's when I was about 10,I think. And the story has kept flying in my mind untill I get the audio-tape from my brother, some years later. So, I have duplicated several copies and share with other people. That was quit interesting because each person has created a particular idea of JLS. Now, I understand why, I suppose. JLS is an history of our growing process, and it, this way, relates to universal thruth. As a consequence according to your knowlegde basis or your spiritual "level" you have your picture of what JLS was about!
And my dear friend, the story is about, I think, just the supreme energy that has created us and all that in 3D(material world) and energy universe.
I will send you more, next time I take a time for that!
I have a video-media and it stays at my office I frequently play it. It sometimes feels just as a God's love music.
I thank you for sharing what JLS is about, and I hope for you a nice and wonderfull 1997.
God's energy be always in your live! See you!
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Summary: It's a useful, short read.
Review: I read this book quite some time back, and still feel that
I should have read it even earlier. There are really two
aspects to the book. You could take it as a story and you
could take it as a search for the basis of everyhthing one
does. It kindles one to think about life and its struggles.
Every parent should encourage his children to read this, early in adolescence.
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Summary: Free as a bird ...
Review: This is not the story of a seagull. This is a vision of freedom, captured within the pages of a book. It is the storyof every living being in this universe that yearns to be free. It is a cry of freedom, bursting out of the souls of every one of its readers. Everytime I read the book, I learnt something new. And all that I learnt from the book was essentially just one thing - that we are all free. And that it takes most of us a lifetime to realize it. It's portrayal of the seagull community is a saddening but true portrayal of the real world. This book is a triumph if ever there was one.
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Summary: Rare, unique, must-read book
Review: All I can say about this book is what it has done for me.
I read this book when I was 11 years old (I am now 29)and it definitely changed my way of viewing the world, the afterlife,
and why we are here and born to this earth. Jonathon Livingston Seagull is a philosophy,
and, as simple as it is, it is very profound. To this day and as long as I live, I am still learning, I am still reading spiritual books, I can still read Jonathon
and get something out of it and I still recommend it to people.
That, I think says a lot for this book!!
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Summary: Read it a long time ago and got sucked in!
Review: I read this as a teenager, and I have to admit it, I got sucked in. O.K., let's get something out of the way: this isn't great literature, nor is it a great story. This is a sermon, a parable, a mildly entertaining allegory about seeking a higher purpose in life, not simply living for food (or money or job or survival or routine -- whatever else Bach and you might substitute here). For young adolescents this is an easy read with a good message. As simple and easy to read as it is, it really doesn't surprise me that it sold so many copies. I have no idea what kind of editorial reviews this received when first published, but I suspect they were mostly critical of the message's simplemindedness. Bach isn't subtle, nor is he morally ambiguous. But then, I'm sure this really hit the spot for the idealistic flower power children at the time. I only wonder what Bach thinks of it now.
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Summary: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK EVER WRITTEN!
Review: Of all the countless, thousands of books I have read, "Johathan Livingston Seagull" is my number one favourite book. It is so much more than a simple story about a seagull who learns to spread his wings and fly. The book can have many individual interpretations, depending on how you relate to it, and to me that is the magical wonder of this beautiful, inspirational book. For each one of us, the book has its own personal meaning. To me, it is about personal freedom and having the courage to be the person you want to be; the freedom to become all that you were meant to be, not what someone else expects you to be. It is about spiritual freedom and how our fate on this Earth, and in whatever worlds may follow, is determined by the choices we make. As a parent, it is about learning to let go, for giving your children "wings," is the greatest gift they will ever receive. By setting them free, when they are no longer yours to hold, you are giving them the freedom to grow and the dauntless courage, strength and independence to fly on their own in an uncertain world. I have read this book so many times throughout the years that the pages are dog-eared and worn. The book is short, but the powerful lesson and message contained in these few pages is one many people never learn in an entire lifetime, no matter how many lifetimes they may live.
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