Excerpts from the book
'Jonathan Livingston Seagull'
by Richard Bach
 "It is funny, we are given the choice, everyday to learn and move
forward or to repeat what we already know and remain stagnant, flat or still. With
learning comes the fear of the unknown but at the same time, the satisfaction of
discovery. All people can feel this satisfaction but because of the fear involved, most
choose to remain in the safety of the still word. they are too afraid of the uncertainty.
It is the few that remember what the satisfaction of learning feels like that continue on
forward. (...)
 Do I risk stability and live or do I stay away from risk and forfeit
learning. The majority of people have the idea of learning or LIFE, backwards. they
hold on things we have already discovered or learned, never asking if there is more.
The few of us who choose to live are the ones that are
often looked down on, or called strange, but in reality are the ones that moves the
unliving majorities forward. We advance the masses or majority by raising the bar of
knowledge and discovery. This of course is part of the test. (...)
We must be always open to new adventures. We are lucky
enough to have opened our eyes to the gift of sight and our responsibility is to share
this vision with those who are willing to see and teach those with closed eyes that they
can be opened.
 For in our wide field of vision we see that
we are not great people high on mountain, but children who have just begun to walk. We
open our eyes in stages and the hardest step is the first stage, of which You and I have
passed . This stage is the stage of accepting that we can do anything we wish as long as
we put our minds into it. often our Bad Moments are SELF Propelled...and the Drama of the
bad moment is almost exclusively in our heads and hearts. Going forward the challenge of
the UNKNOWN looks to be EXCITING."
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