Jonathan Livingston Seagull Author:Richard Bach This book, expressed as a parable of the flight experiments of a seagull, is really about aspiring to new things and soaring to new figurative heights. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a seagull with ambitions to fly higher, faster and farther than a seagull is supposed to fly.
This incredible book is one I read each and every summer -- it is good for my soul! Jonathan can be found in all of us; his joy, his despair, his success and his failure, his acceptance and his shunning -- through it all he senses a higher power we all will find in ourselves and in our faith.
This is a book I will always request from PBS -- for it is a privilege to share with others this fabulous story. If you haven't taken the time to read this book, please do yourself a favor and make time for it today.
This book actually has an ISBN (0-02-504540-4) but apparently Jonathan and I are the only two who know about it because it isn't recognized by anyone else.
I read it a long time ago, but re-reading the last few pages just now, the general theme is mind over matter; you can be anything you think you can, anything you give yourself the power to be; we haven't begun to tap the possibilities of what we can become.