Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“They are saying in the Flock that if you are not the Son of the Great Gull Himself”, Fletcher told Jonathan one morning after Advanced Speed Practice, “then you are a thousand years ahead of your time.”
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood he thought. They call you devil or they call you god. “What do you think, Fletch? Are we ahead of our time?”
A long silence, “Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anyone who wanted to discover it; that’s got nothing to do with time. We’re ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way that most gulls fly.”“That’s something,” Jonathan said, rolling to glide inverted for a while. “That’s not half as bad as being ahead of our time”.
Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts

Friday, September 21, 2012

Swimming Freely with Dolphins

So, this evening on the way home I spotted 4 sea kayakers from the train. I then noticed that they were being followed by what I thought were the porpoises again, but then I realised they were actually dolphins! The kayakers soon realised they were being followed. So, I decided to get off the train and walk along the beach to get a closer look -  the dolphins were jumping out of the water with the kayakers were looking on in amazement (maybe it was these dolphins I saw yesterday). It was beautiful. The sun was setting. What a blessing to see these beautiful creatures so close to home!
 

This from http://www.spiritwalkministry.com/spirit_guides/water_animal_spirits
 

"Dolphin  -- [Do not confuse with the 'Porpoise'] -- Inner sounds that can create outer manifestations.  Living in tune with the patterns and rhythm of nature. Using the power of breathing as an emotional release of anger and pain.  Swimming freely and going along with your  feelings."


 

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Porpoises

I just got back from a great run - up over the hill and along by the sea. I did some exercises on the beach and then jumped in the sea for a few minutes. I didn't swim (waves too high and the tide in), but  it was so invigorating. I sat on the beach and watched the sea for a while. It is such a nice day - perfect blue sky, blue green sea and lots of seagulls and other wildlife.

A little further along the beach I noticed at least 2 porpoise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porpoise) diving in and out of the sea as I ran along. I hadn't seen them before - they were wonderful, although I couldn't see them too well as they were a distance from the shore. 

I looked up the spiritual meaning of porpoise - "denotes spiritual guidance, or humanitarian nature"...funny thing was, I had a brief chat to an old gentleman who said hello to me. I told him about the porpoise. He was pleased to hear this, then asked if they like warm water. I said I didn't know - then he said, quite profoundly, "The world is changing and we have to stay positive". " Have faith" I said..he looked at me and then said "Yes, have faith"! I said "it was nice talking to you" and off I ran..... it was one of those special meetings/synchronicities ...really profound...an important message I think!



 

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Golden Threads 1: Wisdom and Knowledge

Initially, I would like to speak to you about the differences between knowledge and wisdom. It is important to have knowledge about things - to be knowledgeable - but, during recent human history on Earth, you have valued the acquisition of knowledge to the detriment of gaining wisdom. You have even ignored the need for wisdom altogether, hence the mess you and your planet are currently in.

The worst in you has always emerged when you have denied and continue to not recognize the incredible ability that you have to create things out of nothing (or at least what seems to you to be nothing - I will deal with this concept of ‘nothing’ later). You are an extremely creative species, but your creativity and your recognition of the power you have to create, for example to manifest your own futures and to heal your own pasts and your own bodies, has been suppressed by the those who have governed you, to your detriment and their gain. I include here the political, religious and scientific establishment. And this has gone on for centuries, for so long that you have taken it as a fact that you are powerless to change anything.

You think you have knowledge of the world, and indeed your scientists have made incredible progress in their understanding of material reality. However, many of you continue to ignore the deep insights of science, while others ignore the traditions of wisdom provided by many of your ancient cultures.


Thursday, October 21, 2010

More than Words

 I came across this somewhere on the web a few weeks ago (not mine)....


LOVE
LIVING
ONE
VIBRATIONAL
ENERGY


....thought this was great, so I decided that I'd come up with some others of my own...(had to add a few extra letters in here and there on occasions ;-))

...here goes...

LIFE
LOVING the
INFINITE
FEELING of the
ETERNAL

WISE
WHEN
INNER
SILENCE is
EXPRESSED

Eckhart Tolle talks about being ONE WITH LIFE (in A New Earth), which is OWL!!


And Owls are generally considered to be wise!
OWL could also be ONE WITH LOVE

PRESENCE

a
PERFECT
RELATIONSHIP with the
ETERNAL
SPACE
EXPRESSED
NOW and
CONTINUOUSLY
EVOLVING

PEACE
PERFECT
EASE
ABOUT
CONSCIOUS
EVOLUTION

BEING
BRINGING the
ETERNAL
INTO the
NOW with
GOD


Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Be Happy, Be the Change

Take care...be joyful, laugh, be happy - celebrate Your family, your life and Your friends, celebrate the Earth in all her glory, celebrate Your successes, feel the stillness, the peace, the love in Your life and reflect it back into the world around You always! 

You are blessed to be here at this time....You have a job to do - it is to remember who You truly are, to rediscover Your divinity and to reveal Your inner beauty to the Universe! 

Then, as Gandhi said, You can Be the change You wish to see in the World around You!

Best wishes to You all who have ventured, however fleetingly, into this little world of The Seagull Speaks!
In love and light!

Seagull

Saturday, October 2, 2010

An Extract from the Essene Gospel of Peace Book 2

"To lift your eyes to heaven

    When all mens' eyes are on the ground,

    Is not easy.

    To worship at the feet of the angels

    When all men worship only fame and riches,

    Is not easy.

    But the most difficult of all

    Is to think the thoughts of the angels,

    To speak the words of the angels,

    And to do as angels do. "


"As the son inherits the land of his father,

    So have we inherited a Holy Land

    From our Fathers.

    T'his land is not a field to be ploughed,

    But a place within us

    Where we may build our Holy Temple.

    And even as a temple must be raised,

    Stone by stone,

    So will I give to you those stones

    For the building of the Holy Temple;

    That which we have inherited

    From our Fathers,

    And their Fathers' Fathers. "

    
"The Holy Temple can be built

    Only with the ancient Communions,

    Those which are spoken,

    Those which are thought,

    And those which are lived.

    For if they are spoken only with the mouth,

    They are as a dead hive

    Which the bees have forsaken,

    That gives no more honey.

    Communions are a bridge

    Between man and the angels,

    And like a bridge,

    Can be built only with patience,

    Yea, even as the bridge over the river

    Is fashioned stone by stone,

    As they are found by the water's edge."


"And just as the roots of the tree

    Sink into the earth and are nourished,

    And the branches of the tree

    Raise their arms to heaven,

    So is man like the trunk of the tree,

    With his roots deep

    In the breast of his Earthly Mother,

    And his soul ascending

    To the bright stars of his Heavenly Father.

    And the roots of the tree

    Are the Angels of the Earthly Mother,

    And the branches of the tree

    Are the Angels of the Heavenly Father.

    And this is the sacred Tree of Life

    Which stands in the Sea of Eternity. "


"To lift your eyes to heaven

    When all mens' eyes are on the ground,

    Is not easy.

    To worship at the feet of the angels

    When all men worship only fame and riches,

    Is not easy.

    But the most difficult of all

    Is to think the thoughts of the angels,

    To speak the words of the angels,

    And to do as angels do. "