( 1:22 AM ) shut up christine
How much more there is now to living! Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there’s reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!
The trick, according to Chiang, was for Jonathan to stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body that had a forty-two inch wingspan and performance that could be plotted on a chart.
The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.
And he knew with practiced ease that he was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
from Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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