I found this album in mother's stuff after she died in 1981. She was my only parent growing up. After she died, I was living in her house alone. I was only 18. I played this album over and over on an old console record player my mom had also left behind. It was one of the most beautiful stories I'd every heard (before I read The Dhammapada). It gave me hope because I was already beginning to think differently than the "flock". My family deserted me soon after my mom died. Joined the military, found success blah blah blah. I haven't heard the album in years and thanks to this post, I can hear it again. Thank you.
I so agree with you... I read it as a teenager in the 80s - and listening to it now as a 47yr old mother and a wife - it has a lot more deeper meaning to me than all those (dreamy and brave and idealistic) years ago :-)
New years day,.. walked the dog to catch the sunrise, shared pastry with my dog and a dozen crows on the beach watching the red sky turn golden against the crashing waves breathing the faint smell of someones campfire and the saltyness of the air, ,.. walked home and found this, the story feels like it has always been part of my life. . my heart is full. One of the most perfect mornings of my life.
Such a exhilarating experience!!! I posted this on Face-book to try, and spread it around!!! Our ticket is to practice!!! not necessarily to travel about but to practice, and then maybe by some remote chance, through all the practicing we ourselves experience the spontaneous travel that the master was teaching to Johnathan!!! That Johnathan then went out and Mastered himself!!! You know they say that practice makes perfect, and I believe it myself!!! Lightworker and Energy Healer - Kelly!!! Have A Magical Day!!!
I'm 64 and listened to this on an LP. Helped me out a lot after I list sight in my left eye . Helped me 'see' that life is a struggle, but the overcoming is what makes it worth it. To go beyond your limits and aspire to achieve.
Who else cried after listening? It was supposed to let me sleep; not rouse me from thinking that I can be better than who I was yesterday. Thank you Sir for this wonderful audiobook.
I am crying DURING. My parents named me after this book and I am just listening to it now as a "hey this could be cool while I'm doing cardio" and mid-cardio I broke down in tears.
When I recorded the Chinese version, i had to stop for 2 or 3 times, couldn't stop my tears. I knew those points were my holes in my heart. Even when i am inputting these words here, tears in my eyes.
One of the things I've grown to love about this book is the exploration of Jonathon's struggle to realize himself as a seagull in the face of a rather unimaginative and dull society. He reaches such heights in his ability to fly, and in a sense attains a power that he never exerts over others - instead, he -teaches- fellow gulls who realize the oppression in the society towards their attempts to exert their individuality and become truly free. Jonathon illuminates the path for his like-minded friends, and as a potential leader, he nullifies what authority he would have therein. At the end of the book he cautions his students not to tell silly stories about him, like calling him a 'god', but instead - through humility that we all would do the world much good in embodying, states; "I am a seagull. I like to fly."
You are right. Jonathan saw, outwards, and beyond. I too rejected the bath my family had steared for me. I too, set out to live the life I wish for myself. Faced harsh words, and the eventual door slamed at my back. And like Jonathan, I knew I had made the right choice. Returning many years later, to my old home. There was nothing but a haggard spatterdd weeds and bushes. My parents were old, when i came into this world: and of a different time. Those of us who took flight like Jonathan, from the dulness, never once regretted that path we chose. How could we? For if we hadn't we have become our parents. Dull, lonely, and bitter of what might have been. I remember my father telling me with mistic eyes, stories of his past. Something inside he had awaken.
If I have this a bit twisted up I will make my apology now!!! Also I think it was said that there is no actual heaven, but instead there is just "Perfection" and "The Now Moment" that exists, and being perfect in this current moment in time? and also that perfect flight actually isn't flight at all, but actually is being there instantly no matter what the location, or time, or place, the embodied soul desires to travel/go to. Take Care!!! Lightworker and Energy Healer!!! Have a Magical Day!!! Kelly!!!
I utterly LOVE this. I first heard it decades ago whilst traveling the New Mexico Desert, deep in the dark of night; a radio station was playing it from a hundred miles away ... changed my very LIFE. Sir Richard Harris' performance here is absolutely magnificent. Perfection ...
I had a very dear friend years ago, when I was young, lead me to this story. They gave me a copy, and autographed it. They told me that one day, I would also find myself. I did for a time. And then I forgot all about it. It is time to find myself again. And fly .....
***** It is less than 10,000 words in its entirety; a mere novella. This is a book that changed my life when I read it as a child. Its words resonate in my life to this day. Also, do yourself a favor and get Neil Diamond's soundtrack to the TERRIBLE movie. Where the movie failed the book in every possible way, Neil nailed the soundtrack.
I met Richard Harris in Eckley, Pennsylvania in summer 1968 on the movie set of "The Molly Maguires". He slapped my back and shook the hand of my 14-year-old self. I was awestruck!
I was the nerdy bookworm, reading this in grade school, ignored by my teacher. Bullied by the other 5th grade kids. Thank you seagull. Taught me to live and love myself in my minds eye. Where it did me the most good.
Never read this as a child. After reading Illusions, I couldn’t resist it. It is definitely worth the time invested in this story. Very well written & read. Thank you to Richard Bach and Richard Harris, as well as the person(s) who uploaded this story.
My father gave this book to me to read for a book report 50 years ago. Listening to this audio book was very enjoyable, and I especially liked its dramatization. It brings back loving memories of his good taste and his own passion for learning that he wanted to instill in me. I loved this. ❤️
This is one of my favorite stories. I have not and will not conform. I present my best in everything that I do for no other reason than that is the way God built me.
when I was in my 30's, I bought jonathan livingston seagull book, and endlessly played Neil Diamond music, walked the beach and dreamed of flying. thanks to Richard harris, Neil diamond, and, of course, jonathan livingston seagull (my mentor) cause I am a non-conformist musician artist, grateful to you all.
:) I KNOW HOW Y'ALL FEEL.MY DAD HAD A "JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGUL" CASSETTE TAPE.HE PLAYED IT FOR ME EVERY NIGHT TIL I FELL ASLEEP STARTING AT 9YRS.I NEVER FORGOT IT.MY DAD DIED A FEW YRS AGO FROM LUNG/LIVER CANCER.NOW HE IS MY "JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGUL" I WROTE A POEM FOR HIM.I PUT JONATHAN IN IT.I JUST LISTENED TO IT & IT STILL BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES.PLUS I LUV "NEIL DIAMONDS". SONGS FOR THE STORY :)
My mother read me this book when I was 8. I remember being so grateful, because now I had a path to live by. Now, after integrating a heroes journey (the real JC, Mr. Joe Campbell) A NDE and a rockous shamanic road to Tibetan Buddhism, tonight I had my 8 year old daughter hear this... What it taught me and what I know, are exactly perfect, truly a timeless work of genius, like Buddha ... :>
I was at the beach and I was surrounded by seagulls just sitting watching me as I was grounding and spoke Light Language to the sea It was a magical experience I shared this with a friend who then commented and said You had High Council watching then sent me this video What a beautiful story to listen to and such truth Know thyself through transcendence, all things are possible only believe❤
Jonathan Livingston Seagull; The author was walking along the beach when he heard a voice, turned around, no one there, dismissed it, heard the voice again and realized it was a story. He started to type out the story as it came to him. The voice stopped for three years. Author did not know how to end the story. After the delay the voice appeared and completed the story. The message, true possibilities of the Mind with Love being the greatest experience. "Know Thy Self"
i wonder if he was in synch with that voice and "story" - his inner voice - and was yet to learn to catch up to the revelation that came 3 years later...
My parents bought this record as a gift for my grandmother and I have many fond memories of curling up on the floor and listening to this with the big wired headphones that plugged in to the turntable. I find my way back to this recording every few years. Today ended my longest gap. It’s been perhaps 10 years since I last heard it. Still hits me in the feels every time.
When i read this book i just had to read it again,and again. It is one of those stories that tells the story about the human condition. It is about those who,supposedly,don't fit in to the community because they are not understood as they are "different" from so called "normal" people.
I read this book so many times that when we had it for study in grade 8, I moaned. Mr Godfrey asked why. I told him I new it to well. So he pulled me in front and tried to embarrass me in before the class. So I told everyone to turn to page 1. I never missed a word and added alot of drama to it, I was very proud! I finished it before the class time ended and, yes, I got a pass😊
I am the exact 8000 the person to like, it may not be an achievement to others, but it's an achievement to me. also, this video teaches you to not become suppressed by the words of others and prove you can do better than they think you can (that's what I learned from this)
What a magnificent metaphor for human life... It is fear that makes our lives short... Eveything that limits us, we have to put aside..... The only true law is that which leads to freedom....Those of us who fly to new hights are here as instructors for the (human) flock...Thank you, Richard Bach, for this amazing wisdom, a poem for Humankind, or those who are ready to understand and explore what Life is truly all about beyond surviving...
What an amazingly story of self realization, I heard it for the first time at age 47, brings me back to when I was 7!!! It has re-awoken my inner child who always believed we are limitless beings if we would only just believe we are so! Thank-you Richard Bach!!!!
Fortunate are those who believe in that and have the grit to act on it and see it through. I just hope children and adults too who are inspired by this story don't ignore/overlook/disregard the fact that the path Jonathan seagull took needed a great deal of hard work too. Unfortunately, many youth misguidedly choose to challenge norms, but are not keen to put in the hard work to achieve any kind of success in their alternate lifestyle/choices. They believe themselves to be emulating Jonathan, but are only rebelling against time-tested traditional beliefs in order to be lazy and escape responsibility and accountability. This story should come with a mandatory 'master class.' 😄
not sure how i found myself here at this time but what irony. i, in my wheelchair with more than wings clipped found myself recently uninvited from a women's forum on FB. i excitedly wanted to share a new nutrition program that is actually helping reversal of ALS symptoms and how it's helping me, giving me hope for the first time in 8 yrs. i ,too wanted to share my success and how it's happening. they didn't believe me or wanted to take a chance that it may or may not help them. as for me i will fly again on two feet
Diane Vazquez SAULT STE. MARIE - Nice guys - and gals - often finish last when it comes to nursing home placement, argues the chair of the NorthEast Family Council Network. Nancy Johnson says individuals, either in hospital or at home and who volunteer to go into a long-term-care facility not necessarily of their choosing, will all too often be overlooked when a bed at a favoured facility actually becomes available. This doesn’t have to happen, she contends. Johnson said provisions exist within the current Long-Term Care Homes Act that ought to place such individuals in the ”exchange" category and first in line - behind veterans and readmissions - and ahead of others marked "crisis" or Category 1. “Exchange trumps crisis,” Johnson told The Sault Star in a recent interview. Johnson, whose group was responding to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s explanation of placement priority in a recent Sault Star story, prompted by the ongoing situation at Cedarwood Lodge, where 15 areas of non-compliance were pegged, prompting the province, in late March, to order a suspension of admissions there. The ministry says prioritization criteria that apply when a person is put on a wait list for his or her preferred long-term-care home are based primarily, but not exclusively, on a person's need for a bed. The ministry also said it encourages individuals, or their substitute decision makers, to discuss long-term-home placement with their Community Care Access Centre placement co-ordinator, covering such matters as transferring to another home, approximate wait times for transfers and how prioritization rules apply. Additionally, residents may wish to discuss the "potential applicability" of a transfer using the "exchange" category of prioritization. The province says that under such arrangements, if a CCAC placement co-ordinator becomes aware that a resident of one long-term-care home seeks admission to a second home, and a resident of the second long-term-care home seeks admission to the first, each resident can be placed in this category and the residents can be transferred. Johnson said the province is considering only a “narrow part” of the legislation, which involves the “exchange of warm bodies.” Citing Cedarwood, Johnson said individuals moved there temporarily should automatically be deemed "exchange,” and thereby given top priority for vacancies. Instead, they’re moved to the bottom of placement lists for preferred homes, in effect making Cedarwood and other such temporary placement destinations “literal dead ends,” she added. “Cedarwood becomes the sewer you have to crawl through to get to where you want to go,” said Johnson, adding the “effect” is not only “unjust (and) arguably illegal” but also slows resident flow. “We’ve said, ‘You don’t have to change the law, just tilt your practice a little bit. Don’t ignore that section that we can use to make it so,’” Johnson added. “If we can’t get (this) no-cost part of the solution operational in six years, we’re screwed. We’re not asking for money. We’re just asking you to re-read the legislation, change the practice and grease the wheels that flow through the system. “They’re ignoring that opportunity.” Recent figures from Community Care Access Centre, Cedarwood's placement co-ordinator, indicate that, in Sault Ste. Marie, there are 1,033 long-term-care-home beds with 553 waiting for initial placement and 609 on the placement waitlist. Utilizing the “exchange” option to its fullest will help unclog things, at least to a degree, Johnson said. “So, it’s sort of like a quick musical chairs within the system of the people already in it,” she added. “You’re still left with a vacancy for the person who is out there in the community waiting to get into the system.” According to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, three short-stay programs exist under the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007 (LTCHA) and Ontario Regulation 79/10 (Regulation), each having a specific purpose: - Convalescent Care Program (CCP): The maximum CCP stay that can be authorized by CCAC for an eligible person is up to 90 continuous days at one time, with a maximum of 90 days in a calendar year; - Respite Care Program (RP): The maximum RP stay that can be authorized by CCAC for an eligible person is up to 60 continuous days at one time with a maximum of 90 days over the calendar year; - Interim Bed Program (IBP): The maximum length of stay is 120 consecutive days for the first period. CCAC may authorize the extension of the applicant's admission for up to 60 consecutive days at a time. Concerns over Cedarwood placement were further fuelled when Sault Ste. Marie resident Anne Dyer spoke to The Sault Star about a family friend, close to 90 and unwell, who was placed in Cedarwood when the home opened in 2015. His preference is Extendicare Maple View, but the man remains at Cedarwood, the former F.J. Davey Home at 860 Great Northern Rd., while others, Dyer argued, appear to have jumped the queue. Johnson argues the end product of the province not taking into account this angle of “exchange” policy is that “trust is further broken down across the North.” Ultimately, residents, their families or substitute decision makers, must take firm stands, she said. “When they come to you in the hospital and say, ‘You have to come out or pay $1,000 a day or you have to go to this place,’ just say no,” Johnson said. “So, people who are savvy about this are saying no and continue to ‘block beds’”. “If the (government) would be just a little bit reasonable, people would do it.” j.ougler@sunmedia.ca On Twitter: @JeffreyOugler
All good wishes and thoughts to you Diane. I hope you are flying on your two feet as beautifully as Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I am sure your nutrition program is very effective and it is sad that others did not listen to you. You are amazing! God bless you!
Richard reads and presents this book with such care, emotion and beautiful speaking voice. He always reaches me. So thankful. Thank you, Richard Harris. 🇮🇪💕🎶
I read the book in the 1960's. Today I thought about it as I was reading an article on Parallel Worlds in Quantum Physics and opened TH-cam and typed in Jonathan Livingston Seagull and this came up. Now are there parallel worlds or not? Amazing story about not allowing the 'turkeys' to get you down and never giving up breaking the boundaries of what you can be. As someone said, "Nobody knows the best that he can be."
my mother gave all of us this book as children. she then gave us all a record of this recording. so i was raised with JLS's lessons. i am soo so grateful for all my mothers life's lessons. i miss her so.............
My grandfather who I didn’t know well died and left this book in his bedside table, apparently he read this book often. I think I know my grandfather more the more I read this book. Truly a treasure.
I listened to it again after it first came out. I lied down on the carpet in the living room, closed my eyes, and listened. It was wonderful then and even better now after all those years. I gained so much more this time. I loved the narration and the wonderful story.
“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.” Oliver Gaspirtz . . . . . AMEN! Will
I discovered this from a Versus battles forum arguing what the fastest being in fiction is. It’s now my go-to media when I’m struggling to fall asleep.
I have been listening to this album since 1979 and it always touches my heart. Many passages are permanently etched into my head. Thank you, Richard Bach, and Thank You, Richard Harris! BRAVISSIMO!!!
One of my best friends dad shared this with me as a book he would read to him when he was little. When I heard it I immediately purchased copies for my kids. He passed away this week and needed a little reminder. What a beautiful lesson to share with your babies.
Thank you so much. This book is apart of my college positive psychology class and I don't have the $$$ to get the book right now and I learn better listening to audio books over reading physical copies because I'm able to get my chores done while listening to the book.
Thankyou... I was given this book by a wise cousin for my 21st.. (29 year ago). I remember being so very touched and shared it with many friends.. I have not read it since because someone I lent it to must have needed the wise words more than me and it was never returned.. I have thoroughly enjoyed it being read to me all these years later... now will find another copy to once again share - with my children and my friends.. . Thankyou again..
I've listened to this on vinyl for over 40 years. Wore out my brothers copy andWas able to find two still in mint condition. Gave him one and kept one. I've lost count on how many times I listened to it. I prefer this narration
I remember hearing this for the first time back in the 70's, I think. I heard it on WCBS/FM 101.1, the Mark Summers Show. It started around 2 am and I loved it. The best version of this book, ever!
The Neil Diamond version was just perfect. When Richard Harris did the voice-over, it was just simply outstanding. He has the most amazing voice (listen to the Prophet) as well. Sir Richard, I / we applaud you. Know wonder why they knighted you for your efforts in the arts.
@@ziggystardust3060 a knighthood is a nice award, but Richard Bach was one of a kind, like Elon Musk, nobody else ever was or will be like them. Blessings for us that we lived in their times.☮❤🙋
@@grandmalovesmebest absolutely! It's inspiring to know people like this have been around in the last 50 years, and I like to think everyone has a touch of magic in them. 💫💥
@@solen67 : I read the book about the same time I read Psycho-Cybernetics. Helped me through a crisis of absolutely no self esteem. It stuck with me for forty years till I found this about three years ago. Now I listen twice a year and I seem to get more out of the audio than I did from the book.
This was a wonderful story, so glad it showed up in my feed. I've listened to my album for decades, but never saw the movie, or knew there was a book. Thanks to the narrator for sharing.
A Maverick story of exploring the unknowable & seemingly impossible and the trial and tribulations that go with it, ending in triumph an glorious afterlife. "Heaven is not a place or Time, Heaven is Perfection".A must read for every human. Exhilarating. Marten Heinrich Rehders.
JLS is in all of us. It is a life's story of struggle and triumph. It is a story of reticule and acceptance. It is like Steven Q Urkel in "Family Matters". He likes himself while others ostracize him. He doesn't build hate for them. He cares for them and shows it buy seizing the opportunity to help when those who reticule need it. We need more Steven Q Urkel's Today!!
This is still fantastic. 40 years later for and this is still fantastic. The world would be a better place, a safer place, a more peaceful place, and a more satisfying and rewarding place if everyone went the path of Jonathan. More so today than ever in my lifetime.
i only heard this the 1st time at 13 still bound by religion...its taken these 50 years to hear it - find it again and actually hear it. when the student is ready....the master appeareth on vinyl we had "the little prince" but for some reason i didn't get to listen although i read the book. another one i want to find to listen to and "get" this time around. the shackles of religion tend to stop the ears and blind the eyes, weighing down the soul. but we are all on a journey...
All i can say is .,,,WOW!! As soon as I started listening, I didn’t put it down till it ended. This is a wonderful mind elevating book. And it’s engaging to listen to - the narrator is amazing & you can’t help but visualize. It’s definitely a book i will listen to over & over & make recommendations. My brother was telling my sister and i that this was the book Kobe Bryant read that changed his life
WOW! Just on a hunch I thought I'd search for this amazing book as an audio book - I first read it many decades ago and never forgot it....and here it is and read by Richard Harris......BLISS!!
After so many years of reading this story, it is such a pleasure to listen to it again. That book left a lasting impression on me and I am revisiting it with a new broader vision. Thank you 🙏
Ty for sharing this... I read the book for the first time when I was about 10 years old. One of my all-time favorites! Having Richard Harris, one of my all-time favorite actors, read it was a new and doubly joyful experience.
One of the greatest books I have ever read, taught me a lot about myself and my abilities! A mentor of mine bought it for me. All books by Richard Bach are phenomenal and inspiring 🤔
Thank you for posting this. I think this is part of the reason I survived my childhood... I listened to this over and over as a child... This brings back such memories.
This is the first time I've listened to this book but I have read it over and over and over again from when I was a teenager. It helped so much then and even now.
when I was in my 30's, I bought jonathan livingston seagull book, and endlessly played Neil Diamond music, walked the beach and dreamed of flying. thanks to Richard harris, Neil diamond, and, of course, jonathan livingston seagull (my mentor) cause I am a non-conformist musician artist, grateful to you dear hearts.
I think this book formed a subtle inspiration for my life when I read it as a child some 42 years ago. My father learned that I could dispute many accepted popular beliefs and be right. Some of it was the arrogance of a teenager but I was bright, inventive and I researched hard. Follow the theme of this book and you can go a long long way.
Synchronistic answer for you Inspector: Richard Harris came to my attention when I was aged 25.He was staying at the Hibernian Hotel in Dublin Ireland ...circa mid 1975....I was just about to read/ hear Richard Bach's masterpiece: In Myanmar [Burma] in 2002 on a bus with Sayadaw U Thila Wunta, Steven KH Aung and others I received my first convincing glimpse of re-incarnation.
Hearing this for the first time as an eight year old, it has stayed with me since. Great piece of work. Uplifting and inspiring. Just love this. Thanks for sharing.
I have the original LP of this and listened to it over and over, one of those classic 70's tomes, that only could have come out of those times. Thanks for posting this.
That was beautiful. JLS was the first book I ever read and it was my father's favorite. I expanded my readings to other brilliant writers, like Ernest. Scott but this book made be believe that I could do anything...
I am an Indian and we are having this story in our malayalam textbook...... I got inspired by this.......I searched for it and finally reached here.....മലയാളി പൊളിയല്ലേ.........
It's a wonderful, amazing audio for perfect contemplation & meditation.My friend had an audio cassette. I had listened to it in 1987. It was always in my memory. Longing to listen to it again. Now got it as if God has answered me. A great presentation.
When I was 18 I had no desire to go to college and left the comfort of my parents home, my brothers, friends, the city I knew, and drove north through the redwoods of northern California and stopped only to be in nature, sleep, or because of the police due to speeding. I spent a day driving through San Francisco in a manual car that I had just learned to drive 3 days before the trip. Sometime shortly later at a beach miles above San Francisco on a cloudy day I was compelled by the flat and emptiness of the most lonely beach I'd ever seen. After getting lunch I looked for somewhere to purchase a tent but couldn't find one and took it as a sign that I wasn't meant to stay. Back now at the beach and parked, I took with me on the empty flat sand my laptop to use in the same way that men just 10 years before would have had to take a typewriter. After stepping around tons of purple gooey stuff I enjoyed then calling ectoplasm, I made my way to the one large rock and climbed atop to sit. As I am now, I sat archiving memories and everything beautiful I never wanted to forget. And just like Jonathan Seagull, I wished I had the knowledge I had then during my trip down memory lane. It was enough to call my friends back home, and the two weeks it took me to travel the distance to reach this beach was compressed into less than one day on my way back home. A day later I was with my people. Embraced, loved, and everything I had longed for to never change was already well in motion. That night there was no regret, no yearning, no lust, just love as I was truly in the present. My journey called for me to leave when I realized the needs of the people around me were well taken care of and all that was left were goodbyes, which had already gotten sentimental and full of the fog they often come with. As I drove away that night I exercised the muscle which is required to embrace life, a muscle that within each of us is always capable of being tried, tested, as well as growth. This is one of the stories I told the old man and father of the woman whose home I would live in while I explored a number of different things. My name is Jonathan and he would say "Like the Seagull". He was a kind and brilliant old man who was a pilot just like my dad, and shared with me an appreciation for art, wine, and history. So much so that I always enjoyed his company and looked forward to driving him every-time he'd ask me for a ride somewhere like it was some inconvenience. If you're a young guy driving a convertible and your passenger is an attractive female, you're hated but if you're a young guy driving a convertible with an old geeser who shares Einsteins eyebrows, you're envied. And rightfully so. Granted this was a car and not an expensive one, we were still in every sense of the word flying. I'd share with him what I wanted to achieve in life and as someone who had great success and faced adversity, I believed in him when he'd tell me I was capable of achieving anything I set out to do. It's almost 10 years later and those I love are growing in age. While today wasn't the most trying; it's in the peaceful days which I understand now to be full of opportunity which if not seized is wasted. It's taken years to realize this and rather than feel like the prodigal son, I choose to believe and reflect on my life like that of Richard Bach's Seagull. Normally I write a great deal and share close to none. However this mans memory and his relatives have touched me too profoundly not to. RIP R.A.
I first read this back in 1976, then purchased the LP album. So many years later, and I am comprehending even more layers of truth and beauty contained here.
I found this album in mother's stuff after she died in 1981. She was my only parent growing up. After she died, I was living in her house alone. I was only 18. I played this album over and over on an old console record player my mom had also left behind. It was one of the most beautiful stories I'd every heard (before I read The Dhammapada). It gave me hope because I was already beginning to think differently than the "flock". My family deserted me soon after my mom died. Joined the military, found success blah blah blah. I haven't heard the album in years and thanks to this post, I can hear it again. Thank you.
And how are you today? Just a stranger here, was touched by what you shared.
it was her gift to you always remember it
@@davejenkins1460 I will, always, my friend. My mom has made her presence known throughout my life. Thank you.
Beautiful, touching comment. Thank you.
Big hugs!😢
I scanned a giant qr code in a wall in São Paulo, Brazil, and it brought me here. Amazing
Teto that’s amazing thanks for sharing
Teto That’s brilliant, so so wonderful.. yes thank you for sharing that! 🙏👏
Wow! Crazy.... but cool....
OMG! that is amazing! I wish you could share a picture in the comments!
That's so rad! Now THAT is some graffiti I can get behind.
Haven't heard this since my twenties. Now, decades later, it holds the meaning that eluded me then. Thank you SO much!
I so agree with you... I read it as a teenager in the 80s - and listening to it now as a 47yr old mother and a wife - it has a lot more deeper meaning to me than all those (dreamy and brave and idealistic) years ago :-)
Truth
In 1973 this won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording.
New years day,.. walked the dog to catch the sunrise, shared pastry with my dog and a dozen crows on the beach watching the red sky turn golden against the crashing waves breathing the faint smell of someones campfire and the saltyness of the air, ,.. walked home and found this, the story feels like it has always been part of my life. . my heart is full. One of the most perfect mornings of my life.
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Such a exhilarating experience!!! I posted this on Face-book to try, and spread it around!!! Our ticket is to practice!!! not necessarily to travel about but to practice, and then maybe by some remote chance, through all the practicing we ourselves experience the spontaneous travel that the master was teaching to Johnathan!!! That Johnathan then went out and Mastered himself!!! You know they say that practice makes perfect, and I believe it myself!!! Lightworker and Energy Healer - Kelly!!! Have A Magical Day!!!
I read this in my teens....again and again....Now, at 62 I still cannot get enough of it. Thank you!
I'm 64 and listened to this on an LP. Helped me out a lot after I list sight in my left eye . Helped me 'see' that life is a struggle, but the overcoming is what makes it worth it. To go beyond your limits and aspire to achieve.
Who else cried after listening? It was supposed to let me sleep; not rouse me from thinking that I can be better than who I was yesterday. Thank you Sir for this wonderful audiobook.
I do every time I hear it, even now 2018 !!!!!
I am crying DURING. My parents named me after this book and I am just listening to it now as a "hey this could be cool while I'm doing cardio" and mid-cardio I broke down in tears.
When I recorded the Chinese version, i had to stop for 2 or 3 times, couldn't stop my tears. I knew those points were my holes in my heart. Even when i am inputting these words here, tears in my eyes.
"tomorrow mustn't be like today if progress isn't only an imaginary"- one of the philosophies that is left by GREAT Georgian Ilia Chavchavadze! 🇬🇪👏🏾
I cried😭
As a young boy Jonathan Livingston Seagull gave me a solid foundation that I could do anything and do it well -
One of the things I've grown to love about this book is the exploration of Jonathon's struggle to realize himself as a seagull in the face of a rather unimaginative and dull society. He reaches such heights in his ability to fly, and in a sense attains a power that he never exerts over others - instead, he -teaches- fellow gulls who realize the oppression in the society towards their attempts to exert their individuality and become truly free. Jonathon illuminates the path for his like-minded friends, and as a potential leader, he nullifies what authority he would have therein. At the end of the book he cautions his students not to tell silly stories about him, like calling him a 'god', but instead - through humility that we all would do the world much good in embodying, states; "I am a seagull. I like to fly."
You are right. Jonathan saw, outwards, and beyond. I too rejected the bath my family had steared for me. I too, set out to live the life I wish for myself. Faced harsh words, and the eventual door slamed at my back. And like Jonathan, I knew I had made the right choice. Returning many years later, to my old home. There was nothing but a haggard spatterdd weeds and bushes. My parents were old, when i came into this world: and of a different time. Those of us who took flight like Jonathan, from the dulness, never once regretted that path we chose. How could we? For if we hadn't we have become our parents. Dull, lonely, and bitter of what might have been. I remember my father telling me with mistic eyes, stories of his past. Something inside he had awaken.
If I have this a bit twisted up I will make my apology now!!! Also I think it was said that there is no actual heaven, but instead there is just "Perfection" and "The Now Moment" that exists, and being perfect in this current moment in time? and also that perfect flight actually isn't flight at all, but actually is being there instantly no matter what the location, or time, or place, the embodied soul desires to travel/go to. Take Care!!! Lightworker and Energy Healer!!! Have a Magical Day!!! Kelly!!!
I utterly LOVE this. I first heard it decades ago whilst traveling the New Mexico Desert, deep in the dark of night; a radio station was playing it from a hundred miles away ... changed my very LIFE.
Sir Richard Harris' performance here is absolutely magnificent.
Perfection ...
Read the book and then heard this. Read and heard this many times since.
"Keep on working on love", Chiang said. I still do.
Maybe 30+ year ago the radio played this...I was rapt.
I don't know where u got the , Sir Richard Harris, from. He had nothing of the sort. Richard had know time for that nonsense muck.
Jonathan Livingston's presence stands for the divinity of the evolving soul.
@fatarsemonkey lol no. It's to recognize that you are god. Doesn't even mention evil
@@saintstorm7 That is hilarious.
I had a very dear friend years ago, when I was young, lead me to this story. They gave me a copy, and autographed it. They told me that one day, I would also find myself. I did for a time. And then I forgot all about it. It is time to find myself again. And fly .....
Get a copy of the book and read it, all by yourself, book in hand, no one elses voice. This book is about listening to YOUR inner voice.
***** It is less than 10,000 words in its entirety; a mere novella. This is a book that changed my life when I read it as a child. Its words resonate in my life to this day.
Also, do yourself a favor and get Neil Diamond's soundtrack to the TERRIBLE movie. Where the movie failed the book in every possible way, Neil nailed the soundtrack.
144 pages in the complete version. Don't waste your time on the 21 page version.
+jafstraycat He did indeed, perfectly...
Yes 👍
Thank you, I needed to hear that. Confirmation for me to pick it up and read it from cover to cover.
I met Richard Harris in Eckley, Pennsylvania in summer 1968 on the movie set of "The Molly Maguires". He slapped my back and shook the hand of my 14-year-old self. I was awestruck!
I was the nerdy bookworm, reading this in grade school, ignored by my teacher. Bullied by the other 5th grade kids. Thank you seagull. Taught me to live and love myself in my minds eye. Where it did me the most good.
Never read this as a child. After reading Illusions, I couldn’t resist it. It is definitely worth the time invested in this story.
Very well written & read. Thank you to Richard Bach and Richard Harris, as well as the person(s) who uploaded this story.
My father gave this book to me to read for a book report 50 years ago. Listening to this audio book was very enjoyable, and I especially liked its dramatization. It brings back loving memories of his good taste and his own passion for learning that he wanted to instill in me. I loved this. ❤️
This is one of my favorite stories. I have not and will not conform. I present my best in everything that I do for no other reason than that is the way God built me.
I heard of this story as a child, but only now tracked it down, so many years later. But after listening, I feel like a child again.
Richard Harris reads so well! What a voice! PERFECTION!
when I was in my 30's, I bought jonathan livingston seagull book, and endlessly played Neil Diamond music, walked the beach and dreamed of flying. thanks to Richard harris, Neil diamond, and, of course, jonathan livingston seagull (my mentor) cause I am a non-conformist musician artist, grateful to you all.
Me too...
Sunday pavlock , glad you saw comments, and let us fly, soar and dream on and on, forever!
James Langan
:) I KNOW HOW Y'ALL FEEL.MY DAD HAD A "JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGUL" CASSETTE TAPE.HE PLAYED IT FOR ME EVERY NIGHT TIL I FELL ASLEEP STARTING AT 9YRS.I NEVER FORGOT IT.MY DAD DIED A FEW YRS AGO FROM LUNG/LIVER CANCER.NOW HE IS MY "JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGUL" I WROTE A POEM FOR HIM.I PUT JONATHAN IN IT.I JUST LISTENED TO IT & IT STILL BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES.PLUS I LUV "NEIL DIAMONDS". SONGS FOR THE STORY :)
@@dawnieoberlies911 Prayers for you & esp your Dad .
Never ever give up on your dreams.
The motto of the whole story.
Never give up
The universe directed me here this morning in my daily quest for understanding and enlightenment!
You need to seek out Jesus Christ. He is the ONLY one who can SAVE you. God bless you my friend.
The book, movie and music changed my life as a young teen because I understood Jonathan as I understood myself
same man... same
Jonathan Livingston seagull
And? I am aware of Jonathan's full name :-)@@SOUTHERN_LADY
Brilliant book brought to life by Richard Harris.
My mother read me this book when I was 8. I remember being so grateful, because now I had a path to live by. Now, after integrating a heroes journey (the real JC, Mr. Joe Campbell) A NDE and a rockous shamanic road to Tibetan Buddhism, tonight I had my 8 year old daughter hear this... What it taught me and what I know, are exactly perfect, truly a timeless work of genius, like Buddha ... :>
I was at the beach and I was surrounded by seagulls just sitting watching me as I was grounding and spoke Light Language to the sea It was a magical experience
I shared this with a friend who then commented and said You had High Council watching then sent me this video
What a beautiful story to listen to and such truth
Know thyself through transcendence, all things are possible only believe❤
Beautiful music! It has haunted me since I was a child in the 70's. So thankful to have found this!
The best A huge thank you to Richard Harris and Neil Diamond.....To me it means everything in life...i love this !!!!
Jonathan Livingston Seagull; The author was walking along the beach when he heard a voice, turned around, no one there, dismissed it, heard the voice again and realized it was a story. He started to type out the story as it came to him. The voice stopped for three years. Author did not know how to end the story. After the delay the voice appeared and completed the story.
The message, true possibilities of the Mind with Love being the greatest experience. "Know Thy Self"
Remember this being mentioned in a book called "strange unsolved mysteries".
i wonder if he was in synch with that voice and "story" - his inner voice - and was yet to learn to catch up to the revelation that came 3 years later...
Some say it was a devil
@@pixelatedbird4493 Only the devil would say that...lol.
@@801oap the devil possesed the author to type it.
I read the book as a 17 year old. I adore the book and I have this LP, very scratched, over-played and adored. Thank you very much for uploading this.
I had that book & LP. opened a whole new room in my mind. is it on a CD now I wonder?
My parents bought this record as a gift for my grandmother and I have many fond memories of curling up on the floor and listening to this with the big wired headphones that plugged in to the turntable. I find my way back to this recording every few years. Today ended my longest gap. It’s been perhaps 10 years since I last heard it. Still hits me in the feels every time.
When i read this book i just had to read it again,and again. It is one of those stories that tells the story about the human condition. It is about those who,supposedly,don't fit in to the community because they are not understood as they are "different" from so called "normal" people.
Open to personal interpretation and each one is probably correct.
I see it more about being a free thinker and waking "a road less travelled".
@Talat Malik the reluctant messiah...sublime
I read this book so many times that when we had it for study in grade 8, I moaned.
Mr Godfrey asked why.
I told him I new it to well.
So he pulled me in front and tried to embarrass me in before the class.
So I told everyone to turn to page 1.
I never missed a word and added alot of drama to it, I was very proud!
I finished it before the class time ended and, yes, I got a pass😊
I am the exact 8000 the person to like, it may not be an achievement to others, but it's an achievement to me. also, this video teaches you to not become suppressed by the words of others and prove you can do better than they think you can (that's what I learned from this)
My dad owned this album and I listened as a small child...I'll never forget. Ever. Thank you Dad.
What a magnificent metaphor for human life... It is fear that makes our lives short... Eveything that limits us, we have to put aside..... The only true law is that which leads to freedom....Those of us who fly to new hights are here as instructors for the (human) flock...Thank you, Richard Bach, for this amazing wisdom, a poem for Humankind, or those who are ready to understand and explore what Life is truly all about beyond surviving...
What an amazingly story of self realization, I heard it for the first time at age 47, brings me back to when I was 7!!! It has re-awoken my inner child who always believed we are limitless beings if we would only just believe we are so! Thank-you Richard Bach!!!!
Fortunate are those who believe in that and have the grit to act on it and see it through. I just hope children and adults too who are inspired by this story don't ignore/overlook/disregard the fact that the path Jonathan seagull took needed a great deal of hard work too.
Unfortunately, many youth misguidedly choose to challenge norms, but are not keen to put in the hard work to achieve any kind of success in their alternate lifestyle/choices. They believe themselves to be emulating Jonathan, but are only rebelling against time-tested traditional beliefs in order to be lazy and escape responsibility and accountability.
This story should come with a mandatory 'master class.' 😄
It's my most beloved and inspirational poem since 1973.
not sure how i found myself here at this time but what irony. i, in my wheelchair with more than wings clipped found myself recently uninvited from a women's forum on FB. i excitedly wanted to share a new nutrition program that is actually helping reversal of ALS symptoms and how it's helping me, giving me hope for the first time in 8 yrs. i ,too wanted to share my success and how it's happening. they didn't believe me or wanted to take a chance that it may or may not help them. as for me i will fly again on two feet
Diane Vazquez SAULT STE. MARIE - Nice guys - and gals - often finish last when it comes to nursing home placement, argues the chair of the NorthEast Family Council Network.
Nancy Johnson says individuals, either in hospital or at home and who volunteer to go into a long-term-care facility not necessarily of their choosing, will all too often be overlooked when a bed at a favoured facility actually becomes available.
This doesn’t have to happen, she contends.
Johnson said provisions exist within the current Long-Term Care Homes Act that ought to place such individuals in the ”exchange" category and first in line - behind veterans and readmissions - and ahead of others marked "crisis" or Category 1.
“Exchange trumps crisis,” Johnson told The Sault Star in a recent interview.
Johnson, whose group was responding to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s explanation of placement priority in a recent Sault Star story, prompted by the ongoing situation at Cedarwood Lodge, where 15 areas of non-compliance were pegged, prompting the province, in late March, to order a suspension of admissions there.
The ministry says prioritization criteria that apply when a person is put on a wait list for his or her preferred long-term-care home are based primarily, but not exclusively, on a person's need for a bed.
The ministry also said it encourages individuals, or their substitute decision makers, to discuss long-term-home placement with their Community Care Access Centre placement co-ordinator, covering such matters as transferring to another home, approximate wait times for transfers and how prioritization rules apply. Additionally, residents may wish to discuss the "potential applicability" of a transfer using the "exchange" category of prioritization. The province says that under such arrangements, if a CCAC placement co-ordinator becomes aware that a resident of one long-term-care home seeks admission to a second home, and a resident of the second long-term-care home seeks admission to the first, each resident can be placed in this category and the residents can be transferred.
Johnson said the province is considering only a “narrow part” of the legislation, which involves the “exchange of warm bodies.”
Citing Cedarwood, Johnson said individuals moved there temporarily should automatically be deemed "exchange,” and thereby given top priority for vacancies. Instead, they’re moved to the bottom of placement lists for preferred homes, in effect making Cedarwood and other such temporary placement destinations “literal dead ends,” she added.
“Cedarwood becomes the sewer you have to crawl through to get to where you want to go,” said Johnson, adding the “effect” is not only “unjust (and) arguably illegal” but also slows resident flow.
“We’ve said, ‘You don’t have to change the law, just tilt your practice a little bit. Don’t ignore that section that we can use to make it so,’” Johnson added.
“If we can’t get (this) no-cost part of the solution operational in six years, we’re screwed. We’re not asking for money. We’re just asking you to re-read the legislation, change the practice and grease the wheels that flow through the system.
“They’re ignoring that opportunity.”
Recent figures from Community Care Access Centre, Cedarwood's placement co-ordinator, indicate that, in Sault Ste. Marie, there are 1,033 long-term-care-home beds with 553 waiting for initial placement and 609 on the placement waitlist.
Utilizing the “exchange” option to its fullest will help unclog things, at least to a degree, Johnson said.
“So, it’s sort of like a quick musical chairs within the system of the people already in it,” she added. “You’re still left with a vacancy for the person who is out there in the community waiting to get into the system.”
According to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, three short-stay programs exist under the Long-Term Care Homes Act, 2007 (LTCHA) and Ontario Regulation 79/10 (Regulation), each having a specific purpose:
- Convalescent Care Program (CCP): The maximum CCP stay that can be authorized by CCAC for an eligible person is up to 90 continuous days at one time, with a maximum of 90 days in a calendar year;
- Respite Care Program (RP): The maximum RP stay that can be authorized by CCAC for an eligible person is up to 60 continuous days at one time with a maximum of 90 days over the calendar year;
- Interim Bed Program (IBP): The maximum length of stay is 120 consecutive days for the first period. CCAC may authorize the extension of the applicant's admission for up to 60 consecutive days at a time.
Concerns over Cedarwood placement were further fuelled when Sault Ste. Marie resident Anne Dyer spoke to The Sault Star about a family friend, close to 90 and unwell, who was placed in Cedarwood when the home opened in 2015. His preference is Extendicare Maple View, but the man remains at Cedarwood, the former F.J. Davey Home at 860 Great Northern Rd., while others, Dyer argued, appear to have jumped the queue.
Johnson argues the end product of the province not taking into account this angle of “exchange” policy is that “trust is further broken down across the North.”
Ultimately, residents, their families or substitute decision makers, must take firm stands, she said.
“When they come to you in the hospital and say, ‘You have to come out or pay $1,000 a day or you have to go to this place,’ just say no,” Johnson said. “So, people who are savvy about this are saying no and continue to ‘block beds’”.
“If the (government) would be just a little bit reasonable, people would do it.”
j.ougler@sunmedia.ca
On Twitter: @JeffreyOugler
Diane Vazquez I hope you're doing well.
Diane Vazquez whatever the mind can percieve it can achieve
@Diane Vazquez I am so sorry they rudely shut you out. You are amazing!! Bless you
All good wishes and thoughts to you Diane. I hope you are flying on your two feet as beautifully as Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I am sure your nutrition program is very effective and it is sad that others did not listen to you. You are amazing! God bless you!
Richard reads and presents this book with such care, emotion and beautiful speaking voice. He always reaches me. So thankful. Thank you, Richard Harris. 🇮🇪💕🎶
I read the book in the 1960's. Today I thought about it as I was reading an article on Parallel Worlds in Quantum Physics and opened TH-cam and typed in Jonathan Livingston Seagull and this came up. Now are there parallel worlds or not? Amazing story about not allowing the 'turkeys' to get you down and never giving up breaking the boundaries of what you can be. As someone said, "Nobody knows the best that he can be."
my mother gave all of us this book as children. she then gave us all a record of this recording. so i was raised with JLS's lessons. i am soo so grateful for all my mothers life's lessons. i miss her so.............
My grandfather who I didn’t know well died and left this book in his bedside table, apparently he read this book often. I think I know my grandfather more the more I read this book. Truly a treasure.
I listened to it again after it first came out. I lied down on the carpet in the living room, closed my eyes, and listened. It was wonderful then and even better now after all those years. I gained so much more this time. I loved the narration and the wonderful story.
I had the book and the album. Richards Harris's voice is so mesmerizing!
“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.”
Oliver Gaspirtz
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I discovered this from a Versus battles forum arguing what the fastest being in fiction is.
It’s now my go-to media when I’m struggling to fall asleep.
Jonathan the GOAT
I have been listening to this album since 1979 and it always touches my heart. Many passages are permanently etched into my head. Thank you, Richard Bach, and Thank You, Richard Harris! BRAVISSIMO!!!
One of my best friends dad shared this with me as a book he would read to him when he was little. When I heard it I immediately purchased copies for my kids. He passed away this week and needed a little reminder. What a beautiful lesson to share with your babies.
Thank you so much. This book is apart of my college positive psychology class and I don't have the $$$ to get the book right now and I learn better listening to audio books over reading physical copies because I'm able to get my chores done while listening to the book.
Thankyou... I was given this book by a wise cousin for my 21st.. (29 year ago). I remember being so very touched and shared it with many friends.. I have not read it since because someone I lent it to must have needed the wise words more than me and it was never returned.. I have thoroughly enjoyed it being read to me all these years later... now will find another copy to once again share - with my children and my friends.. . Thankyou again..
I've listened to this on vinyl for over 40 years. Wore out my brothers copy andWas able to find two still in mint condition. Gave him one and kept one.
I've lost count on how many times I listened to it. I prefer this narration
I had this on cassette tape back when I was a child, probably 53 years ago I loved it then, I still like it now.
I am a transformed individual, thanks to the person that passed this awesome piece to me and others many years ago. I am grateful! ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
I remember hearing this for the first time back in the 70's, I think. I heard it on WCBS/FM 101.1, the Mark Summers Show. It started around 2 am and I loved it. The best version of this book, ever!
I listen to your this audibook every day. Thanks for sharing, sir.
The Neil Diamond version was just perfect. When Richard Harris did the voice-over, it was just simply outstanding. He has the most amazing voice (listen to the Prophet) as well. Sir Richard, I / we applaud you. Know wonder why they knighted you for your efforts in the arts.
I so so agree !!!!!
He was Irish, not British. Never knighted.
@@NoGoodBoyo1000 Yes he was. In 1985 the Queen of Denmark knighted him.
@@ziggystardust3060 a knighthood is a nice award, but Richard Bach was one of a kind, like Elon Musk, nobody else ever was or will be like them. Blessings for us that we lived in their times.☮❤🙋
@@grandmalovesmebest absolutely! It's inspiring to know people like this have been around in the last 50 years, and I like to think everyone has a touch of magic in them. 💫💥
Great message! Thanks Richard Harris! RIP
Absolutely meant for Richard Harris' voice. Beautiful reading.
Thank you Richard Harris and Neil Diamond you do a great job about the book. Very inspirational to everybody.. Amazing !!!!
I heard this for the first time in the late 70's. As a lp. I have been looking for this for years . Thank you for having it here.
I come back to it many times. just loving it !
@@solen67 : I read the book about the same time I read Psycho-Cybernetics. Helped me through a crisis of absolutely no self esteem. It stuck with me for forty years till I found this about three years ago. Now I listen twice a year and I seem to get more out of the audio than I did from the book.
This was a wonderful story, so glad it showed up in my feed. I've listened to my album for decades, but never saw the movie, or knew there was a book. Thanks to the narrator for sharing.
A Maverick story of exploring the unknowable & seemingly impossible and the trial and tribulations that go with it, ending in triumph an glorious afterlife. "Heaven is not a place or Time, Heaven is Perfection".A must read for every human. Exhilarating. Marten Heinrich Rehders.
JLS is in all of us. It is a life's story of struggle and triumph. It is a story of reticule and acceptance. It is like Steven Q Urkel in "Family Matters". He likes himself while others ostracize him. He doesn't build hate for them. He cares for them and shows it buy seizing the opportunity to help when those who reticule need it. We need more Steven Q Urkel's Today!!
This is still fantastic. 40 years later for and this is still fantastic. The world would be a better place, a safer place, a more peaceful place, and a more satisfying and rewarding place if everyone went the path of Jonathan. More so today than ever in my lifetime.
I remember listening to this on vinyl as a child with my father. it is a great story.
Frank ragsdill my father also had me listen to this with him. He just passed and now am I learning what he wanted for me to know.
I found two mint, new condition, albums. Kept one gave the other to my brother
Me too
I am 30 just ground this and the first thing I thought when finishing this was how I must share this with my 6yo son.
i only heard this the 1st time at 13 still bound by religion...its taken these 50 years to hear it - find it again and actually hear it. when the student is ready....the master appeareth
on vinyl we had "the little prince" but for some reason i didn't get to listen although i read the book. another one i want to find to listen to and "get" this time around. the shackles of religion tend to stop the ears and blind the eyes, weighing down the soul. but we are all on a journey...
All i can say is .,,,WOW!! As soon as I started listening, I didn’t put it down till it ended. This is a wonderful mind elevating book. And it’s engaging to listen to - the narrator is amazing & you can’t help but visualize. It’s definitely a book i will listen to over & over & make recommendations. My brother was telling my sister and i that this was the book Kobe Bryant read that changed his life
WOW! Just on a hunch I thought I'd search for this amazing book as an audio book - I first read it many decades ago and never forgot it....and here it is and read by Richard Harris......BLISS!!
After so many years of reading this story, it is such a pleasure to listen to it again. That book left a lasting impression on me and I am revisiting it with a new broader vision. Thank you 🙏
Ty for sharing this... I read the book for the first time when I was about 10 years old. One of my all-time favorites! Having Richard Harris, one of my all-time favorite actors, read it was a new and doubly joyful experience.
This is a story that all kids, err... need to hear this - listen to this and discuss it with their elders, whomever that may be. Peace.
My first time hearing this superior reading. I am awed.
One of the greatest books I have ever read, taught me a lot about myself and my abilities! A mentor of mine bought it for me.
All books by Richard Bach are phenomenal and inspiring 🤔
Thank you for posting this. I think this is part of the reason I survived my childhood... I listened to this over and over as a child... This brings back such memories.
This is the first time I've listened to this book but I have read it over and over and over again from when I was a teenager. It helped so much then and even now.
I heard this years ago and I've been looking for it for a long time. Thanks much for the upload
No words for the beauty that the music and Richard's voice and narration bring to my favorite avatar.
I read this book when it came out in the 70s.
Today it means just as more then as it does now.
Richard Harris has done this magnificent 👏
The first book I ever read. Thank you Mrs Ninny for the loan of this book. Rest in peace.
when I was in my 30's, I bought jonathan livingston seagull book, and endlessly played Neil Diamond music, walked the beach and dreamed of flying. thanks to Richard harris, Neil diamond, and, of course, jonathan livingston seagull (my mentor) cause I am a non-conformist musician artist, grateful to you dear hearts.
I think this book formed a subtle inspiration for my life when I read it as a child some 42 years ago. My father learned that I could dispute many accepted popular beliefs and be right. Some of it was the arrogance of a teenager but I was bright, inventive and I researched hard. Follow the theme of this book and you can go a long long way.
The most INSPIRATIONAL booklet I've ever read in my hardly 80 years of life.
I wonder if Richard Bach is a Theravada-Buddhist.
A deliverer ☸️
Synchronistic answer for you Inspector: Richard Harris came to my attention when I was aged 25.He was staying at the Hibernian Hotel in Dublin Ireland ...circa mid 1975....I was just about to read/ hear Richard Bach's masterpiece: In Myanmar [Burma] in 2002 on a bus with Sayadaw U Thila Wunta, Steven KH Aung and others I received my first convincing glimpse of re-incarnation.
This was THE must-read book for students learning to skydive in the '70s. Learning to fly is much more of a mental process than a physical one.
Could not have chosen a better narrator. Rest in Peace my Friend.
Beautiful narration. I was moved to tears.
Hearing this for the first time as an eight year old, it has stayed with me since. Great piece of work. Uplifting and inspiring. Just love this. Thanks for sharing.
Love this story. Very inspirational.
I have the original LP of this and listened to it over and over, one of those classic 70's tomes, that only could have come out of those times. Thanks for posting this.
Sounds lovely especially narrated by Richard Harris. Thank you very much ;-)
That was beautiful. JLS was the first book I ever read and it was my father's favorite. I expanded my readings to other brilliant writers, like Ernest. Scott but this book made be believe that I could do anything...
residentflea Ernest is great. Read the one where he goes to camp... even better than the movie...
residentflea can you tell me the moral of the story?
I am an Indian and we are having this story in our malayalam textbook...... I got inspired by this.......I searched for it and finally reached here.....മലയാളി പൊളിയല്ലേ.........
With all my heart mind and energy, I truly appreciate this gift.
A beautifully written book is narrated wonderfully now. I read it many times when I was young.
Very inspiring for people who are looking for a meaning in life
It's a wonderful, amazing audio for perfect contemplation & meditation.My friend had an audio cassette. I had listened to it in 1987. It was always in my memory. Longing to listen to it again. Now got it as if God has answered me.
A great presentation.
So many times I've listened to this. Even on the Pier in Lake Worth. So many years ago...……….....
Thank you so much for posting this. I remember listening to this as a child and LOVING it!
When I was 18 I had no desire to go to college and left the comfort of my parents home, my brothers, friends, the city I knew, and drove north through the redwoods of northern California and stopped only to be in nature, sleep, or because of the police due to speeding. I spent a day driving through San Francisco in a manual car that I had just learned to drive 3 days before the trip. Sometime shortly later at a beach miles above San Francisco on a cloudy day I was compelled by the flat and emptiness of the most lonely beach I'd ever seen. After getting lunch I looked for somewhere to purchase a tent but couldn't find one and took it as a sign that I wasn't meant to stay.
Back now at the beach and parked, I took with me on the empty flat sand my laptop to use in the same way that men just 10 years before would have had to take a typewriter. After stepping around tons of purple gooey stuff I enjoyed then calling ectoplasm, I made my way to the one large rock and climbed atop to sit. As I am now, I sat archiving memories and everything beautiful I never wanted to forget. And just like Jonathan Seagull, I wished I had the knowledge I had then during my trip down memory lane. It was enough to call my friends back home, and the two weeks it took me to travel the distance to reach this beach was compressed into less than one day on my way back home.
A day later I was with my people. Embraced, loved, and everything I had longed for to never change was already well in motion. That night there was no regret, no yearning, no lust, just love as I was truly in the present. My journey called for me to leave when I realized the needs of the people around me were well taken care of and all that was left were goodbyes, which had already gotten sentimental and full of the fog they often come with. As I drove away that night I exercised the muscle which is required to embrace life, a muscle that within each of us is always capable of being tried, tested, as well as growth.
This is one of the stories I told the old man and father of the woman whose home I would live in while I explored a number of different things. My name is Jonathan and he would say "Like the Seagull".
He was a kind and brilliant old man who was a pilot just like my dad, and shared with me an appreciation for art, wine, and history. So much so that I always enjoyed his company and looked forward to driving him every-time he'd ask me for a ride somewhere like it was some inconvenience. If you're a young guy driving a convertible and your passenger is an attractive female, you're hated but if you're a young guy driving a convertible with an old geeser who shares Einsteins eyebrows, you're envied. And rightfully so. Granted this was a car and not an expensive one, we were still in every sense of the word flying. I'd share with him what I wanted to achieve in life and as someone who had great success and faced adversity, I believed in him when he'd tell me I was capable of achieving anything I set out to do.
It's almost 10 years later and those I love are growing in age. While today wasn't the most trying; it's in the peaceful days which I understand now to be full of opportunity which if not seized is wasted. It's taken years to realize this and rather than feel like the prodigal son, I choose to believe and reflect on my life like that of Richard Bach's Seagull. Normally I write a great deal and share close to none. However this mans memory and his relatives have touched me too profoundly not to. RIP R.A.
Jonathan Howard..........HUH .......what the heck.
Jonathan Howard thank you for sharing 💛
Amazing story, thankyou.
My memory is riding a motorcycle through the redwoods and sleeping on the ground. Those were the days.
I first read this back in 1976, then purchased the LP album. So many years later, and I am comprehending even more layers of truth and beauty contained here.
I cry all during, every time I listen. It is a spiritual experience