Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
“Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight–how to 
get from shore to food and back again,” writes author Richard Bach in this allegory about a unique bird named Jonathan Livingston Seagull. “For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.” Flight is indeed the metaphor that makes the story soar. Ultimately this is a fable about the importance of seeking a higher purpose in life, even if your flock, tribe, or neighborhood finds your ambition threatening. By not compromising his higher vision, Jonathan gets the ultimate payoff: transcendence. Ultimately, he learns the meaning of love and kindness.
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As A Man Thinketh
by James Allen
James Allen said that a person’s mind is like a garden, which may be 
intelligently cultivated, or allowed to run wild. Either way, the garden will bring forth. You will be awed by the relevance of the author’s thoughts and observations on the power of the mind, and mankind’s ability to control life’s outcomes by controlling what goes into it.
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