I know you are very well for you are resting in Our Loving Father’s arms:). All I wanted to say is thank you: God has used you to spread His message of infinitely tender Love for all of us and The Alchemist is one of the reasons for which my faith has grown stronger and bolder, thank God. God bless you and yours forever:). You rock:):)!!!

(Izem:it’s a noun come from “Thamazigth:Kabyle” means lion and we use it to tell how much the personne is courage and dicisive or also to tell that he is a real man )

Just good wishes and a reminder that we have choices as individuals and groups, just as the protagonists in the epic poem Mahabharata had and made those choices…

A few words
Why then am i blessed ,
With love and luxury untold ?
for I follow destiny
A path foretold !

In many of your letters people seek answers , In Hinduism The philosophy says that we are programed as a microchip , over many lives . Our short time span cannot reveal it all in one lifetime,these laws of karma , of the deeds we do or the thoughts we think . But relive them we will , in some life time or another. The only choice we have is to accept each situation as a divine gift and pray for the strength to be able to bear it smilingly. It is these smiles that will bring to us the positive energies to see and choose the right path

as of now im still searching why we have to felt loneliness..the idea isn’t clear yet..im just an ordinary person with nothing to boast about..im about to leave our company because my boss does not like me neither..im lonely and im hurt for the truth it brought…but somehow your blog made me relief..thanks..Godbless and more power..

I don’t believe that we are ever lonely. The ever vibrating universe and its presence encompasses up. Every bit of our being is something-its someone. Even if in the whole world we walk alone, its only our thoughts that can make us “feel lonely”…but we truly can never be lonely

Would there be meaning in a gestures of apparent benevolence while incredible ugliness of design guides that gesture… Would it be civilization or its anti-thesis?

Would that gesture count as hard evidence or the fathomless ugliness that guides it amidst the knowledge of it?

In the face of such depravity, emotions are privileged luxuries. The difference between civilizations or the barbaric and the civilized. Very true.

And would a road travelled, that is full of such gestures, be a road within a civilization or its anti-thesis?

Just wondering, about the nature of meanings of suchroads most championed by the politics of depravity,in the lands that house such roads…and the damage to politics of emancipation in other lands with perhaps better roads!

The nature of meaning…

As always your words go straight to my heart and make me stop and think about your ideas and how they pertain to my life and of those around me. I smiled when I read this blog and also felt emotional about my own lonliness and the changes of the seasons and how with each passing season and year, nature is never the same and we are never the same again. I have always felt that way. I,too, choose to be alone sometimes and feel those times feed my soul and help me to process things in my life. The saddest part of lonliness to me is when I am surrounded by people and still feel lonley. I just wanted to say thank you for your beautiful words and for all your books. I have read each one. They seem to have come to me when I needed the message or the lesson they taught. They have changed my life and I just want to thank you for that.

I wish for you and your family a glorious and meaningful New Year.

Laura

Your message means a lot to me on this last night of 2006. You see, your existence means a lot to us. Without you, we would not think about what you say, we would not react. So: even in your worst moments you are an inspiration!
Dear Katy, these moments of pain, incredible emptiness and fear will disappear. I know. Since you take the effort and have the courage to write your messages, I know you will survive. I do not have all the wisdom, I just experience life to the fullest. And you will know life only when you have experienced the bottem, the deepest fall.
I think you are an incredible courageous person because you share your thoughts here in this log. You put yourself into the light. After 9 months… I think your words are written without any mask.
If you have experienced this bottem, you can see what is really important and that the world continues to turn no matter what we, humans, think or do.

Men know how to love. But women and men are different, that’s what makes it so beautiful. Female and male forces cannot live without each other. Earth, which is a female element, the Great Mother, she will die without the Sun. Life will die without the male inspiration, without male fire. Without this fire, there will be an eternal winter. Standing still in the silence for ever. So thank God, the Sun is born again every year.

At a certain time in my life, I turned the cross, very consiously. I did not believe in anything at all anymore. I was angry. I always did what I believed I had to do. I did everything for ‘my man’. I was everything for ‘my man’. So he could use me, like I was nothing. With my magic I would become any person he wanted me to be. I had no right to existence. I was his.
I totally lost my self respect. I wanted to die eventually. Because I was nothing.
I do not think God wants a woman to do this. I was born, so I have a right to live! Never forget your birthright.
I do not think of myself as a very strong person, because I know many fears and anxieties, very often I feel vulnerable. I wanted to hide myself, always be safe in my little dark shelter. But a writer named Paulo Coelho wrote about Love and Courage. I hated God, because I always believed I had to be perfect, I had to be soft, I had to suffer and be holy. I was about to become insane. But by reading the books of Coelho, I learned that there was a way. To fight a good fight! This has nothing to do with holiness. This has to do with courage! It’s okay to feel fear. To feel anger. To feel whatever you feel. Because you are human. Living with your heart – that’s what counts. So, even when you are in your darkest moments, you are still with God, because you live with your heart. You feel pain, you suffer, by heart. So God is with you. Because you live. To the fullest. You feel, my dear Katy. So: you live.

You are in my heart. Because I know where you are in this moment in time. And we all need someone who loves us. You will survive, my dear Katy. I know what it is to be left all alone. But you know, you matter to me. I am the youngest child too. I felt like a burden. No right to live.
But you matter, because you live.
Please feel safe. Fight. Do not give up. You are not alone in this world.

I felt hopeless. Now, I have my fears under control, I learn. I put my mantle on, to protect myself. I’ve red the books of Coelho and learn how to feel safe and learn about courage. And please listen to music (for instance ‘What’s going on, Marvin Gay). I survived on hope. Never give up, Katy.

Love,
Mirjam

may the new year bring you much joy,
Pen

Wish you all a very happy New Year “

Thank you for your prayers it’s most appreciated, and if God does exists then he does not hear me but I hope he hears your parayer Debby. I must admit that its like living in limbo, I dont want to leave(die) but I dont want to stay(live)… I’m holding on, I’m not sure for how long but I dont give inn so easly. Writing is what keeps me alive and when I stop writing I will Leave(die)
Thank you very much for your kind thoughts Debby,

‘May the gods keep you always among the living and away from the dead’.

Katy T.Australia

It gives me comfort as I read your words of wisdom, thank you for reminding me/us all that everything has an end Great and smale, good and bad… Thank you for existing in this world, for sharing such words of love and truth with the ones that have forgotten about the simplisity of our life as the sun risese till it sets… I do believe that we are born as the sun is up early morning and we die as the sun sets(we are reborn everyday and so should our pain and trubles).
Thank you for saving my soul tonight as I galdly read through your wisdom my dear, and most of all, thank you for existing.

Katy T.Australia

I am back from my holiday in Munich, funny I now know why I hate it here in this overpriced country and why some people do not like to come here. Munich is an amazing city full of light and life. It still has it’s problems like any great city, but it is a city that thrives on it’s inner light.

One of the days I was there I saw the Christmas Markets for the first time. I was like poor Jose!! Tears welled in my eyes at the amazing sight. I got to drink Mulled wine and to treat myself to some hot sausages and bread on the cold street.

It is all another story for another time.!

When I got back to Ireland I was hit with the reality of my life here and as always want to get as far away from my problems as always. I went to visit two of my good friends at their house for a few festive beers and some food. My friend had gotten the Wii games console from Santa for Christmas, so we played a few games till we were too tired to stand up again!! I showed them my new PSP a hand held console that plays games, movies and goes on the net etc. I handed it to my friend to have a look because I bought a rare White version that is very expensive in Ireland, but cheep in Munich, he began to read allowed as if from the screen, ”kealan we have gotten you a present, but are too embarrassed to give it to you.” We all laughed and I was handed ‘Like a Flowing River.’

I have it here now beside me in the café I work in as I am posting this comment!

It has given me the strength to try again to write my little story

Have a great New Year!

Kealan

I wish every person a peaceful moment in silence. And the chance to get rid of the pain and the dark.

Love,
Mirjam, The Netherlands

Reading your last message, I know pretty much how you feel right now, I was there for a long time after breaking up with the love of my life. I left a message about it on the 23rd. Its hard and painful, and though probably not much consolation if you are still in the throes of your loss…but it does get better.

For me its been three years since the fact. You were wondering if men feel this way about love also?

The answer is yes. Yes we do. Funny I was asking the same question after my girlfriend left me…do girls really love deeply or do they simply fall in and out of deep infatuation? That was how I felt at the time.

I ve come to realise though, that it was less dramatic than all that. I wanted to settle with my life as it was, I had reached a very comfortable period and she was intrinsic to my feeling of well being.

With her gone, I had to face the world alone, and after three years of discussing every little thing with a girl who listened and advised (or simply told me to cop on when that was all that was needed!) being alone against the world was a scary prospect.

Having someone who listens and cares for you and loves you is an extraordinary feeling, but there are two people in a relationship and as much as both may talk and share their experiences, there is always those secret desires and ambitions that are rarely expressed to the other person.

I believe it is those ambitions deep within a person that will always over ride, and break away from a situation that wont give them an oppertunity to be fulfilled. I’m not saying that people are necessarily aware of them, but they motivate people…even to break up with someone they love.

In my instance, my ex-girlfriend since our split has gone on to have a great career in radio and after I picked up the peices and stopped looking back so much, I have recently had an oppertunity to have my ambition be a successful DJ this coming year. It just landed on my lap. When I was with my ex, I had given up on that dream, as it just wasn’t happening for me.

Its taken a long time for me to accept the situation, I’ve gone through the full spectrum of emotion – anger, jealously, depression, crying, bargining, rage and only now am I beginning to put it in context. Theres a feeling growing in me now that, though that relationship is over, in essence dead and I’ve been grieving for the loss of soomething gone forever.

Love will come again.

Trust to it, because the price of love is pain for its loss. So, its clear you know how to love.

Stay strong,

Peace and love, Donal

Of horizons, it is nice to caress the brilliant white light and hope to sleep and awake as sparkling laughter and joy of that brilliant white light at the horizon!

The sigh of horror of a flower being cut at its stem, to enliven my evening party, and a dew slowly dropped down on my hand.

The soft love of water, untill I hurt it with my bull-in-a china-shop manner.

And other stories of love – rejected and repelled in everyday life. And then the imagined nostalgia of someone, living everywhere…

Of these little things, till strong enough to stand, was made the little prince, protected in the wake-up shower, to begin the journey to office again.

Oblivion is necessary. We have made it a necessary part of our lives. And with all that, the little prince chose to befriend the yellow snake…

And crying wells in the night sky. He would be happy. He is. Think of yourself, and worry not. If oblivion catches up with you, at least be glad that you had known the meaning of its absence!

adieu

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Let us share our words and our dreams

Let us give opportunity to exist

Let us exchange indefinitely

Let us amalgamate with Utopia …

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busard

Ha! Sorry if I scared you. :) It was not my intention.

Katy,

Sorry to hear that you are in pain. In the big scheme of things, it has been my experience, and of those around me, that all things work toward the eventual best for everyone concerned.

In hindsight, if the greatest love of MY life hadn’t left me, I would have ended up with a man who wasn’t good for me. He ended up being schizophrenic and living on the streets. :( I often see him, and (not to sound insensitive!)think to myself, ‘Phew! I’m glad I dodged that bullet!’ And I’m reminded that we never know God’s plan for us until we’ve gotten a little further along the path.

I’ve seen the same thing over and over again with my friends and family. Cosmic forces separate and bring together through strange synchronicities, the people we need to be with (or not!). The pain of transition passes if you work on letting it go, and just keep holding on to the hope and the realization that we will never know the big picture all at once, but that’s the fun of living. Pain can be difficult, but as we’ve all been discussing here, once you get through the pain, you find the reward of a lesson learned.

Hang in there, Sweetie! You are in my prayers.

Sincerely,

-Deb :)

..the most optimistic statement in english literature..seasons change..people change…desires change…but only thing remains constant…our journey to find happiness….be it through finding love..or through loneliness…or by looking at the piles and piles of pearl like clouds…the quest for happiness….and acceptance from others continues till the last breath and maybe beyond that as well!!

“So you’ve chosen to leave? You’ve packed up your stars and moons and decided to leave me with an empty galaxy and a mute desert? WERE ARE YOU? What happened to our blue skies?… Don’t leave me with no words, don’t you know that I’m but a mirage? I’m only there when you see me. Don’t you know that I only want to be seen with your eyes?”

I’m not sure who is the master of these well written words that speak exactly what my heart has been asking for the last 9 months, these painful words is all I feel and when I read them I feel a ting of madness, pain and rage. I think to myself, how can one be so good and yet we hurt them as if they are the worst people on earth? I’m at the edge of the cliff Paulo, and I’m thinking twice about jumping. The only reason that stops me is my darling mother, I cant leave her with the pain she will feel after I’m gone will surly kill her. You see, I dont often see her much but when I do I feel as if I’m that child you speak about in your life, we meet for few hours and she makes me feel as if I’m still her only child when I have 7 other siblings but I’m the youngest one.
I’m stuck Paulo.. I can’t leave but I dont know how to stay around for so long with this pain that I feel every day, every minute every second of my life for 9 months I feel as if I’m not meant to be here(alive). Everything is black and white Paulo, there are no colours in my days, there is no life without fear in my hours spent alone. I try to be brave and have courage but my mask is too heavy to hold up high and I cant trust my heart to see me though nor other hearts are trustworthy these days.
I’ll hold on as long as I can and I will not stop writing about the love I feel and the pain that comes with it till the day maybe love will have mercy on me and forgive this pain I create in my heart.
I ask you Paulo, who is ‘him’(love) to break me like this when I have done so much to make Him(love) happy in all the ways a young woman can make ‘love’ happy?
Do men know the meaning of love? I mean true love? Does it exist or is it only in my thoughts and the thoughts of great writers in a book?
How does one live without it Paulo, how?

yours truly,

Katy.