By Paulo Coelho
In the mid 1970s, when he was about to complete his doctorate in physics, the scientist Stephen Hawking - who was already carrying the disease that would gradually paralyse all his movements - heard a doctor say of him that he had only two more years to live.
‘Right then,’ he thought to himself. ‘now that I don’t need to worry about things like pensions or paying the bills, I can concentrate on trying to understand the Universe.’
Since the disease was progressing rapidly, he was forced to come up with ways of explaining his ideas as simply and as briefly as possible.
Two and a half years went by, twenty years went by, and Hawking is still alive. He can communicate his highly abstract ideas through a tiny computer hooked up to his wheelchair and which has a vocabulary of only 500 words. He wrote his classic A Brief History of Time and was responsible for creating an entirely new vision of modern physics.
Rather than leading him into a life of complete disability, the illness forced him to discover a new way of thinking.
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Everyone has a way of thinking. And everyone is limited one way or the other. If he managed so will we. The thing is having the will to suceed against all odds.
If you believe you can, you will.
If you don’t, than why continue?
Words are beautiful, fulfilling and perfect.
You use words in a way that makes you look humble, and therefor your words inspire people.
I wander what you where thinking about when you wrote your last entry.
How did you project his story back on yourself?
Life has a meaning because death does exist.
The fact that tomorrow we can die, should make us live intesivly our today…
We postpone our plans, dreams, because we our concerned on our “tiny” everyday problems, and by concerning to much on them, they start to look big, they are transformed into barriers that divide us from our desires.
By doing this we waste our time, and we can find ourselves after 60 years, regreting why on hell we didn’t live our life???
We can die tomorrow…today is the time we can still give a chance to ourselves, today is a blessed day which gives us another chance to change for better….
THANK YOU PAULO COELHO FOR REMINDING US ALL EVERY DAY TO DISCOVER A NEW WAY OF THINKING.THROUGH YOUR BOOKS AND THOUGHTS,I RECENTLY HAVE RED AGAIN THE ALCHIMIST,AND A FRIEND OF MINE SENT ME THE LINK TO YOUR BLOG, AND IT IS A REAL JOY FOR ME,AND A SOURCE OF SIMPLE TRUE WISDOM.BLESS YOU
Hi there,
We spend our life thinking. We have to learn to make better use of our thoughts so that they work in our favour … and go beyond duality.
Marie-Christine
Hi,
Came to know about this blog from (http://apusay.blogspot.com/2007/11/veronika-decides-to-die-paulo-coelho.html) . Liked the content here. I think I would be a regular visitor here now.
Enthusiasm and will to live do indeed add years to a person
Thank you
Paulo, when I read it, I cryed very much because I remembered my daughter that was born with this problem…I gave her much love and she made all kinds of physiotherapy. Mothers that have sons with ADD sometimes think that they have a big problem…I can’t understand them…Bye, because i’m crying now…
I wanna spend my time reading your fine books. You did a great job. Thank you Mr. Paulo Coelho for being my inspiration to write an articles although it is only articles. And also you proved that you are good and the best and thank you for proving what a good writer is… May God be with you and may the force be with you… Goodbye.
Dearest Paulo and Friends
I haven’t much time to comment right now- just wanted to wish you all everything of the best for Diwali :) May light always conquer darkness in each of your loves, and may God always guide you all. God bless you all. I love everyone here :)
Thank you for being
Yajna
Everyone makes a difference.
Everyone’s thoughts and actions are equally important to the progress of evolution, no matter how briefly they were felt by us.
Meire, my thoughts are with you.
It’s all about attitude.
Dearest Paulo and friends,
Its all about perception of life, you always have a choice, and with that choice (or attitude one can call it), you can create anything out of nothing. Never give up and always believe, and you’l go along way. Stephen Hawking is a brilliant man. Absolutely. And AVC is right, no matter what you do, be it the littlest or greatest of things, you will effect the world. Everything effects everything else, thoughts itself is very powerful as they tend to manifest into reality. Its also a process whereby thoughts turn into actions, its the way we all work, and it just emphasises the importance of having a positive on look on any situation. Stephen Hawking is a perfect example of this. You never know what life has in store for you, miracles happen everyday, doctors may predict patients to live for a certain period of time, but the truth is, it is mostly a learned guess. One of my close friends has aplastic anemia. The doctors told him he has 3 to 4 years to live at the most. Its been 6 years now.. And the boy is still smiling.
Thank you for being,
Yajna
ps. Meire, i pray for you and your daughter.
And it´s all about love….
…For me, for you, for everthing that surrond us…
I knew a woman who lost one of her three sons to cancer and later she was diagnoised with cancer.The doctor told her that she had six months to one year to live.She decided to make a secure future for her two sons. She died 15 years later with two bungalows, a hardware shop and a warehouse. Now her sons ARE infact leading a secure life.(what she wanted for them).
Maybe when given a deadline, its natural to think of others and to do the most loved thing.
Cheers
Why does death or the idea that we are going to die tomorrow make us realize that we have a personal legend to pursue? why don’t we follow our personal legend without being haunted by the idea of death?
Why does death or the idea that we are going to die tomorrow make us realize that we have a personal legend to pursue? why don’t we follow our personal legend without being haunted by the idea of death?
Maybe because when we face death we realize that we don’t have anything to lose, and have everything only to succeed.