What is the driving force in your life?
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Paulo
What is the driving force in your life?
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My driving force in life is my WILL to LIVE – In spite of all internal or external circumstances! I believe in LIFE!
curiosity
foods
love?no not really…
hmmm…other’s opinion
to create!
love for all beings & earth
curiosity
adventure
Sara, ho letto il tuo messaggio e non posso fare a meno di risponderti: ognuno di noi è su questa terra per un buon motivo.Come vedi io ti sto rispondendo, ed anche io che ho trovato l’amore tanti anni fa, che ho un figlio ormai grande e pure una bellissima nipotina, continuo a volte a chiedermi quale sia il significato della mia vita. Credo che non siano gli altri a doverci far trovare il senso della nostra vita, ma che lo dobbiamo trovare in noi stessi, anche se fossimo la sola persona che esiste sulla faccia della terra. Se siamo qui è perchè Dio ci ha voluti.
Guardati attorno, apri il tuo cuore, vedrai che non sei la sola persona a pensarla così e, sono sicurissima che se sorridi e cercherai, troverai te stessa nelle difficoltà altrui e poi, un giorno, anche la persona che ti amerà, magari per tutta la vita. Non smettere mai di cercare te stessa negli altri, guardati attorno e sorridi per le piccole cose: il sole, la brezza tiepida di primavera, la salute che hai, ogni singola cosa che possiedi e sopratutto per la persona che sei. Amati, specchiati al mattino e sorriditi, vedrai riflessa una persona bella e ti sentirai già in compagnia . Ciao!
some times i feel like i dont have any driving force in my life.i wake up in the morning take my breakfast go to work then after my whole day bizi with work i return simply take my dinner and then go to sleep again.there was a time when my every day use to start with a hope of finding my love-a person who will fill the empty spaces in me.Bt with the passage of time i came to know that this word never existed on this earth.And my empty spaces kept on increasing day by day.and now i m on a stage where i m totally confused about my life and reason of my living.
Hi, Sara, why not love thyself….be happy in your own company…. if somebody is to come , he will come.
my son and the my pursuit of everlasting happiness…by the blessings of God
God’s Will.
Paulo Coelho, I read your books because I don’t know what the driving force is. I am 18, but I suffer from Post Tramatic Stress Disorder because I am a nut and I have had too many tramatic experiences at a young age.
So I am mentally screwd up now as they say.
I just wanted to become a simple housewife, 5 kids, 3 from my womb and 2 adopted. Maybe live in the countryside on a farm and travel once in awhile, but I didn’t need to be rich or anything. Perhaps build an orphanage and use the rice field to supply it.
I originally wanted to save myself until marriage, then a guy took it away unexpectedly without asking. I took chances my whole life, and I am tired.
I don’t like being alone anymore but I’m not very good at making friends. I just want to be loved, partially because I want something I can’t have.
I read your books because my first kiss was from a man from Ecuador. Before I met him, I got panic attacks and fear every time a guy tried to touch me even by just holding my hand. I always had flashbacks and thought guys would try and rape me. The guy from Ecuador made me feel so great that I took chances in life. He was my first kiss, and everything I ever wanted in a man. I always told myself I hated playing games with me, hard to get or whatever. I wanted someone that would chase after me but appreciate me as well when I was nice to them. He was it.
Unfortunately I messed up and I will never find another perhaps. Yes, I am 18 but I have went through things that some people may never experience in a lifetime. I am a crazy girl. I took chances and I am tired.
But everyone in my life, if I am too nice to them they take advantage of me. If I don’t feel like smiling I don’t smile. I don’t understand the purpose of my life anymore, I wish I did. I don’t care about money, fame and things like that. But I fall in love too fast and I’m just not good at it, playing games, hiding affection.
People float in and out of my life, and I just wish I could have a partner to be there and travel with me, not tire of me and leave.
I want to change my name so I can forget my past and move away. If only I wasn’t an only child, I could have a sibling to take care of my sick mother. Maybe I would have had a brother to protect me when I was sexually assaulted. I don’t know what I want anymore, because what I want is impossible. But I always believe in fairytales and that’s why I never had many friends. I don’t care what other people think as much as others, so everyone thinks I’m crazy. My virginity is already taken away, I failed my dream of waiting until marriage for the right guy. I don’t know what I want anymore.
I am in college to study foreign languages that way I can travel and speak to others, although I hope I can acquire native tongue pronouciation in all of them. I left my mother for just a few days to travel and when I came back she was sicker than ever. So I have to work,study work.
I don’t know what is the purpose of my life anymore. I don’t know why I wake up. I wish I did. I am tired. I just want one companion. But it’s hard because my brain shuts down when I’m nervous and shy. But there is one lesson I must keep telling myself, that you and that man from Ecuador taught me, not to worry. Worry is eating away my life and I figured that out again by writing this long thing.
I still will change my name anyway perhaps, I just don’t know to what.
I feel extremely sorry for everything you have been through. I will not pretend that I understand how you feel but I want to tell you this, 18 years of your life have been a misery but do not let those 18 years ruin the next 80 years that you will live.
If you haven’t read the book Eleven Minutes, please do so. I can relate to your story and all I can tell you is Never give up believing in your dreams. Everything happens for a reason. We all have a story, to all different degrees, that appear to be labeled good and or bad. It’s not so much as What happens as much as how we react to it. You have your whole life ahead of you. As for the virginity issue.. there is a big difference between having it taken and giving it away. You can never control others only yourself. Be proud of the compassionate person you seem to be by the choices you make to care for your mom and the sacrifices you’ve made doing so. That in itself is very special. Feel it, Know it. You deserve to be loved but it must come from you, for you, first. Once done, the “love of your life” will appear and you will have everything you ever dreamed of. Be Happy!
Oh, I would love to help you, so just let me say a few things. Reading the books of Paulo is a very good beginning, though sometimes you have to think a lot until you get the message. And even harder, live by it. Before I knew his books, I found myself in a similar situation as you, at least mentally, and a man once recommended for me to read “The path to happiness” from Bernard Benson (bright idea to name other books here? Dunno, I do it anyway). Since then I never ever read any book about buddism or whatever other than this and Paulo’s, of course, since the book gave me so much. It is written for children, and just nice, very very nice. Besides from Paulo’s books, which gave me many insights, I hope, this book really changed my life.
And maybe some other things: Do not worry about virginity, first kiss, whatever. Those rules were once made a long time ago by humans you do not even know, do these things have really any importance for you, or is this importance just forced upon you by what society thinks today.
I could write so much more, but decided just to say one more thing: Never leave the music out of your heart, it is incredible the power, solace and hope it can us give.
You’re amazing! I mean, you could express all your thoughts this way, and I am astonished by you. Wish you to keep on the track to happiness and finally to reach it. You do really deserve it! J
Meu querido amigo,
A minha força motriz é o amor e a curiosidade de querer saber o vem pela frente.
um grande abraço
um lindo dia uma linda noite!!!
lulu
… a tramway called
I thought it was ‘a fish called Wanda’.
wow!!!! I always find wonderful treasures in the blog when I least expect it……food for the mind…
Love
Monica
My driving force is my passion and my belief in trying to excel in anything I do.
What is the driving force in your life?
For me,the belief that I can become a better person day in day out, the belief that I can make mistakes and learn from them, the belief that destiny is written but it is the journey that we go on to discover ourselves that leads us to who we are meant to be and who we are meant to love.
La belleza, ¿pero qué es eso para mí? Sólo el alma lo sabe y eso es lo que hay que encontrar. Hace poco le decía a mi sobrino que lo que importa es llegar y no cómo se llega pero él me contestó que vos decís que lo que importa es el camino, como cuando alguien cita las sagradas escrituras. Fue divertido. El es abogado pero también es increíble e hilarantemente ingenuo, por ratos. Yo le repliqué que para qué vas a andar si no vas a llegar… ¡O sea…! Honestamente. Llegar puede ser algo que impulse tu vida, pero también puede ser tu perdición si te convierte en un vicioso que sólo quiere llegar, por eso el equilibrio es tan indispensable; la búsqueda del equilibrio es una constante en mi existencia lo cual explica un poco el registro de mi desequilibrio. Pero aún eso no es nada si no logro incorporar el caos inherente a toda actividad humana dentro de mi equilibrio. Una vez logrado eso seré libre. Como ya casi lo logro creo que pondré a la libertad como aquello que impulsa mi vida.
My driving force is to do something good to god and witness all his miracles which is the food of my soul.
Trying to force a man to be part of my life when he clearly does not want to be
well frankly speaking my driving force is just the unsatisfied conclusion each day i get with the way i spent my day and to improve the schedule or the future targets i always plan for the next day
No. Just breathing for nothing..
Yajna,
When you held that heart in your hands you were looking at a word in someone’s book of life. You could have destroyed it and the word would be the code for: DIE; or you could place it back with the code: LIVE. I suppose that the driving force as you get up in the morning is to be able to carry on with your profession in such a way that in the evening you can say: The whole day I have coded for: LIFE. Be a good Doctor and be touched every day by the MANIFESTATION of LOVE. In your medical studies it was basic to study DNA. It is useless to talk about DNA unless it is expressed into the final product, protein. The same happens when I read the comments that the driving force is LOVE. Love is the code. The driving force is the EXPRESSION, the MANIFESTATION of LOVE in ALL its facets. It is like shattering a mirror and looking into it. It is still our reflection, but more like a puzzle put together. The driving force is LOVE but it can only have meaning if we behave each day by placing all the love pieces together. Our Dreams are only the plan, the guideline. The driving force is our daily choices, crazy as they may be, in BUILDING piece by piece that monument called personal HAPPINESS; and may our personal happiness be the personal happiness of many others. The basic rule is that our happiness must not be built on robbing the happiness of others. Apart from that is live and let live.
Love to all.
Lino
Aspiration to new knowledge, experience
Life itself….for with all what it carries of good and bad…bitter and sweet is worth living…experiencing…learning..and giving…its just that each of those has its own moment…..
Origin energy is my driving force,ok? Happy new year to all.
ME:WE
The Reign of God is. !
Driving force is something that is a purpose of one soul on this earth .. Whether we find it or not but owing to it’s omnipresence we all keep moving towards a goal .. unknown to our conscious self .. but all known to the Inner Self
Each individual is bound to find his/her driving force in one life as that driving force is his own broken part with the meeting of which .. Each of us becomes a Whole ..
Lots of Love
Hope to be someone someday
That’s one question I’ve been asked alot. My driving force…I would have to say is an inner voice of passion, strength, will power, (dreaming) and limitless motivation- it’s always been there and hasn’t left me and hope it never does. It’s the way one thinks and when I think of where I am now that is exactly what I have been thinking. I’ve lived in many parts of the world and mixed with all kinds of people and led a great life and it’s what I wanted. I feel blessed having the experiences that I have encountered and all the beautiful people I met and loved in my path. Thank you.
Karmel
Really i don’t know in this moment. Maybe dreams, bcse im a big dreamer and this isn’t good.
At this time in my life my driving force has been helping others. Friends, family or someone i feel needs to be saved. I have helped friends and family with addictions. I feel that this is my calling and try my best to keep this part of me. I need it. It is my life driving force.
C-
Values.
Human is powered by abilities and driven by values.
My loved ones and the passion to succeed in my chosen profession and ultimately my faith in God. That’s about it.
Iza,
i’m someone understood what i was trying to say :) it wasn’t the easiest to explain :) i think we do think similarly :) and i do believe in giving, being the best i can be, achieving my dreams and most of all love :) everything and in every form.. Even if i’m setting myself up for a complete disaster.
Lots of love
Yajna
knowing there´s something so much bigger than me… IN ME. And being able to manifest it writing.
curiosity (defenately… seems like I sometimes am aiming on becoming a walking library *grin*) and some love… *smile*
love
love in action: acts of creation and service
Knowing who I am…
;o)
Saber quién soy…
Saludos
love of course is there anything but love?
To yajna,
You couldnt explain better the way i think and tried earlier this week to actually put in word but was disturb by something else ,,…probably a sign cause someone would actuallly round around the question way better than me. But I don’t know if you had the same tought….is it our desire to archived our legende personnel,(A sentence who, Fortunatly didnt falled into “depht ears)…Witch is Good!! But, to put my entire “driving force into the perfect,dream life is kind of useless in the mean that I mist all the present.
But then realize today that is actually to share and give,,,like you just mention with being so right again … ..amazing!
Au revoir! Iza
I have always felt driven by a force I don’t know, call it instinct, unconditional love, whatever. It’s an undefinable quality which sounds like a tuning fork pitch, the path the angels lead you, the dreams, the knowing.
It’s what makes me happy and joyful and at one with the universe.
Follow your bliss xx
Love, my dreams and that curious child within me
Dearest Paulo and Friends,
I asked myself this question in the beginning of the week.. And automatically my answer was love. It was love for life, family, career, people, everything and all its forms. But what drives me everyday? Is it simply the thought of helping people? Is it the thought that one day i will make my mark on this world? Or is the fact that i know, by following what i love, i will discover who i am? I think its a combination of it all that drives me.
But you know, i’ve been thinking about something else, i know its slightly off the topic but i think it answers an important comment Paulo always makes so i want to share it with you all..
He always says that people are afraid of either knowing they can’t achieve their dreams or knowing they CAN achieve their dreams. I know at first it seems crazy that people are afraid of reaching their dreams, but its not. If a dream is one’s purpose in life, and one achieves it, then will their purpose in life be lost? I’ve learnt that the answer is no. Allow me explain.. my entire life i’ve wanted to be a doctor. I don’t know why, it just made sense to me, and its all i’ve ever wanted. So growing up, whenever i did anything, it was solely to get into the best medical school, which i did do. Now that i am here, i used to feel fascinated, i loved the work, but i wanted more. I sort of achieved my aim to get into med to be a doctor, and although i’m still studying, i felt as though i did achieve my goal in a way. I know it may seem strange, but this very thought, made me directionless in a way. I knew that i want to be more than a gp but i didn’t know what. And that confusion and sense that i’m where i want to be, didn’t motivate me to be the best i can be. About a month ago, my dad organised for me to observe a series of cardiac surgeries with a friend of his. I was honestly a bit down and didn’t feel like going since i was on vacation, but i did it to please my dad. I swear, it was the best decision i made in my life. I was mesmerised by the beauty of the heart. Nothing in this world can compare to the adrenaline rush you get by fixing a beating heart or even just holding it in your hand. I know i sound a bit crazy.. But i fell in love. The heart is beautiful.. Literally.. Its pink, purple, yellow and white.. And just like that.. Once again i loved. And that drives me now, its added to my dream for now i want to do far more than just a normal doctor. ‘its become my new dream and believe it or not, its motivated me to study and work so much harder knowing that i have to get there.’
The whole point of this story, in case you didn’t get it, is that one’s life is not made out of one dream because we can fall in love with so many different things. I believe that once we achieve one dream, we will find another, something else that we truely love, and we focus our lives on that. Maybe life is made out of multiple dreams or a dream that you can continuously build on, such that you can only realise what they are after you achieve them one by one. Maybe we should never be afraid that we CAN achieve a dream because who knows what other dreams we’ll be missing out on if we don’t attempt to reach the first one. Hmmm.. I hope this makes sense..
Thank you for being
Yajna
l am sure your dreams can ever come to an end. reaalization of one dream opens up another for you and it will be an infinite process. if not, on realization of your dream ,the circle is complete, no more action, no more life , life becomes dull and that is the end of it all.
Thanks for sharing this great story.
I am pre med, but I completely relate to you…
and this year had been my year of discovery. and I discovered love…and it has become a part of my dream and I am not afraid of attaining my dream anymore.
Love, Learning, growing, Worship, knowing that i am here for a reason. There are no mistakes.
Yes, and of course: freedom, freedom of learning..
The driving force in mah lyf is Loving mah lyf..come what may..i m glad to b born in this beautiful world whr i meet evryday i meet new ppl…n few touch me deeply..some hurt me..bt the fact dat am loved by few and have so many things to love n admire n learn n watch n experience in this world..it propells me on n on n on!!..
lotsa love,PALASHI
The driving force in my life is learnning to understand, in all its forms and aspects. Learning to understand myself and the others without losing faith, hope and love in difficult times. And through this recognition of myself and the others, learning to understand to thing that are bigger than me: God and Universe. All this for one reason: To be able to unigue with all that surrounds me and bring the love, faith, and hope that comes with knowledge back to those who are sharing their learning with me.
Sorry – I m adding the most important as love is hope and to believe:-)
k
You have answered :-) Love:-)
k
Anonymous,
If there’s no God,
what is LOVE to you?
I wrote this a while ago:
LOVE is the only proof that GOD exists.
Even if we say that chemical reaction in the brain creates it, NOBODY can answer – WHY? and WHAT FOR?
love
Agnieszka
that i’m someone’s greatest achievement…
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