By Paulo Coelho
The roller-coaster is my life;
life is a fast, dizzying game;
life is a parachute jump;
it’s taking chances, falling over
and getting up again;
it’s mountaineering;
it’s wanting to get to the very top of yourself
and feeling angry and dissatisfied
when you don’t manage it.
(Eleven Minutes)
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and dusting yourself down, ready to start again where you left off
praying for more strength
more mercy
more guidance
and more wisdom
x
Dear Paulo,
I want to thank you for changing my life the way you actually did.Your books are more than inspiration to me.I don’t know if you are ever going to read my comments as I read your stories every night.I decided to visit your blog because I am afraid that one day I will run out of texts to read.As every human I have my very own Mekka and the Alchemist changed my life in a very strong way.Thank you for writing,thank you for making me believe.If you will ever read my comment please just let me know.please!!!
yes…
and…it fools you too, but….without that, we wouldn’t be able to live it to the fullest,
without catching the wind, we wouldn’t be able to fly up high, see the stars, feel the warmth of the sun..
without the rain, the thunderstorm, we wouldn’t be able to see the beauty of the rainbow..
without tears, fears, we wouldn’t be able to cherish the moments of smile, of happiness..
without darkness, we wouldn’t be able to see the light,
without pain…how would we ever notice…love?
Every moment, makes the life compassionate, beautiful and…one in a million!
The miracle of life!
love
Agnieszka
one minute you are in heaven..the next you are in hell….
between 2 worlds…
My life is a roller coaster; it’s a game that I am playing and sometimes I win, other times I win not. My life is up and down; all or nothing; mostly good and sometimes not so good; sometimes I feel that I live my life, other times I have a feeling that my life is being lived; being lived by the universe? Not sure, but sure of my uncertainty at those times. A real rollercoaster life, and I often feel so close yet am so far…
g
x
Dearest Paulo and friends,
For as long as i can remember, i’ve gone for what i’ve wanted. I’ve dared to be different and just get my butt off the seat even if i was scared as hell, and went for whatever i had in mind. Last night, i had a thought.. I saw something that i wanted to do, but i didn’t. I don’t know why, i just sat, and for once i didn’t get up and start anything. I just sat, waiting, for a sign. I waited for most of the night, i waited for a move, for something for me to say, go ahead. Eventually, it came, but by then, i’d filled myself up with such negativity, i didn’t believe it to be true. At the end of it all, i just walked away. I walked away, maybe out of fear, out of disbelief, or maybe just out of feeling somewhat unworthy- that maybe its just ment to be. Now i regret it, because i’ll never know what could have happened. I know, that i can’t beat myself up about this , and it doesn’t bother me that much, its just that, i think this must have the first time, in a long time, i didn’t dare. I didn’t try. And i’m glad for it. Simply because, i’m always writing here, go for what you want, and dare to dream, but maybe i’d forgotten the importance of it. Nothing makes you realise the value of daring to be different, than regretting that you hadn’t been. I do hope however, things will work out..
Thank you for being
Yajna
My life is a hidden treasure and I close my eyes to face your face in the solitude of my my heart…
hmm…how about enjoying the moment of…dizziness..
:-)
My life is a tree, my Father always called me Mowgli.
I have been many names, all of which have meant something, somehow.
‘An enormous sycamore,’ Strange you mention that…page one, The Alchemist. I climbed to the very top of it earlier today…well yesterday for me now. Was Fun!… I shall read to page 8.
I Have to talk to my teachers tomorrow, 7 hours and counting.
I look Forward to finally reading your book.
& Books of course.
Goodnight.
x
I am ashame to recognize that I have not too much tallent in poem writing, but maybe that is why I admire so much one who does it well.The short poem is simple but musical and full of meanings.Like you are in all of your writings.”Eleven minutes” is a success also because you are not giving digusting details and gave another example that one can make it ,no matter all things seem to be against.I was amazed how well you may describe a woman feelings and how right you are about the tabu of the climax.I am going too far again, so to get to the point ,yes, one have to live life like if the very moment would be the last one, “carpe diem” says the latin , do not let for tomorrow what you can do today, so on and so forth.Do not forgett also that if You live like you may live your last minute you have to behave.
Dear ALEX - just believe it…..and don’t forget, Paulo’s life is just as much, if not more of a roller-coaster than ours, and this nourishes his ideas for his works. Don’t worry he has enough material to keep us going for a while, and anyway I’m sure I speak for most when I say that you have to read his books at least twice to catch the things we missed between the lines. Just believe, Paul
PS To ALL: I know now with out a shadow of doubt, that if it were not for the downs, the ups would be half as good. I have had many awful experiences in my life, but I would not miss a single one, knowing now that these lead to my wonderful, beautiful present existence…and believe me, a down is always followed by an up ;-)
Much love to you ALL, Paul
People so easily forget it isn’t necessary to ‘climb to the top of the self.’ All you need to learn to do is lift the veils you created that block your view.
Life exist out of obstacles.It is to us to
defeat these obstacles with our talents.
Meanwhile our wisdome become richer
Persons how avoid these obstacles will have
an angry and dissatisfied feeling.
They playing the game on a safe way and don’t
take any initiative.
It is I Leclerq from the resistance
( Allo,Allo!)
660 sec
Paulo,
Is life really like a roller coaster game, full or blood rushing adrenalin? Falling and getting up?
How come I feel that life for me is a snail journey. It is a set course, moments with coincidences planned by the higher power. Sometimes I feel that I have no power to decide, because I am too scared to find out that I am going against His Plan. Is His plan also my plan? Can we as individuals set our own course without mixing up His.
I want to play in the rollercoaster game too, and take a gulp of rushing air during the ride. Feeling alive, satisfied, angry, sad, happy, disappointed. I want to feel life the way your poem makes me feel, alive.
Moly,
Love to you.
“Who dares wins” as Paulo says….or was it James Bond?
Anyway
If ’satan’ cannot mess up God’s big plan (ALL things work for the Good of those who love Him)
then what ever, which ever thing we do, will not mess up God’s plan either.
We need to be aware
and willing to listen to correction
when we wander off in the wrong direction
and there’s another phrase which I hope will inspire you;
take delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
i think that He puts our dreams and desires in our heart in the first place - yes, we can wander off again and think of Hmmm, nice big shiny fast car would be nice…..but unless God had given you the ability to become a Formula one driver with the charitable heart to raise money for orphans and use every TV opportunity to spread peace and Love, then I personally tend to think it would be a waste of prayer - but you never know, I’m not speaking for God….
My life is a snail’s pace too
-I just finished a portrait after 3months - once upon a time, I’d have done it in a week and done three more after.
Most of the roller-coaster ride goes on in my head; more accurately, I don’t do roller-coasters, they make me vomit, but I climb mountains. Now, I could never get to the top of myself, or a mountain, at the same speed as a roller-coaster, and you couldn’t take snap shots of memorable places, breathing in the view, reflecting, reviewing, expecting, previewing, and you don’t gotta go plummeting back down to earth at top speed every other blink - if you want an adrenalin rush, just look down and see how far you’ve come, then calmly and purposefully put new energy to good use and climb some more.
Blah blah blah
sorry
that probably didn’t help at all,
LOVE
xxxx
Hi Don Pablo
Well say and written.
At one point in our short existence we have all experience what you had written down,
a big roller-coaster with a free pass that never seems to stop.
And yes it goes so fast and dizzying us a long the way until we find that parachute and jump and look for something different
And we start asking our self many questions and we take our first adult step to look for those answers that been with us for long time.
One had to have the courage to be different in a way to better one self and help us all for a peace and loving human race.
When we take chances, fall over and get up again, WOW what a experience that is, embraced, nourish it, make it yours and own it.
Nothing better then this will teach us to be who we really are deep down our self.
Please have the courage to do what is right in your life and others one thousand times over.
I promises you it would get easy one day.
IF
That’s right. And when we stay blind, parachutes don’t open anymore. But there’s always many existential things for us to stand up.
That reminds about a very good friend of mine, that often said to me: “Fall dawon eight times, get up again for the ninth time”. He was a boxer. Maybe that’s why he had the sense of it. :)
Blessings.