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In Brida, a book that I wrote back in 1990, there are two ways to recognize your soulmate. Through Magic – meaning : entering a state of transe in which you can see a bright spot over the shoulder of your soulmate – or, by taking risks, by making mistakes, by being with the wrong people until you find your soul mate.
So here is my question: Would you try to find your soul mate through magic or by taking risks, making mistakes?
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Well…I believe that its not us….but its love that find us…
My personal experience: I believed in magic,…and I looked over the person I thought to be my soulmate and knew that he’s the one…
…and then some all of a sudden alterations happened in my life..and it started to seem out to be that …he’s the one I can’t get!
I mean…u really can’t decide whats a magic and whats what…it is only what you wish out to be and what you never did expected
And then what; Once the soul mate is found….once the highest riches have been located…once the most powerful position has been attained..once ‘success’ has been fulfilled.once we feel full; then what? Is there a place after all of that where it all makes sense, or would that place come before? Is the journey to, actually a coming from? Are we born with all we need, with a faint memory of what it was, and what we aim to re-gain? Are we going home?
justo son las dos formas para encontrar tu alma gemela una forma espiritual viendo mas allà de lo normal usando la concentraciòn y hasta llegar al trance de una forma subliminal o cometiendo errores como se podria decir de equivocaciòn en equivocaciòn o de tumbo en tumbo la suerte juega un papel muy importante
i suffered from anxiety attacks and it was really a bad experience. it is as if you are going to great crazy and have the feeling of choking`
I know what’s considered the “right” answer here is by taking risks. I’m sorry, but I’d like to find my soulmate by magic, by seeing the point of light on his shoulder.
I think most of Mr Coehlo’s questions do not have a ‘right for all’ answer! Although I would suspect that the process involved in acquiring the discipline, skill, and ability to be able to use magic for this purpose would involve taking risks, making mistakes, and chancing to be with the wrong person(s).
well well i personally thanks to you for this it’s really great and helpful for sharing. i love it.
Tough one.By making mistakes, by discovering.
love is how u feel it it needs to be felt and nurtured and with time it grows if being together with someone still makes u feel empty then u need to leave that life for in search of ur soulmate but that puts ur life in risk that u might just have to lose what u actually have in hand and thats what a quest for love brings u and 1 has to scrafice many things 4 it and and even u have to hurt many ppl who love u( but u dont love them)so how can u just carry the burden of this hurting ppl love is so difficult to handle its just so risky and magical
I have had the magic but I have also taken the risks. Looking back, all were amazing in some special way. Life brings you some wonderful, interesting, unique souls but I would have to say that without taking the risk either way you will never know. I am happy today I am a blessed with my partner and someone I love and she has blessed us with 2 beautiful boys and our life is getting better everyday. I know she took a risk with me but we both agreed there was some magic the moment we met.
u were brave not every 1 is
Soulmate is a word that is being cheapened along with a host of other expressions with beautiful meanings. For my two pence worth, mistakes are a part of life, opportunities to increase your learning. Opportunities for introspection and deeper thought. Magic is what? Life is magic. Has its own rules and code. I don’t believe in glows above shoulders per se. Is Paulo teasing everyone ( nicely) ? ‘Soulmates’ are all around us. We are one body, one spirit. There is no separate existence in reality. We are one consciousness. ‘Soulmates’ are people who feel just that. That sense is magical.
i would like to find my soulmate to what knowledge i have gathered from my religious gatherings, and my hearts desire. that is by finding my own way to him, through chances taken, mistakes made and journeys made… if someone wud tell me a majical way to reach my soulmate. i wud definitely try it… but only if god wud be happy … see if life was to be lived fast forward and i had only 5 years to live… i wud take the fast riute to find all my oys… but if i know that i have a lot of years to run, and my journey wud be interesting if i had some dreams remained for later years i wud e happy and always excited, looking forward to surprises… like wats next and that makes me feel good abt life as i am always havings oemthing whioch keeps me wondering wats next… and soulmates search has been the most exciting wonderful so forth… all of my desires keep coming in front of me… like signs and majic… i ahve a feeling that i have met my soulmate though we are not yet together forever… but i do know that i will not be anyone elses… unless he claims me to him. yet a FEAR WAT IF THIS faith is wrong makes me walk and take a different route but somehow i always find walking on this path mroe comfortable and in line to my values than any other… nothing to lose… i feel
Does it have to be a choice?
Do we need to find them
or let fate find its way to cross our path?
If we do how do we know it has happened
and how do we know it has already happened.
Does it mean that when we are in search of our soul mate hurts, mistakes, and frustration are inevitable?
I think we do suffer from being separated from our soul mate.
Because I always feel that sense of dissatisfaction in my life that seems to be an abysmal appetite.
I just wonder if this is because of my distance to God or to my soul mate.
May be it is both.
May be my soul mate is my way to the creator…
There are lots of questions lingering in me but I know for sure that I need both of them to complete my life’s meaning…
true… u r quite close.
The question provides the options of finding a way to learn how to perform magic, likely a very stern and difficult discipline taking time, patience, trial and error; OR to find a way to learn from trial, error, mistakes, risk. I think that the lure of magic may have swayed me at certain times to accept what may appear to be a quicker and easier road, not because it is in fact easier, but because it would appear so. I would imagine that in the end, there is no such thing as an easy road to anything worthwhile of attaining. Only very hard work involving pain, joy, and the full gamut of experience in order to re-arrive where you started, with bruises, broken bones, worn heart, but satisfied soul. Battle on WOL’s.
But,being with the wrong people leads to emotional attachments and it is very difficult to break them and come out .It hurts.
trough magic…
i will neither pollute my soulmate connection with magic nor take risks or make conscious mistakes. but repent for the past follies and solely rely on the One and the True Force to enlighten me to treat every relation as a deep twinsoul connection and to make true commitments to each realationship.if we follow this Path, we will surely find our twin in this world or in the Hereafter.
I’ll take the risk.
Life, love and all that is magic. Every CONCIOUS act is magic.
I venture that even if we find our soulmate, he/she may not be concious enough to be cogniszant that we are theirs.
Timing is an integral part of all things in this world and sooo key to the journey.
Would you agree Mr. Coehlo?
;)
I tried to find my soulmate by taking risks and making mistakes.I made many mistakes and i am still paying some of them, but finally i found her!The big problem is that she, as Brida did, haven’t found me yet..I don’t know how to show her that I’m the one she’s looking for,because i tried everything.The question i need to ask is how may i saw her what i am for her without telling her, without making a big mistake again.I really need an aswer, and i would like to thank you because you helped me a lot, in the search of my self, love and my personal myth.
Its really hard to show someone who you really are especially revealing the most covert part without suffering the different consequences such as being mislead or misunderstood.
I just wonder the possibility of being so certain to one thing. How do you really know that she is the one?
Magic.
Do I know magic ,so as to decide whether we prefer it or not?I don’t know magic.
So,I must first learn magic, then answer.
l’idea di riconoscer l’amore da un punto luminoso provoca interesse,credo pero’che imparare a riconoscerlo,rende tutto piu’em ozionante…quando siamo innamorati ,tutto ci sembra diverso,questa e’ magia….
Through magic or mistakes?
Is this a question or a unite state?
It seems to me that magic is supposed to interact among others ,with people in everyday practics.
So my opinion is both.
You can not discover magic if you do not search and do mistakes.You can not discover mistakes if you do not practice magic.
its ceratainly a magic..and after that fairytale forever..
I would love to say through magic, because it seems more stable, simple and sure. But i think i will still go for taking risks and making mistakes. I have had a very turbulant love life for my young age, but from each and everyone of the men i’ve loved i’ve also learned about myself and about the face of the world. i have become who i am through this way of expressing and experiencing love in my life. For me, i need to love, i must fight for all my loves, because they provide me the tools and the path in my life; and with each person that i touch and who touches me, my vison of life and my believes seem to become more clear. So i think, in this life, it is essential for me to be taking risks and making mistakes in love, to achieve who i am in all my glory. I think this life has a powerful, and in the end beautiful, lession for me.
Maybe next time my soul will be ready for a more spiritual/magic way of finding my soulmate or it is yet in store for me in the years to come; but till then i continue my path as it opens infront of me and with the loves it has to show me even if they are “mistakes”
Taking risks and making mistakes is not LOVE i feel it is an experience of life! My experience says Love is an unpolluted magical feeling ..ignorant of all risks and mistakes..”IN LOVE” feeling is flawlessly magical , pure ,honest and very positive which can never be a mistake or risk. To Wait for that magical feeling in life i trust things will be more beautiful .
if magic is in front of me i would choose it as long as it will not complicate things. have anybody felt being so connected with a person even if both of you live apart from one another?even live a different lives and once again meet yet was separated again by distance. i have been getting signs about him but i am afraid to open up because i’m afraid to be seen as easy. i know he feels for me but none of us spoke out our feelings. maybe today is not the right time for us.i wish the universe will lead us back to each other again.
you should… and may be you will when keeping it in your heart will be so much more painful then saying it out… i was in love with a person for eight years… but i never spoke my feelings… but once in a party he was close and the fire got irresistable… for ten straight night i cudnt sleep and was so restless then eventually i build the courtage and called and talked… after two months… i was normal and i was comfortable… we never ended uop together but taking that risk made me feel like a winner… already… next time it was 4 years… and this time it was 2 weeks… i went after him as soon as i spotted… i am glad those practice sessions helped me not take more time… so go on… if u feel resisting it is getting unbearable and to do away with it is much mroe peaceful then holdiong it inside then u seriously have nothing to lsoe… pray to god and hit the button….
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