By Paulo Coelho
A blessing rejected becomes a curse.
(The Alchemist)
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a curse to whom? the one who offered the blessing or the one who rejected it?
I was wanting to ask the same question as ‘leafytunes’ above with one addition …… or to both?
SOMETIMES WE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THE BLESSING…
AND UNTIL WE LEARN MORE ABOUT IT WE HAVE AN IMPRESSION THAT IT IS
A CURSE
this ‘qoute’ surfaced here earlier also. I don’t quite get it.
why would anyone reject a blessing, if s/he can see it as one !
secondly is it really a blessing if under any situation it can become a curse. have u got this one wrong paulo !
if one can see, life itself, despite all it’s poblems, some heart wrenching ones too, life itself is a blessing, an oppertunity to know that which is beyond life & death. life is an oppertunity to make ‘god, christ, allah, krishna, whoever….,’ our ‘two drops of oil’ as we go about enjoying ( not necessarily laughing all the time, but maybe crying too sometimes, but enjoying nonethless ) ‘his’ world..
love
aditya
I think this quote from an article at http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog helps this quote here make sense (at least in the way I see it):
“I think we’re often sent small opportunities to test our readiness. If we block those small opportunities, we’re broadcasting that we aren’t ready to receive the bigger ones yet.”
Full article here:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/07/how-to-earn-your-first-love-dollar/
In other words, some blessings come in disguise, some blessings are smaller than we expect, but when we fail to accept (or even recognize) those as blessings and feel grateful for them, we aren’t really ready for the bigger blessings - therefore, that becomes a curse.
Someone asked above “why would anyone reject a blessing, if s/he can see it as one?” - that’s the problem exactly, some people don’t really recognize the value in smaller blessings and reject them. Besides, the original quote doesn’t say “A blessing that is recognized as such and rejected becomes a curse.; it only says “A blessing rejected becomes a curse.” ;-)