What was major turning point in your life?
A pilgrimage was my rite of passage. All of a sudden, walking during 56 days from France to Santiago de Compostela, in 1986, I realized that the connection with God was simpler than I thought, and that was better to, instead of trying to understand why am I here, start being here and accepting that God must have a reason for that. I my case, I always thought of being a writer, but I was 38 years then, and I thought it was too late. However, at the end of the pilgrimage, I said to myself: if you want to be here, you need to fight for your dreams. And I decided to write my first book.
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Dear Paul from Austria,
Our emotions are energy, energy in motion in us. Fear is often paralising, it stops us in life and blocks us and our natural energyflow. As I see it, it is part of the parcel of being here in the physical world to have a share of fear to deal with and overcome.
As you mention, acting and moving is a key to overcome fear. We stay blocked when we think that we have to wait until we´re not afraid until we can do something – and so we let the fear grow in us and stop us even more.
What I´ve learned is that we need to access the part of us that is deeper than our emotions and to act from there. Well, I´m afraid and I´m doing this anyway because I know it´s the right thing to do, or my heart tells me to, or whatever we call our deeper motive. When we act despite of fear, the fear dissipates. Somebody sometime put it this way: “Do what you fear and watch it ( the fear) disappear).
It´s been my experience many, many times when I´ve dared to do what I really, really needed to do that when I finally dared to act, suddenlly all the emotianal turmoil and at times breathtaking fear was completely in a space and flow behind me. I entered a new way of being which at that particular moment was fearless. This has happend at cross-roads in my life where I know that the decisions I took and what I did changed the level I lived my life on.
I was born with a slight paralisis of the right side of my body and I grew up in and emotionally very sick home where there was much fear. Exactly fear and paralisis have been and are two teachers in my life.
A few years ago i learned from American Indian Medicine that when we dare to access our open heart of courage, we access a new energy-flow.With the daring energy of an open heart can see clearly what is challenging us and we access all the resources
that are available to us. This energy enables us to be able to do what our heart is telling us to do, even if our life is at stake.
I´m sure you have in you whatever it is that it takes to overcome your variation of fear, we all have. The question is, do we dare use it and live our lives from it?
I hope to contribute to your life with this. Remember, you might be afraid but your true nature is love. And love transforms.
There is a pilgrimage to be taken inside every one’s life….
i HOPE SOMETHING LIKE THAT SHOULD HAPPEN TO ME ALSO.I CANNOT SAY HOW HAPPY I AM BECAUSE I EVER KNOW YOU.THANKS,BYE
beautiful life…
Dear Paulo,
I came onto your blog seeking some guidance, some information as I find myself at a crossroads again. I was just speaking with a friend of the pilgrimages that are featured in your texts and so I was glad to hear from you what role this played in your life. To briefly address your other question about how much the reader should know about you – I prize honesty above all; honesty with ourselves and with others. Hearing the trajectory of your life’s/work/love, etc. is enormously helpful for someone like me who is continually finding the courage to awaken, to pursue dreams, to find love from within so that I can recognize it in others.
Question: You talk about not becoming paralyzed at the crossroads, about choosing a path and not looking back. Did you ever face a moment of paralysis which you had to overcome? It sounds like the pilgrimage was relevant to this?
Great. I’m here too.
God blass you.
My soul is calling out, I craved knowledge and I found you again. Thank you.