By Paulo Coelho
Decisions are only the beginning of something.
When someone makes a decision he is, in fact,
plunging into a powerful current
that carries him to a place
he had never even dreamed of
when he made that initial decision.
(The Alchemist)
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Like Don Quixote going off to fight his Wind mills!
this is phenomenal in the very true sense !
Decisions to…. decisions not to… In the name of justice and fairplay I had to make decisions not to pursuit a man I was infatuated with, inspite of my need for him, and inspite of his invitations, simply because it would hurt the woman that was with him at the time and would make me become someone I wouldn’t want to be. In the name of love I chose not to be free mentally of him for more than two years, and that way at least I would keep that frail thing that was “us” alive. Decisions not to can be really paralyzing, but in the end after all the frustration they carried me into today, where I am happy I didn’t betrayed myself and acted with integrity.
And on that base, whenever I am able to make a decision to do something, it comes reinforced by my instincts, exploding in endless and unthought of opportunnities.
This week-end, for example, I decided my next career/job I still want to be around people, but I want to learn to make my thoughts/voice heard. In the morning I bought a domain for a website, and by evening of the same day, I heard there was a local radio show looking for a collaborator, no experience necessary, just the right attitude. This was beyond my wildest dreams!!!
Indeed.. Making decisions are only the beginning of the things that are to come. And because we made the decision it doesn’t mean that we are certain of the things that come with it. Uncertainty…
-Angeline
I made such a decision today… God alone will know the outcome…
Love & dare to decide, Paul
C’est clair, ça fait du bien les décisions
Lol heart
Every decision we make has its consequences…
So did I -Blessings Tania
Two years ago I made a life changing decision—it is not quite “finished’ yet but it has been right –it has been the best thing for me …like the boy traveling ,,traveling ..to seek his treasure—I too find it right here,in my heart and in those I love and in the day to day support one needs to travel our own particular life journey
I have read the blog numerous times and just decided to add my own thoughts—just finished reading ‘The Witch of Portobello”–a great read Love to all the “readers”
Decisions have to be think twice,thrice etc…. but there are some circumstances in life that we have to decide for simple reason that it would either do good for everybody or ruin their life.This is life! so wharever happens on the decisions that we made…we had to handle it and bear the consequences it may bring us.Good Day to everybody…always smile and live happy.
Don Quixote is the sanest madman … or the maddest sane man I’ve every had the priviledge to read about. LOL!
I think that a decision is the setting of an intention. When you move onto the path and begin working toward the manifestation of that intention, you never know what will happen…perhaps the end result is one that you intended at the beginning…perhaps the end result is one that is totally different than what you envisioned at the start.
It is the movement on the path that is the important thing.
The biggest decision, it is said, that we have made, is to ..be born. From the time we first breath to the last Breath, we have to take decisions. Crossroads and choices. Me, being a Libra, I ’see’ the scales going up and down, to find the Right decision, equilibrium.
I believe that we think that we ‘make’the decisions, but the decisions are based on our character, Self and circumstances, inluenced by others, by our needs, by our feelings, by time.
Yes, our ‘decisions’ take us to ‘places’ we have never dreamt of, because the future, or Eternal Now, will be the result of the decisions of others too. We are just a small piece of the puzzle of life. Let’s hope for the Right Decisions bringing us to the Light.
Love,
Thelma
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Today is a …musical day.
Love,
Thelma
My beloved Thelma, someday in this month will be your birthday (since you are a Libra) i will be celebrating that day too ;)
All days are music-al days ;)
Love and Graditude
Annie
We always have the choice to do or not to do in life. Sometimes we make the right decision, and sometimes we dont. And that is the way its going to be for us all throug lives.We cant be right at all times. And that is the problem with we human beings. We want to make the right decisions all the time, and that’s what paralyzes us.
My dearest ANNIE, ..my third daughter!!
{My first was born on the 10th May, 1971 and the second on the 7th July, 1980. In between, it was…. the Turkish invasion, 1974, again mentioning it dear Paul from Austria!]When is your birthday, Anne? Your are such a sweet girl and beautiful soul..
Love,
Thelma
My birthday is 8th December, 1983… :)
i really consider you like i m a piece of you, beacuse i always carry you in my heart, always will, and you help me be as beautiful as can be..that is what mothers do..help their children fly..and love them for who they really are..
Love and Graditude
Annie
And another one thought…i may got my love from music from you… :)
Love you
Annie
Che fece …. il gran rifiuto
To certain people there comes a day
when they must say the great Yes or the great No.
He who has the Yes ready within him
immediately reveals himself, and saying it he goes
against his honor and his own conviction.
He who refuses does not repent. Should he be asked again,
he would say no again. And yet that no –
the right no — crushes him for the rest of his life.
My Annie, you are a Sagittarius, like my grand-daughter, Elisso[1996]. She is a sensitive, vivid, independent, outgoing happy girl. God bless you all and all the children of the world. She teaches me..how to use my lap-top! We both have the ‘WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER’ and we communicate, although their home is….a floor above of ..mine!!! You can do the same too: name.surname@hotmail.com
Love,
Thelma
p.s. my birthday, although ..old people do not celebtrate for ..becoming older, is on the 23rd. On the cusp…My daughters say that’s why I am a little ‘mad’!!
T.
No need tell my age, because my face does that for me ;) (someone once said I’m a young man with an old face;) Maybe even a child with an old face… lol whatever I am, I’m me myself and perhaps the age of Aquarius…;)
Love to my dear star gazers…;) Paul
Yes, dear Suzanne, a wonderful poem by Constantinos Kavafis. I remember it so often, me always saying the ….right No.
My dear Paul from Austria, Melk, [it was not Melk, we were in May, but Heiligenkreuz. I found photos in the internet] I thought that it was only….ladies not telling their age! I do not mind telling mine, I am proud of it, because I can ’sense’ it on my …aura [and on my ..feet]. I have left behind so many uncertainties[is it a correct word I use?] and .. the Great Expectations!!
It seems that I have a ..karma with Aquarius. My husband and my grand-son now 16 are both. Sometimes I do not know how to ..reach them, closed into their Towers.
Love from the star gazer to the ..cloud dweller,
Thelma
Somewhere i read that when growing, we become not what is our Sun Sign but our Rising Sign the moment we were born..And i think that this is true, maybe that is why I am so sensitive..Cause I am Pisces.. And also i ve read that the Moon sign also refers to one character..So it s like i m not a sagitarious at all..who knows….And maybe that is why i am so sensitive and i feel the rain or the sea talking to me or singing…
p.s Yes you are right on the cusp :) ‘Mad’ or not, ‘mad’ people make all the difference, because they have the courage to be ahead and show all the possibilities of life …you are so special…
I ll make an account too :)
To the cloud dwellers and star-gazers,
grown-ups with the heart of children…
Love and Graditude
Annie
My dear Thelma, I did see your post against my photo, but it disappeared… anyway I did see that you visited Heiligenkreuz and not Melk as I assumed. Who knows, our paths may cross one day…;)
Love, “the cloud dweller” Paul
PS Aquarians are perhaps a little difficult to reach… but worth the effort…;)
@ Thelma : annie.couyou@windowslive.com
My dear Annie and Paul from Austria [ I have 'deleted' my note about Melk, because I found out that it was 'published'in the Google too -make a search, you will find my younger daughter there- and I felt embarrassed and she was ...annoyed of my photo too! They all want me to be on the ...back-stage!]
Dear Annie, my mother is a Pisces. She used to read us poems instead of fairy-tales.. The Cypriot musician, Achilleas Lymbourides, who wrote amonst others ‘Τα μαύρα μάθκια’ -you know we speak a dialect-;’The black eyes’ and died recently, was her first cousin. You can find his songs in the internet. [Listening to all kinds of mucic will make your music, even reacher..]
Alas for my ..rising star Scorpio, Mars the fighter… I hope that since I am a …Warrior of Light I will use my…powers for the Light!!!! I read somewhere, that the only hope for a Libra to make ..decisions is a Scoprio rising star. As for the cusp, I noticed reading “Btida” that the witches’ sabbath are every 22/3 and 23/9. The dates of my sister’s and my birthday!!! It is the opposite as they call it in Astrology. Love unites us.
Paul, it seems that I am right calling you ‘cloud dweller’, you have ..adopted it. As about the Aquarians I can ..read them as a book now, as I am with one since I was…16 years old.
Have a nice day.
Love always,
Thelma
My dear Thelma, I just saw your mother on the virtual exhibition..and what i saw was a child smiling.!!! i really did see that!! how loving and generous of her to give her children everything that she knows of life..:) i like that …
I have definitely heard of the black eyes, i will search for the other songs, i m intrigued :)..
Last night i realised it too that the witches’ sabbath is on your birthday :)..automn equinox…so it is like all the universe will be celebrating that day!! :)
Scorpio is one of the signs that i admire.. most Scorpio people i ve known , they are so strong and they always strive for what they want..and when they fall , they always find the courage to get up again, and they are reborn.. they are true warriors of light!! and your light shines till here beside me..
Love and Graditude
Annie
My dearest Annie,
You are right what you say about the Scorpions being strong and that they have the ability to be ‘reborn’ from the Ashes.
May be it is his influence that helped me get up and ..stand on my own feet to face.. reality many times. But, as I said in the Blog, about time and chances, there is a ‘proper’ time and a Karma for everything.I think also, thant whatever happens to us, is not only Good or Bad. Both have the opposite inside.’Ουδέν κακόν αμιγές καλού’. Nothing bad without good.[Is is the correct translation??]
I have also just noticed about my Mother, who can hardly move from arthritis, that she is ..Light. She listens to music, radio, she reads books [ even the '11 minutes' without being shocked!!Her Soul is opened to everything] and everyday she expects the news-paper.. When I was younger and used to get angry with her, because whenever I was complaining about somone or somebody, she used to ..be tge other’s lawyer, trying to make me see the other’s position and ..calm the …Sea…
LOVE,
Thelma
My beautiful Thelma, I agree with what you say, about Good and Bad..There is nothing without the other…(νομίζω το μετεφρασες σωστά)..I do believe in Karma, and that we chose to come here…But i dont know if there is proper time for everything..who can say if something someone does is at the proper time, if he doesnt try ??
Thank God you are a fighter,I m glad because i had the chance to meet you :)i hope to learn this too..
I believe that Paulo Coelho’s books are for open-minded and open-hearted people..
May Light always follow you in the Sea, either the sun or the moonlight…
My Sea now has a shore..
Thank you
Love and Graditude
Annie
decision! decision!. well right now i made a decision to submit my views. it’s everyday we come up to make decision for the better or for the worst. well i still believe that we still make choices that affect the person residing within us. it’s like a call, if u attend it will be go answered otherwise it will be a missed call. here the decision is not what u do everyday but were you thinking when you were doing it. FOR-EXAMPLE someday u were walking on the road and u saw some beggar asking for money. you gave some money with a feeling that it would sufficiently be enough to fill his empty stomach n the other hand you could have been less bothered.
Making decision that would make us better in order to make other people life less painful is not the decision BUT a choice in which you have showed your existence to be nothing but a part of that almighty plan in which he has decided your role to be of a great man.