When I first spoke of my plan most people thought I was crazy for wanting to trade a secure comfortable lifestyle for uncertainty. Others thought I was brave and said they could never do what I was about to do. In their eyes and words I sensed the fear – fear of taking risks, fear of possible failure,fear of feeling alive once again.

Maybe I’ve been lucky but maybe just like Paulo says when you are following your personal legend the whole universe conspires in your favor!!!

So our “personal legend” (such thought-provoking terminology – could even be an oxymoron) would be to awaken out of our imaginary ‘self’ that has been constructed by family, society & circumstances.

I don’t see signs that society is heading for an enlightened era. It is very difficult & rare for any human to stop projecting blame, and instead turn the mirror inward to heal the source. Society does brainwash us continuously from birth. And fear, real or fabricated, does enforce various forms of restriction over every human. This is a nightmare of slavery but somehow we create a tolerable façade over it.

The only way to fulfill our ‘personal legend’ for the good dream is to overcome the false self/ego molded by society, and find Truth. Or Sat-Chit-Ananda, as said by Rajiv. Outstanding collection of thought from all contributors here.

I awake from my thunderous thrash.
My hands and feet soaked in blood,
I didn’t remember much.

Numb this body was,
From all that had happened;
I saw a horde of people,
All waiting to watch us die.

There were three of us that day.
One,
My partner in my crime;

Another,
A Man I never saw till that time.

Tables get ugly for this Man in between…
…The head priest came and spat on him…
…Followed by soldiers whipping him sore.

Everyone mocked this Man, called him “The fragile fool”!
They teased Him to get up and about,
Or show them if He could speak or shout.

My partner goes along with the chanting crowd,
So I think to myself… if I were to follow suit,
I might just be able to get off the hook.

I open my mouth to throw a curse,
Only to gasp in horror of a shameful truce

When I saw this Man again,
I felt Him reading my mind.
A circlet of thorns was jabbed into His crown…
…looking through His locks, a face covered in blood.
I saw more than just His eyes

And I shuddered under my dying breath,

“Forgive me Lord,
Oh Messiah,Son of God! “

The above link points to a picture of Lord Vishnu(Hinduism & Vedic Culture)

He is asleep in eternal bliss. Just like we dream in the night, his dreams are our waking world. He is in bliss because he is aware of His true nature as Sat-Chit-Ananta pure Existence-Consciousness-Bliss and still he allows the world to function as a play.

Anyway, coming to your beautiful question… I can possibly answer from my current view point only.

I believe the world will always be in chaos or be in a state of chaos. This state will continue as long as our minds are stuck to objects that give us pleasure. When we are able to withdraw objectively or even try to see objectively that the world is a dream and watch the events happening as a dream then we come to de-link from the chaos and for the first time are give the insight into the working nature of the world.

This is where karma kicks in. After this insight, the individual like an arrow set off from the bow continues towards his target without effort for He too is aware of His true nature. This movement towards His goals is what I believe you have stated as the personal legend. Most times we do not even know what our personal legends are.

God cannot possibly have goals because He is by nature Infinite … Ananta can be interpreted as Bliss or Infinite. If He is Infinite then there is no other. Hence there is no question of reaching/seeking anything.

So long as every individual in the world want to subject themselves to be considered the product of chaos then they will be subject to chaos.

The moment one withdraws to see the world as a dream and be guided from then on by His invisible hand, One will def achieve the personal legend.

Paulo, si estas leyendo esto dame una SEñAL por favor. Tengo 18 años y necesito de ti(o por lo menos d tus ideas :). Hace poco lei “Veronika Decide Morir” y me pude identificar mucho cn el sentir de varios de los personajes. Segun entiendo, el libro toca un poco de tu vida y por ende me gustaria muchisimo poder tener una pequeña conversacion contigo, un pequeño intercambio de ideas, o lo que sea. Espero que te haya disfrutado mi anecdota y por favor, te ruego que me des un SEñAL!

P.D. Si, creo que somos el sue~o de Dios. Mas aun, pienso que somos El experimentandose asi mismo. Yo y Yo

Atentamente, Pedro Rivera

This is also stated in the Bible. If you study the literal Hebrew word meanings, Gen 1:26 says

“we-shall-make human
in-image-of-us
as-likeness-of-us”

now translate the original Hebrew meanings literally to English:

“we shall make a blooded being,
in our shadow illusion [imagination, dream],
as a resemblance of us”

Then God says in Exodus 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself any graven image” [imagination, dream]

So this agrees that projections we make onto others are false, projections that we receive from society are false, and instead we should all be in a mode of receiving God’s dream.

La Rambla, the Columbus monument… Here standing for the first time, I remembered Bogota – the capital of Colombia. In my dialect “As asmu bogota” means “I’m rich”. And that’s how I feel: “Bogotá (rich), 2600 meters closer to the stars.” — That helped to see Santiago’s Star Belt: Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. That brought success to him.

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Did I tell you about the Chimney Sweeper from Casablanca? I met him far away. He was also wearing black… and the ladders were always with him… But can imagine? – he didn’t believe in happiness!

“Could scarcely cry ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep!
So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
(…)
And so he [Tom] was quiet; and that very night,
As Tom was a-sleeping, he had such a sight, -
That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack,
Were all of them locked up in coffins of black.

And by came an Angel who had a bright key,
And he opened the coffins and set them all free (…)”
/Songs of Innocence, William Blake/

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All shepherds meet in their “C a s a b l a n c a”. The road to it is made by Daedalus. It starts in Ithaca and ends in Arcadia. There [in Arcadia] you can meet Urania.

Where are we? With the quest to know where we belong, looking around on all the seeming negative and positive attributes invented by men and we find ourselves here by ourselves, individually with fragile critic minds, perhaps thinking we’re stuck or we’re the best progressing amongst all the Guru’s lore’s, waiting to tackle some deceivers down.
There is a deceiving protocol in a human spirit that cannot be seen even with tries of physicians, and cannot be denied, it just depends on what experience of life you’ve gathered so far. It’s very sweet when it plods through the mouth and awareness should be a must in every man.
The unnecessary pillars of religions (impacted like a race of different endemics) cycling our minds and we know there lay the labyrinth contrary, since we began to understand the roots of life is when our quest to where we came from and where we’re going began. We were just thrown in the maze and got polluted with muddled arts of men, but the way is one way forward, there are keys in these mazes in our minds and somehow we’ve got to find them and utilise them wisely as life goes on.
There are keys of revelation, the revelation of the masterwork of the Creator, meditation though considered as funny or tripe, the way you want to call it if you’re a critique of it, it is one of the solutions. You can be able to communicate with the high power and make changes in whatever situation you’re in or someone else.
After all, seek not the end of creations; if it is difficult don’t go far, the beginning is the only alternative, good to the end, the end will be at the beginning. Seeking the way to the end would never extend us to the superior of the Creator, but leaves us extremely unsettled with firm obstacles high than where our planes inventory had ever reached, the rocket launcher or whatever beyond, however knowing, the importance and advantages of virtue.
We’re not alone in this world and had never been, whether in a closed cave or an abyss, there is air you’re breathing there, and it has eyes.
In other way, let’s live the present not by stuff that is beyond way forward, or to come after us, however aware not to spoil or to be spoiled the virtue that had been bestowed in our spirits. Ephesians 4 v 13-14 says (Till we all come to the unity of faith, to the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting.)

Here we see the Government corruptions, the religions boasting up on the other hand, save criminal activities, prostitutes and all to do with sins. This drives me to think of this Beelzebub story, when Jesus, says, if Satan drives out Satan, how can a kingdom stand? Well, the ideal here is how can humanity be equal and happiness prevail, when amongst in the law, there are people who are possessing corruption. Yes, the ones who distribute drugs and yet there are calling up “Drugs erodes your future—stoooop!” anti prostitution, when amongst them some are contended with various sorts of sexually diseases that had been gathered from a lot they slept with. And in religions, someone here is calling, come God is here not there, this is vanity, not all who preach good things are capable of doing it, they is something drawn there by deceiving.
We know there are many with this, there are many today and many there had been and the blame for us not getting exactly the first call, we shove it back to those who had lived before us and the one’s still following their steps.
We know we’re right, there are the once to blame. That’s where the truth we seek today began to be corrupted and where are we today? Seeking or mending, if we’re mending or the better picking up the pieces. We’ve got an interesting subject then; have ever one try to seek a pen in his hand latter to find out how stupid he had been?
Well, I guess that’s where we are, maybe, nothing is lost and nothing is broken, we’re trying to find a spot in things that had been purified already, thus spoiling with too many footprints which are to be followed as well by those after us.
Many of us don’t accept the radiance of glory within us; we resist it, we live by men made naturalism, we fall in their wit tramps. History has got it all, but, all the centuries that had prevailed, truth and liars got mixed together like the grains of sugar and salt and should we let our offspring keep on inheriting what we have. I know this is very complicated, but if we don’t, then the worse has them.

As the scripture of John mentioned, at the rejection of Christ by the Pharisees, behold a high Priest came and said.
“Nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people and not that the whole nation should perish”
The Pharisees knew of the advent of Christ, but when Jesus emerges amongst them, they couldn’t believe, I guess they expected a star to fall from heaven to earth, claiming it is the Son of God or an extraordinary UFO to make rounds attracting every eye before it launches on the earth.

Now is the time, now that you’ve grown up in too many complicated experiences of life, now is the time, for you and me to ask ourselves where we are? Of course, do so, all what your sight and hearing had collected to now on, by how I had explained bellow, muster the works of gathering and group them as group A, that you had accepted from others, mark as, B. Now, what had you achieved so far? Which group has the highest elements that had kept you strong and achieved the best you have? And is that the best you had wished all along? Are you satisfied? Didn’t they brainwashed you? Or you had found your own truth? Or you still got a lot you want to learn?
The truth is, it’s not enough what you’ve got so far, no matter how old you are, in your thoughts you still determine to extract the aspects of life, because you know there is a lot in it, by doing so you’re wrong in some levels, for some of these things you seek to know are none of your business, there are the creator’s business, stay away this hurts! Unless you’re strong, reader, go on tell us, where are you?

pleasant nights and good days.

Me, I started late in life to free my spirit. Some people do not like that, because their expectations must be corrected – when I correct my life, and that is a threat to themselves, they loose what they have – and do not always like what is new.

So my experience is that both sides will come into situasions that are less comfortable, and fair is one of the problems I/we have to fight against. Well, since it is my will to change, I can go throught that, worse for those who wants everything to stay as it is in their life, and get colored of my choices. It is like people get addicted to each other.

In sociaty, well – not popular either. People get suspicious, and it raise questions about your person/personality. Feks if you are trust worthy, a dreamer, so on…. The small steps are hardest, but worth it, then when it become natural for myselves, it is easier, and will become natural for others.

Best regards May Tove

Best regards May Tove

(What happened to me that set me on the path of my personal legened was a humiliating bankruptcy, a painful breakup, a cancer diagnosis, a case of alcoholism, and a host of other demonic episodes that almost led to my suicide. What kept me alive was the understanding that these things had to happen so I could follow my personal legend unencumbered by the past.)

God is not a leader, but I read that the Bible teaches God speaks to us in 3 ways: prophesy, dreams, and the thummim and urim. You taught me that by telling me about the thummim and urim and then I searched to find that information about the Bible.

I don’t know what is so important about hearing God’s voice or fulfilling God’s purpose for us on earth, if he has one, but I do know that I used to have leaders that I looked up to and responded to, but that I don’t have leaders anymore. I lost the leaders whose every word I would hold dear because they didn’t teach me the very important information that I have on girasas and they won’t allow me to teach them what I learned and so they don’t know me or understand me.

Now whenever I go somewhere I am looking for new leaders; in every face, at every gathering, in every meeting. When I find the new leaders, I think I will be happier.

God held me as a follower and now it’s hard to change.

Our world and life on the earth are in need of a huge shift in perception of how powerful we all are, and, apparently, more and more like minded people are coming together and the movement is growing fast.

On the other hand, even thought today we have science to support the belief that the power is within us, I believe a long time will pass before the old paradigm can be broken. Unfortunately, the idea that our power is controlled by something we cannot change, for example our genes, will continue to paralyze and victimize an impressive number of people.

Love,
Rosanne

I do not know if God exits in this world but I certainly know that I exist. I am here and some where deep inside me there is another person who always talks with me.

I do not know if that person is God, of Super God or Father or just me.

The inside person who always I want to opens his door and lets me in. He never says no, he never dislikes the food, he never dislikes the environment, he never dislikes the face I see around the world, he never dislikes the smell and he never dislikes anything. He is perfect- a perfect human being.

He never tells me that weather or not I should do anything for him. He is very pure and he is very kind. He for me is like the father who can give me advice all the time.

Always listening to him, makes me think that, “It is my mood that creates the climate”. It is me somewhere hidden to come out and show to the world that I am what I am and not what others makes of me.

But, as I see others- I try to see same me, as they are also the human beings as I am. But again, why do they do look different? Why are they upset with there job, with there boss or even with there wife?

What is wrong with them when I do not see any wrong on me? What is the wrong with the food when it does not speak anything by itself? What is that we think we should do all the time when we should think about that perfect man inside us?

Why to get angry with other person when you cannot talk with the best person inside you? or Do you even know it exits? or May be we think him as if a God or Diving or Supreme.

Whatever it is, Whoever it is, It is inside me; it is inside all of us. We just need to think if he exits.

We are not heading anywhere and God will not ask anything from us. He only shows us the path, this path is based on truth. When somebody follows and listens to him carefully, he achieves what he desires, at that moment, his desires are not only his but might be of that perfect man too.

O filho que é obediente e manso, calmo e suave, tranquilo no seu viver, é aquele filho que faz orgulhar-se o pai dedicado, posto que este pai tudo lhe entrega, de todo o mal lhe protege, lhe dá todas as direções e caminhos, lhe dá morada e está sempre a consolá-lo na dura caminhada da vida…
À este filho se diz ser o sonho de todo o pai, como luz que surge ante de toda pergunta e bálsamo para todas as feridas…
Já ao filho ingrato e desobediente, não digno das honras dadas por seu pai, que a tudo confronta sem humildade e em pior momento do proprio pai se esqueçe, fazendo com que toda gloria por ele dada seja em vão…
Este filho torna-se então o pesadelo de qualquer pai.
Sendo assim, somos, ao esquecermos as palavras do Pai, que morreu para nos redimir de todos os nossos pecados, seu pior pesadelo.
Tal como o filho ingrato, somos uma sociedade ingrata para com o Criador e ao esquecê-lo, nos tornamos o pior pesadelo de sua criação.

It’s comparable to how the englishman transformed his thinking concerning Santiago’s learning from the caravan and his learning from books–to really evolve from lead to gold, i must forget attachments that i have to my own knowledge and unravel the layers that i have placed around myself.

Thank you for your book. I’ve read it twice, and both times i went through a crucible.