Comments on: The seventh and last cardinal virtue: Equilibrium http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/11/12/the-seventh-and-last-cardinal-virtue-equilibrium/ Sat, 26 May 2012 23:51:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Best http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/11/12/the-seventh-and-last-cardinal-virtue-equilibrium/comment-page-1/#comment-782291 Best Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:12:05 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/warrioroflight/?p=80#comment-782291 Is it lateral thinking, that you mean by Equilibrium Is it lateral thinking, that you mean by Equilibrium

]]> By: Olta Ana http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/11/12/the-seventh-and-last-cardinal-virtue-equilibrium/comment-page-1/#comment-519726 Olta Ana Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:34:49 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/warrioroflight/?p=80#comment-519726 Dear Paulo, First I'd like to say that the last cardinal virtue is the most difficult to understand. All my lifetime I tried to avoid the bad behaving and make as much good as possible, but as much as u live you see that even those which we think are good acts in fact they aren't. In such cases we use the only thing, that we think it is needed, or logic, what we was told, what we had learned, even though somewhere deep inside us we know that we have another voice to hear, that it would help us better. Sometimes it is our own intuition, sometimes a sign, others an angel, who knows? You can even make confusion with them or think that they might be the evil, because they try to satisfy your own desires. You have given there above 5 different examples about how real equilibrium is like. WE HAVE IT INSIDE US BUT WE DON'T DEAR TO USE IT, BECAUSE IN OUR HEAD WE START THINKING THAT THAT IT IS NOT THE RIGHT THING TO DO, AND SO WE END UP MAKING ANOTHER MISTAKE. IF WE ALL WOULD POSSES THIS EQUILIBRIUM, AS START IT WOULD BE NO NEED TO SAY "I M SORRY!" Every time I don't listen to my intuition and do what I THINK it is the right thing instead of doing what I FEEL I should be doing, I feel very sorry. Let me tell a kind of story of mine. Since I know that I can find God and his answers wherever I m looking at or hearing at etc. I use this technique everywhere. Those last weeks I've been staring at the sky when it is cloudy. The vision I have is one left eye almost perfect but who looks down to earth with a direction from up left to down right, staring at the church, which by the way is close to my house. I just couldn't understand what he was trying to tell me, but I knew that one day he would tell me in one way. Last week I went to Paris and I entered in a Catholic church to visit it. It was la basilique "Le sacre Coeur". During the time that the others were visiting the place, my mother invited me to pray together, but I couldn't concentrate an I was staring at the picture of Jesus in front of me. Suddenly I started to feel a bit sad, and I knew why. It was a sign. I continued to stare at Jesus and his opened arms didn't look in the right position to me. The left one looked like it was rising a bit higher from its position, and the right one was going down every time Jesus seemed to turn his face to the right one. But when his face turned in the right place, when he was just looking ahead, his arms turned at the right position, in equilibrium, and his golden heart was shining. I knew there how I should act to find real equilibrium. That was my answer to all those little signs in the sky. The direction they was looking at it was the same of Jesus arms. I think the message he gave to me it was : DO WHAT YOU FEEL YOU SHOULD BE DOING AND NOT WHAT YOU THINK YOU SHOULD. Even though I m not pretty sure yet. Maybe there might be some other detail to understand but I m sure I'll find out one day. As for now it is still fear who will make life difficult to me. Fear that my heart it is not "golden" enough as to be followed, but maybe even that is a mistake. I'll find it out, anyway. By the way I liked very much the first story, the one about the Buddhist lady. The advice of the monk. I guess a parent has to act that way, and God too. Love Olta Dear Paulo,
First I’d like to say that the last cardinal virtue is the most difficult to understand. All my lifetime I tried to avoid the bad behaving and make as much good as possible, but as much as u live you see that even those which we think are good acts in fact they aren’t.
In such cases we use the only thing, that we think it is needed, or logic, what we was told, what we had learned, even though somewhere deep inside us we know that we have another voice to hear, that it would help us better.
Sometimes it is our own intuition, sometimes a sign, others an angel, who knows? You can even make confusion with them or think that they might be the evil, because they try to satisfy your own desires.
You have given there above 5 different examples about how real equilibrium is like.
WE HAVE IT INSIDE US BUT WE DON’T DEAR TO USE IT, BECAUSE IN OUR HEAD WE START THINKING THAT THAT IT IS NOT THE RIGHT THING TO DO, AND SO WE END UP MAKING ANOTHER MISTAKE. IF WE ALL WOULD POSSES THIS EQUILIBRIUM, AS START IT WOULD BE NO NEED TO SAY “I M SORRY!”
Every time I don’t listen to my intuition and do what I THINK it is the right thing instead of doing what I FEEL I should be doing, I feel very sorry.

Let me tell a kind of story of mine.
Since I know that I can find God and his answers wherever I m looking at or hearing at etc. I use this technique everywhere.
Those last weeks I’ve been staring at the sky when it is cloudy.
The vision I have is one left eye almost perfect but who looks down to earth with a direction from up left to down right, staring at the church, which by the way is close to my house.
I just couldn’t understand what he was trying to tell me, but I knew that one day he would tell me in one way.
Last week I went to Paris and I entered in a Catholic church to visit it. It was la basilique “Le sacre Coeur”.
During the time that the others were visiting the place, my mother invited me to pray together, but I couldn’t concentrate an I was staring at the picture of Jesus in front of me.
Suddenly I started to feel a bit sad, and I knew why. It was a sign. I continued to stare at Jesus and his opened arms didn’t look in the right position to me.
The left one looked like it was rising a bit higher from its position, and the right one was going down every time Jesus seemed to turn his face to the right one. But when his face turned in the right place, when he was just looking ahead, his arms turned at the right position, in equilibrium, and his golden heart was shining.
I knew there how I should act to find real equilibrium. That was my answer to all those little signs in the sky. The direction they was looking at it was the same of Jesus arms.

I think the message he gave to me it was :
DO WHAT YOU FEEL YOU SHOULD BE DOING AND NOT WHAT YOU THINK YOU SHOULD.
Even though I m not pretty sure yet. Maybe there might be some other detail to understand but I m sure I’ll find out one day.
As for now it is still fear who will make life difficult to me.
Fear that my heart it is not “golden” enough as to be followed, but maybe even that is a mistake. I’ll find it out, anyway.

By the way I liked very much the first story, the one about the Buddhist lady. The advice of the monk. I guess a parent has to act that way, and God too.

Love Olta

]]> By: Marta Maria, from Brazil http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/11/12/the-seventh-and-last-cardinal-virtue-equilibrium/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Marta Maria, from Brazil Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:06:59 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/warrioroflight/?p=80#comment-319 Bravo! Bravo! Bravissimo!!! For you Paulo and for your "team" working in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil! That's what we need to do! You are a example to be followed by other people. We always have something that we can give or that we can share, even if it's just our time. You help with your money, that's a priceless help. But I truly agree that everybody can do something for others in need too. We just need to think a little more and discover how can we also make it. We are a brotherhood and we need to understand that. We need each other to make this world a better place to live. For all, really really for all the people around the world. "Nobody is an island, as John Donne said once." like you again so wisely said. So again, I have just one thing to say to you: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, PAULO!!! My brazilian heart is in heaven with this news! With lots of Gratitude, a deep Respect and a big Love! Marta :) Bravo! Bravo! Bravissimo!!! For you Paulo and for your “team” working in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil! That’s what we need to do!
You are a example to be followed by other people. We always have something that we can give or that we can share, even if it’s just our time. You help with your money, that’s a priceless help. But I truly agree that everybody can do something for others in need too. We just need to think a little more and discover how can we also make it. We are a brotherhood and we need to understand that. We need each other to make this world a better place to live. For all, really really for all the people around the world.

“Nobody is an island, as John Donne said once.” like you again so wisely said.

So again, I have just one thing to say to you: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, PAULO!!! My brazilian heart is in heaven with this news!

With lots of Gratitude, a deep Respect and a big Love!

Marta :)

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