By Paulo Coelho
“Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of difficulties.”
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the idea is this wonderfull quote has kept me from going crazy in some parts of my life. it gave me strenght to overlook my misfortunes and think positively in what has come out of them. Thank you
Thank you to everyone for sharing your TRUE thoughts. I am feeling very grateful at this EXACT moment to all you kind and considerate people. You all seem so wonderful. You give me hope that i am NOT alone and you re-charge my willpower to share love for humanity. Peace
awwww T.T love it .. so simple yet so meaningful and deep !
Thank you Dear Thelma, you are a kind lady. The only reason I am on this blog is to learn, there is a saying – Learn more; then you will know how much more you need to learn.
I feel very happy to read most of the comments here, I feel most of us are on the same wavelength. There are some statements that I read that kind of become a mantra for me; like sometime back Paul from Austria had written – Forgiveness truly sets us free (this has become a mantra for me).
One more thing, I never ask a rhetorical question, because I really appreciate one thing – time, others and mine too.
Love always,
Nelson
Dear Nelson D’ Silva, I like your comment above. Your are one of those who ‘read’ and ‘think’. I also appreciate your humility, something that Christ has taught us. The Light inside us will eventually shine. You asked me the other day if I am the “Process Engineer” and I did not understand if you were ‘serious’ or you were making me a ‘rhetorical question’.?
Regarding your above statement I would like to add that the Revelation[which is written in my language] is a mystical book, written in an allegorical language and nobody can tell that he can decipher it. I think that it is arrogant for any one of us – human beings- to insist and maintain the idea that anyone or any religion is the … Prophet of the only Truth. We are all ‘seakers of the Truth’ in the journey of life, which is the expression and .. lesson for LOVE.
LOVE,
Thelma
P.s. I would also like to ask you to remember us when you are in Paradise. You never know!
Hi Savita, you had mentioned about Jehovahs witnesses in one of your comments and that 144,000 souls will be saved. Today’s reading is from the Book of Revelation and the number is taken from there –
I, John, looked and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion,
and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand
who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
I heard a sound from heaven
like the sound of rushing water or a loud peal of thunder.
The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps.
They were singing what seemed to be a new hymn before the throne,
before the four living creatures and the elders.
No one could learn this hymn except the hundred and forty-four thousand
who had been ransomed from the earth.
These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes.
They have been ransomed as the first fruits
of the human race for God and the Lamb.
On their lips no deceit has been found; they are unblemished.
I am pretty sure that there are a lot of souls on this blog who are in that group. As for me, I can only ask you’ll to remember me when you all are in Paradise.
Love,
Nelson
when GOD gives you what you want, its good but when he makes you wait for long, HE has something special to give. Dont be disheartened when GOD makes you wait and when difficulties doesnt seem to end.
GOD is not cruel, he does not give you difficulties which you can’t overcome.
to o boonyakanond:
yup, and its nice to be part of this…..memories are the constant reminders for us to do whats right and and prevent what is wrong. Lessons are being recorded through them, thats why its nice to keep our memories intact so we can scan them when time comes we nedded them……..
love,
sheng
This, it seems, is the key to both survival and genuine prosperity: the ability to convert, in one’s mind, the trials and the challenges into positive and even fruitful experiences. This, in the long run, is what separates the victim from the victor.
Think, for example, of the worst case scenario: of instances where individuals were imprisoned for years for crimes they did not commit, of P.O.W.’s who somehow survived and eventually escaped or were rescued after they were long assumed dead, victims or torture, of incest, of rape… the list goes on and on. The thing is that of the many who have gone through such horrendous experiences, there are but a few who not only survive but actually thrive afterward, who take from that negative experience something positive, something that ignites and fuels their lives ever-after. These are the rare individuals who possess the power of alchemy – the ability to transform the worst possible experience into a positive memory.
Studies have actually been conducted, particularly in the case of P.O.W.’s, to determine what makes these “survivors” tick – to determine how their minds work to convert such experiences, to understand how they not only survive such horrors but actually grow stronger for the experience.
This is a mystery indeed and one surely worth investigating further. However, I think that the lessons we can take from this are just as applicable to the challenges we all face in our ordinary daily lives. It is easy to roll over, show one’s belly, so to speak, and assume the position of the victim. It is far more challenging, and efficatious, to find a way to see the positive side even in the most negative turn of events.
I’ve tried to make this a habit: When someone cuts me off in traffic, I say, “Thank God!” because I have the certainty that only meters in front of me there must have been an accident waiting to happen. Only by the Grace of God – that person cutting me off – was I saved from a horrible fate. If I am late, same thing. I mean – I try my best to be on time, but if some unforeseen obstacle intervenes, I just think: “This is how it was meant to be. There is a reason for this.” This not only gives me peace of mind but allows me the perception to actually see the hand of God at work in my life. If I apply for a position and don’t get it, I am in it all the way, full-hearted up until the end, but as soon as the final decision is made, if I am not selected, I know that I am simply supposed to be somewhere else. There is no reason to look back with regret, but only with gladness in my heart – thankfulness that some divine hand is guiding in the path that I am supposed to take.
Love to all,
Savita
Is this all i have to do to be a part of this magnificent blog?? (testing 1,2,3)
Respectfully,
“O”
Very important and excelent advice to follow as it helps to grow, to move on in times of difficulties and keep hope and faith alive !
Love
Luce
know that your thoughts and words carry many throughout their day, where otherwise no light would be seen.
It is a miracle, that we keep in our memory, as treasures, everything that has influenced us in our journey and it is a gift from God that bad memories and pain fade.
Love,
Thelma
This is the basis of my belief, trust, faith and hope, that through all things I am loved and cared for by the God of my ‘misunderstanding’,
It is the evidence upon which my faith is based and not ust an idea, an abstraction.
This past year or so has been full of challenges: out of work for long durations, cyclic; low income; car totaled in a very small accident; when I had the car, two wheels were stolen off of it while I was at a spiritual conference; the copper tube plumbing was stolen out fo the basement and I had no… ah… services for nearly 2 weeks!!!!
This was stuff that wasn’t ‘my fault’, it just was. And yet I found that, day by day, my needs were met and I experienced a mental equilibrium and emotional equipose beyond my best efforts only because of the daily practice in spiritual surrender to the intent and will of my God in this world.
I have to point out that this is not an issue of spiritual vanity. Actually I find that this is what I have to do in a very practival way as I have found that, often, my egoic, self-serving purposes end up usually beside the point, irrelevant and, ultimately, of no consequence or impact.
I have to do it this way because, really, I am a spiritual weakling but I know where the power is.
So, it has gotten to the point where I welcome the ‘hard stuff’, the difficulties just to see what my God has in store, how we, together, are going to get through this thing. And the less ‘self’ I apply to the effort, the more ‘spiritual surrender’ I practice, the better off I am and the more the body of knowledge I accumulate that reaffirms my belief, trust, faith and hope as reality.
Thank you Paulo.
So true. Thanks for the reminder…
p.s. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and spirit with so many people!