Who is Paulo Coelho, The Warrior of the Light? To those who want to follow your steps, what advice would you give them?
In my wonderings I came to believe that a person has a personal legend to fulfil. What is a personal legend? It is the reason why we are alive. In my case this legend was to share my ideas with others through writing.
We have dreams, that are not necessarily the dreams that our parents or society had for us. So, we must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives. Dare to be different. You are unique, and you have to accept you as you are, instead of trying to repeat other people’s destinies or patterns. Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not. Normality is the capacity to express your feelings. From the moment that you don’t fear to share your heart, you are a free person.
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As children we have dreams. We have ‘idols’. The more open our world is the more opportunities may appear in our vision and our horizon. It is the duty of parents and teachers to encourage children in dreaming and let them freely chose their way.
Fear is making the decisions difficult, because there in front lays an ..unknown path. One must be brave. Then .. destiny decides, because for each one of us, there must appear a .. teacher, a mentor, a figure or an ‘omen’ that will give us the psychological support. Because, I think, we are born with the desire to find our Soul mate, so that we will transcend our mortality and have Love in our path. It is the need to have our feet on the ground but also let our souls fly towards our dreams.
Love,
Thelma
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Absolutely right answer. I can’t understand why people try to be like someone other, who is a music star or any other famous person.
There is an interesting thing about me: I read a lot of books by Coelho and some other books which tell how to reach your dream, to fulfill your legend. It helped me to change my image of the world but the most stupid is that I can’t understand or find MY legend. I tried to recollect my child’s dream but it gave me nothing. I have some ideas, but I’m not inspired with them, and inspiration is the essential part of your dream, it’s what Coelho calls Agape – the highest form of Love – in his book “The Diary of a Magus”.
That’s why I’m quite confuse about what to do: I’m eager to achieve my goal, but I don’t know what it is and I understand that it’s only me who can find out it.
Great writers and classics were able to whisper magical (but realistic) words that still affect our souls and hearts.
Simply “listen to your heart” :-)
All of us have deep inside us some kind of certainity that we are here for a reason or a mission or a destinity or something that has to do with ourselves only.
The idea is not new at all. It is very “ancient”.That’s why it is so precious. I think to be able to follow your own way has something to do with the degree of maturity you have reached.
Kids follow models till they grow. Then start being orginal: while teenagers. That’s the moment we start choosing our way and it is a really difficult time for a human been to do that. ‘Cause there are many choises, many models around you, many suggestions and advices from grown-ups (some of teh grown-ups don’t have successful lives or careers, may be losers, but they give advices and the teenager can be tempted to follow and repet the mistakes…I did that, even later on).
It is difficult to follow your own legend, because first of all you have to “clean” yourself from old and certain wrong educational models that you had became one with. And discover yourself. “Who are you? Come out from the deep and talk to me. What do you actually want from this life? Is that what mom wants? Or perhaps your schoolteacher? Or your friend that you totally admire for all he/she does?”
Yes, it is difficult to follow your own unique way.But is not im possible. And it is the aim of every person in the world to be and feel free to act and be the way he/she feels and wants.
So that you transform in a worrior.I am 33 and I felt as a worrior whan I was 14, that’s when I start “revolutionate” myself and people around me. I remember talking to myself: nobody does anything to improve our family life, but me. If I’ve just had a sword….And later I discovered I don’t need to fight with outsider world, but with the inner one.
Paulo!
Será que muitas vezes as não acabam se acostumando com essa prisão que elas contruiram para elas mesmas?
Será que ainda há chance dessas pessoas se descobrirem?
This is what I just realised. The day you are ready to share how you feel is very liberating. You see no point in hiding anymore, that is you, warts and all.
Thanks for that answer.
Dear Paulo,
Here is what i believe:
The key is not to risk what we cannot afford to lose, the question is:
what are we willing to lay on the line.
Best words.You had given me the answer to a question was lying inside me.I feel great.Thanks so much.I agree.Definitely.We must go on our on way.
I like your interpretation, Luke, as I too feel that Paulo Coelho has done more than just “share his ideas with others through writing.” He has inspired others and filled their hearts with courage.
And you, dear Paulo, I like your definition of “sanity” (or “normality”) and “insanity.” This speaks to my heart. When I am out in the world, as I had been for the past twenty years before returning home to Texas, I was “normal.” More than that, I was vibrantly alive and free – free because I could express openly my feelings with others, either verbally or in writing. I feared nothing, or at least very little.
Then when I moved back here – back to the place, the region and the people where I grew up, back to living near family – it was as if someone had stuck a gag in my mouth. Suddenly I was that teenager again, that I once was, turning inward to her journals because there was no external outlet where her genuine thoughts and feelings were welcomed and accepted. No place to express myself except on the page…or here. (I realize in this moment that maybe this is why I return here each day – because here I am free to speak, free to express my feelings. And here I encounter others doing the same. A free exchange of thoughts and feelings. Here is my avenue to sanity.)
I can’t explain why I am, here in this place that I live now, a mute. I used to write about that all the time as a teenager – about being mute, unable to speak. I wasn’t really – I mean physically – but I felt that I was. I would even imagine myself mute; I would sit silent and just listen to others talk. Then I would go home and write in my journals for hours and hours, pour out all of the thoughts and feelings I had kept bottled up. All of myself that I felt I could not express aloud went onto the page.
Anyway, it doesn’t matter why I experience this sort of feeling again, living here. What matters is that I am realizing that “sanity” for me is someplace else, essentially any place else but here. For twenty years I lived a “normal” life. I felt free to express myself. I felt like I was being fully myself. I felt fine. When I felt I needed a really big change, needed to stretch or even break out of my entire persona (like breaking out of a cocoon), I would simply pack up and move to another city, another country. It was only when I came back here that I began to feel this tremendous pressure, this sense of “imprisonment” of the soul; it was only when I came back here that I began to be “insane” – by definition, “to behave like someone that I am not.”
The strange thing is that this place (as I suppose home does for everyone) has a kind of magnetism to it. Now that I am back here, it seems so hard to escape from that pull. It makes me think of astronauts aspiring to escape from earth’s atmosphere – that phenomenon known as “escape velocity” – the speed that must be reached in order for an object to escape the pull of earth’s gravitational force. That is what I need – to reach the emotional and spiritual equivalent of escape velocity. I did it once, when I was 18 – drove away and didn’t look back – I’m sure I can somehow do it again.
Thank you for your many words of encouragement (en-COURAGE-ment) and inspiration, Paulo Coelho.
Sincerely,
Savita Vega
Hello,
I read Coelho’s books and give more of my “lifepower” to follow my legends. So might it be that author’s legend was to give people faith/power/ability/desire to pick up readers legend and just go?
Obvious, I know…
Regards,
Luke
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