What is your call?
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My call is: MERRY CHRISTMAS MISTER COELHO!!!
Big hugs!
Oh Paulo…my call…I request it to me too…
I ‘m like a jolly of the cards and I could to be confused for that, but I know I can do much things and in a way really special because the passion moves me in all things that I do, so I take much successes in my life…but no in love sphere.
My life is a life of artist,I love the nature…my eyes shine bright too when I find near me a white feather, the world and people…I’m as a glue between the groups of friends, I live the present and I take that life offer me and God gave me a beautiful voice to sing, I know I gift strong emotions when I sing, but my call…I don’t know.
I continue to love…
this is my call ;-)
friendly Nia
THE BLUE BALL!!!
Part One:
THIS IS THE CALL,
THE CALL FOR THE
BLUE BLUE BALL!!!!!!!!
This is the answer to the end of the doors;
Seven Storms live alone in the dark or at home;
/: Come up together!!! :/
In this Biz, all are swimming with the sharks;
I’m a dragon! I bite the sharks!
The dragons are here to say: Never forget only to pray;
And say: Hey, hey, hey!
/: Please Pray!!! :/
And the people are always happy! Yeah!
Here are my words;
I take the fire sword;
Here come the change, and then the angels cry, fall down and die!
Take one; don’t forget the game!
Hey! It’s me! I’m also a fan;
Don’t forget my name!
Yeah! Nia Wind is on the mic;
Don´t forget: I can bite!
So please say now “Hello!” to the dragons MXM!!!
Refrain:
This is the answer of the call! The blue ball doesn’t fall!
We like all people with love and peace! Please!
Don’t forget the animal decease!
Everybody must come up to the hill; cause there Freezze wait in still!
Don’t wait for the danger!
Stand up and shake!
Part Two:
The Angels die; Vampires are fighting;
We will see all, cause we like flying;
We life all on the blue ball;
The angels are in the hall!
This was the overload;
Only god can speak the last word!
You want to know why?
Listen!
We life all on the blue ball;
Now the angels run out of the hall!
The crows help the dragons;
They fight all for the peace in our world;
And a freedom for all the big blue balls;
Yeah!
Humans must pray to god, cause many people need more food!
Then we wouldn’t see people cry and die!
Save all on the blue ball;
This is the biggest call!
Let it go to all gods and lords, hold the swords!
/: Hey! Hello!!! :/
Refrain:
The blue ball doesn’t fall!
We life all on the same ball!
Alone the world will not call!
Come up to the hill, cause there Freezze wait in still;
And he fills! Yeah! He fills!
Don’t wait longer for the danger!
You are also a little ranger in this world!
So don’t forget your sword!
Part Three:
I speak with the death; said yes to the dark;
Oh! This was hard; I run throw the fire;
This was really a desire!
But then got come with a big help;
The angels spread their wings over myself;
And a wind blows me back into my mind;
How kind!
The true is reality!
In this world is so much fatality;
The light words are the key to do and work in harmony;
So the music will /: bring up the life!!! :/
Jesus!
Who saved all the people;
He said: Yes! Ring the bell, or you burn in hell;
This is love and this is ever!
So it’s running and so it’s coming!
For the patriots the war is too loud;
They are blind for the child in this time;
Is this really fine?
Now stop down and fight! Throw the storm!
/: It’s all right!!! :/
Refrain:
The blue ball doesn’t fall!
We like all people with happiness and peace!
Please! Don’t forget the animal decease!
The sun goes down when the moon goes up!
In this night, we dance in our best club!
Don’t give up! Don’t give up!
The blue ball doesn’t fall!
This was the answer of the call!
The blue ball … Call … Blue ball … Call … Ball … Call …
Yeah!!!
My heart is telling me to listen to her… Hehehe, I’ve spend the last several months digging into my heart and for the first time in my life I’ve found the courage to actually listen to her.. My heart is singing to me, telling me to follow my passions! And that’s just what I’m going to do. I got lots of them, I love painting, drawing, writing, singing, making music, I love helping and inspiring people when I can… I also like working with textiel and cross-stitching and who knows, maybe there are more things I’ll find in future tides that I really love to do.
Right now I’m in a folkband, I’ve had my first painting exhibition in a new-age store. In the past 6 days there’s been a huge benefit event here for the Red Cross and I greatly enjoyed helping and donating whatever I could. I’m also writing a book, which is actually a formulation of the way I look at life, of my experiences and feelings, my beliefs. It’s called “The 9 Pieces of Lisa”.
I also entered the Figurs Futur Illustration Contest, and lost. My heart’s telling me it’s not at all a bad thing, and that it’s good I participated in the first place.
Anyway…..
My heart is telling that I’m happiest when I do what I love to do most. I guess, in this perspective, you could say my calling is to be an artist and an inspirer… An artist of many kinds at that; painting, drawing, music, writing, anything I can try. And next to that, to be a supporting pillar to those who need me… Yea, I’m sure that’s it.
And what about you? What’s your call, mr. Coelho?
Good evening,
I am so happy that we have the chanse to answer to this question: “What is your call?”. Also interesting would be to be asked: “How many of you have answered to your own call?.
My call is: to know the world I was borned in (to travel) and to “drink and eat” the wisdom of it, filtrate what is good in it and offer it as a gift, but in a better and actualised version, back to the world. And to “lighten” the souls in need and make their transition in this life easier and beautifull as it should be.
My call is to filtrate… :) To clean everything around me… :) To let souls “breath” fresh air. And, also, as a part of my call is to let someone behind me to continue this work: my son. And he is chosen, as all of us are. Of course I will let him the freedom to choose in his life, and I bet he will be sufficiently smart to choose right. As my work is a great work. (I am not speaking about the job everyone of us has for a living, but about the real “job” everyone of us has, but not all know it).
FYI – My 2 year-old son has made a real PASSION in observing the bins outside the building, the cleaning ladies doing their jobs and when the garbage mashines come to pick up and “clear” the streets and houses…he even cleans the bank in the park, just because he chooses to do it. I didn’t teache him that…).
My son is also a kind and sensitive person and an action guy…I respect him and he knows that mom has a different aproach than the rest of the world. I respect him and his oppinion.
(I started to create his own dictionaire, with “baby words”. As psychologist I allways have been closely interested in children’s evolution and development, from “angel” level they come with into the world to something more advanced, named human been. And the “angel” part is under my study right now. I am so surprised he sometimes uses some words that seems to come from an ancient language I do not know. For ex.,one day he wanted to say to me: “I hear”. And he said: “Eco”. In Romanian we say “aud”, so there is no “eco” in it. But “eco” is part of many words that have connection with the meaning of sound or hearing, word comming from different centuries and languages, is like a primar language. I find this subject really interesting. There is an old movie about advanced babies…forgotten its name. I have seen it many years ago, before wanting to be a mom.
Other curious baby words:
“eappy” = bread (we say in Romanian “paine”)
“eaphy” = vacuumcleaner (we say: “aspirator”)
“eapo” = light (we say: “lumina”)
“bi-bi” = to drink (we say: “a bea”)
“feke” = fried smashed egs (we say:”omleta”)
So, coming back to the subject, my call is to listen, assimilate, filtrate and administrate back to the soulds in need, to the right moment they need “the medicine” from me (not earlier, not later). I am one of those people that help souls to discover and follow their calls… :) And, I have results, even since I was a little girl….(For ex. this evening one of my former students (a poor gipsy boy, condemned by society to become a looser and a trustless person,from the moment he was born,came today to me and seng carolls to me and my family. He is now a student to “Conservatory” (in Bucharest it is the Music University….University, people !!!! His other fellows perhaps are stealling or doing prison for bad behaviours, but he followed my advice and got a very educated young man. He used to be my student…13 years ago…13 again…oh man…my number…). And guess what: he has other 2 younger brothers…that study music to Music Highschool, a very elitistic place for tallented well educated teenagers…I-AM-SO-…-PROUD, people!!! I did a good job…That’s what I am talking about. I just found out about them few hours ago…
I am so -so sure that everyone of us helped others to discover and live their own legend. It is such a satisfaction. You don’t need to be a teacher to be able to do that. I did so many simmilar things while I was a little girl (I was one of the best students in my class and I choose to sit in my desk only wtogether with the poorest and the most “in need” children ever(many delincvents also)…And make them study and even … like it!!! And “teached” vulgar children to talk “nice’ And one of them, after 20 years, baptised her own daughter Adina…And, from “zero” student….she works now in a hospital…That’s what I am talking about!!! I-AM-SO-PROUD and happy God helps me do my “job”.
The examples above are not to tell you how cool I am. It is about answering the question with personal examples as they are for real and therefore more credible.
Now, everyone of you take 30′ before News Year’s Eve and do the list I told you with other ocasion: POSITIVE aspects of year 2008 / NEGATIVE aspects (meaning your own results, how much of your desires, mission, dreams became true, happened, what mistakes have you done and what are the next steps to follow in 2009. You know, like in accountancy: the ballance of expences and incomes….. :) If it works for companies, it should work for our soul also…
Mr. Coelho, thank you for your wishes, I am PROUD you choose my question (my mom asked me: who is that man in the computer and why is he saying your name? She is a modest person and doesn’t know computers or English or what blog means…but she is now proud of me…Thank you for this Christmas gift, Mr. Coelho. And I am happy to see you smilling!:) :) :)
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for everybody, both Christian and other religions!
Best regards,
Adina (and mom :)
My call is helping people.
I work at a school where all children have an intelligence between 50 and 70 IQ. They didnt function well at primary and so they come to my school in the age of 12-18 years old. These children are very interesting. They are direct and often not understood by normal adults. I am fortunate engough to be not so normal and understand and respect these children with other talents. Thats my call.
Have a nice Xmass everybody,
Love
Mirjam
to live, to love, to play, to feel, to hear, to see, to sound, to taste, to question, to answer, to wait, to grow, to change, to die, to live
Very interesting Task!
I try for a few days to find the right time to ask myself and answer of this question?!
First, I know since my childhood that I have a good voice.I meen there is a potential.
Second,I can describe in words and metaphor very good the art how I feel and dream( I can do it in rumanien languadge better than in english)!
Third I worck very good with my hands :I reach the people where they are trough seeing,touch for health,gong bathing and speeking about what I m seeing and feelig in their Aura.
More than that ,I like every material form of beauty:like pictures,design,arhitekture,form ,color and propotiones.
Since 7 years ,since I ´ve started to experience to be a mother,I love to give all this potentials to my children and all other that are experiences the same.
From time to time ,I trye to write in my day journals, my personal tale.A old magician has told me for one year to do it ,as a personal healtreatment.
My husband trye to encourage me to give up the stress with my holistic cosmetic studio,to stay at home with my children and do homeworck;it will be quiet but not enough for me!!!
Some how I need something flexible:to worck but withought so much responsability like now!How can I reach the people that I can help and they can help me?
My call is to be independent financial ,and to be free to manage my time every day withought apointments and stress that my children do not have in that day a good babysitter when I have to worck.To have the posibility to wake up how my spirit and body want and to be able to pick up the most potential of every day!
Love
Mirela(the woman in elevator)
My vocation is: YOUR CALL Paulo! ;-) :-D
My call is to help people along their life journey – to guide and support them as they learn to make choices for self, based on self-desire and needs. To love thyself before another through passion and talent. That’s my calling… At some point in my future I would love to write about ‘life’ from my perspective.
Dear Savita,
Thanks so much for sharing, I had to write after reading your entry. I even had a dream with you last night! (probably because I read your message late at night, I couldn´t write then and I went to bed thinking about things in my own Life). I saw you as if I were looking myself in a mirror.
Is like if I knew what you were feeling.
Sometimes I wonder if suffering is real or if it is a creation of my mind. Lately, I have desired so badly Someone to take me out of here to the better place, Paradise, even just for a while. To recover myself.
So I think I am now in that place because I couldn´t bear what is happening with helpless creatures. I couldn´t.
But I have to do something. I have done things trying to Help them, to Help, for example, a dog that I knew was suffering, but I couldn´t Help him.
I got really angry and frustated. Angry … til a point that I have desired to really punish and oblige humans to be kind with them, with the dogs they are treating badly.
I have desired that so strongly. To turn myself into a powerful force and oblige them to do the Will of the Goddess.
They should be scared. Humans, I mean. They should start to Understand what they are doing.
Jesus is behind each dog that is being mistreated.
Most of humans that are unfair with dogs, do not know what they are doing. They think dogs are happy when they tied them with a short chain the whole day. They think it´s ok if they abandon them in the middle of the road.
May the Goddess bring Light and Understanding into the Heart of ignorant humans. And may She do that in a gentle way.
If I were one of the ignorant humans who is treating badly a dog, I would like Her to Awake me.
But if the process of Awakening is going to last a long time, then may the Archangels with their strongh arms take by the throat the ignorant humans and oblige them to treat dogs and the other helpless creatures with Justice.
Dear Savita, you said that you rescue dogs from rough situations and you find them a good place. But on the other hand, another people is buying puppies at Christmas time just to abandon them for summer.
That is frustating. Is a endless chain. Is a chain that is not in the Truth.
If there is so many humans in the world that are still unawake and are treating dogs so badly, then it is perhaps better to stop a bit with the procreation of more and more puppies like if they were just a toy. It should be illegal that people can allow their dogs to have puppies to sell them.
A true animal lover, will always prefer to see them free in nature not as a slaves. Some of them luckier than others, but prisioners in the end.
Maybe it is time to take care of the ones that are already with us and try to provide them a Life the more possible in tune with their Nature. I know they cannot return to their habitats because they have no habitat; they are just an adaptation created by humans to satisfied their needs. They are neither Wolves, nor humans.
But the ones who are here, are indeed asking for a Change. Help.
I wish a miracle. I wish Light and Understanding in the Heart of humans. The Awakening of the Law from within. Then they will be the first ones in Knowing and all these words will not be necessary.
It’s christmas!!!!:
merry christmas
Buon natale
feliz navidad
عيد ميلاد مجيد (???)
圣诞快乐 (???
聖誕快樂 (???
Sretan Božić
חג מולד שמח (???)
メリークリスマス (????)
vesel božič
С Рождеством
My call is: I wanna prepare myself (studying more and more) to work some day trying to solve the problem with climate change.
P.S: I just finished one of your books, “The Valkirias”
thanks Paulo,
with Love,
Diego M.
I AM A …MISSED CALL!!!
LOVE,
THELMA
Just when I was writing the comments on your blog, something happened I do not know who did it but something really worse happened. The worse means, I was about to finish the comments but somehow I could not submit it in your blog because whole comments were deleted by mistake.
I am little surprised who did this? Was it me? Should I blame on the Keyboard of the computer? Should I blame on the God? Should I blame on your Web page, tell me Mr. Coelho?
What should I do? Should I say that it was my fingers which went on these keyboards and accidentally something happened? I am little confused to think NOW.
I think the previous comments that I wrote was better, I think that those comments has beautiful insights on how to express feelings at this particular moment.
What should I do now? Should I say that, I am feeling bad or should i think God does not wanted to show my true potentials for your valued question? I want your help, Just tell me what should I think? Should I think whatever happened was not my mistake or should I think that what am doing is not good?
There are many answers by many authors in your blog and I have read most of them. Some of them are stating that, they have published the books on there web pages, some of them are posting that they want to listen music, learn and educate and some still do not know what is there call?
What would be the best answer ? Our vision and emotions drive our action, but I am worried that you will not like my comment because this comment is not good then the before. The comment which I was going to “just submit”, which was far better than the comment which I am writing it now.
Who is to blame on this situation? or I think I should just ignore it completely and do not blame on anybody else. Why am I thinking that this comment is not better than the comment that I wrote previously, why am I thinking that I am not good reader than others who read your questions and answer them regularly? Well, I think I should accept the things as they are.
However, How can I forget the previous event that happened just before my eyes. The comments that I was writing could not be successfully be posted because something flashed in the Screen of my computer and it went disappearing. I was so disappointed. I think I should not, but I could not forget that event. I want to but i cannot.
Let me stop now. As far as my understanding of the question- it stated that,what is that I am doing now, or thinking now ? Tell me if I am wrong.
Well, all the above sentences and paragraphs will explain you that I was fighting to right good comment on this post. This is what I was trying to do and I was all the time thinking about what is that I am doing? Since I was thinking on what is that I am doing, I was all the time thinking the event that happened just before my eyes and writing in this blog about it.
Please read this article which was published in the Newspaper
http://mybheja.blogspot.com/2007/07/live-in-moment.aspx
After reading this article you will learn what I was trying to tell you.
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Live in the moment
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Live in the moment
Past was never yours
Future will be yours
Today is the Present
Live in this Present
Actions are driven thoughts
Like a flowing river
We create and Change
We fell and wake up
But any given moment
Will show us, tell us
Speak for us and teaches us
That we are a Human
An animal which thinks
At any given moment
with pleasure and happiness
With joy and forgiveness
With sorrow and happiness
We are just humans
My dear child, Just humans
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009 to you all. May the power of God give you what you want,
tell you what you want to hear,
listen you what you want to say,
teach you what you want to learn,
show you what you want to see,
smells what you want to blossom,
May the power of God delivers you, everything.
–Author of the book “Nature God”.
–http://www.kalwar.com.np
I think everyone’s calling is grounded in love , self expression in all forms ,and whether that’s artistic or being a humanitarian .Loving ourselves is a calling ,with joy being the soul purpose. To live an enriched life ..to be authentic and to believe in yourself .And have fun ,laughter along the way ..courage and coming together with like minded souls who are are on the same journey …Blessings Tania -
my call is to be free , as an arabic woman i face many challenges in my life trying to prove that iam equal to man & that “i am a sort of collector of religions i find my self i can believe them all”. first of all i want to be free to know my self better and to find my way. second i want to study religions mentaly & spiritualy , i want to find my own way to god not the way that been chosen to me by birth.
my call is simple… try to change the people around me, not on a bad way just for a good way.
Make them belive in faith, on they dreams… and most of all hope! all the people are losing they hopes… and that’s a shame.
Love your books! really amazing!
happy christmas from mexico!
To deliver a message.
What is my call? Frankly I dont have the exact answer, yet I feel the urge (or pressure) to give the smartest and deepest answer. But until now, I dont know….
At many times we act without really consciously knowing really where to go, why we’re doing so, or whether what we do is a call or merely an expected reaction towards certain stimuli.
However, it doesnt, or shouldnt stop us do things, which make us feel good about ourself, and enable people to feel good about themselves.
Mi llamado es..
tan confuso, diverso que no se realmente a que va.
Pero creo q va por el lado de llegar a rincones.. no a lugares conocidos, no ayudar al que es ayudado, sino a aquel q no es visto.. mi llamado va a aquello en ver lo que es invisible a otros…
mi llamado incluso es mas profundo que eso,
pero como ya dije
es tan confuso y diverso que realmente no se a que va.
I am calling you to say ” Thank you for showing me the way home.”
Seek wisdom.
Be a good leader.
Listen with my whole being.
Make my life an offering.
Be silent.
Be kind.
Learn as much as I can from everyone.
Teach whatever I can to others.
Pray for the life my heart wants…and never question what I end up with.
And always say thank you, thank you, and thank you.
Somehow I know I am in the middle of my calling-it´s been developing for all my life…Things hasn´t been at all easy or smooth in my life. I have always been kind of a loner even when surrounded by people. Looking back at this point in my life I see Gods guidence in everything. Things I´ve seen had to be seen by me, experiences had to be experienced…I am so ordinary and yet special to God. My fear is that I wont be able to fill my calling and this opportunity passes me by…I pray courage. Meanwhile I just concentrate on enjoying the journey, even though it sometimes keeps slapping me in the face :) and sometimes is really frustrating and dull… But there are moments :D !! That´s life. Human time seems sometimes slow but Gods time maybe so much diffrent. Things shouldn´t be rushed too much, there is time for everything. I trust that I am travelling the journey I should be travelling, but I must be able to make the decisions and choose paths myself. Signs are always there, I must just learn to read them better and better. And to trust my intuition more. There´s my call, or how I see it today at this very moment.
Love, Päivi
my call is the Ocean and her moods, the Wind which stirs her Waves, and the Sun that fuels those Gusts. these Waves that i ride with Pleasure, the same that cup my Oysters!
My call is to use the gift God has given me which is to encourage people as I can “see” who they really are.
Dear Paulo,
Thank you for this question, because at the moment my answer would be: ” I wish I know ! ”
In this Christmas time I’ll surch within myself the answer, the true answer and already now I know it will change my life when I find it.
Why ?
Because at the moment I’m not following my call, and therefore, to use your words, I am not living my personal legend which I should !
Easy !
Not easy at all but worth doing, sooner better !
Love
Luce
My call (mission) is to teach people about hypnosis and themselves; to gain an inner reflection of life. :)
I don’t know! When I try to see, feel, hear, touch, say it I feel this enormous power, energy, unfamiliar and I then feel that I am not yet to know because I am not yet ready. For the meantime to clear myself of the negative and to go with the flow and to find surrendering easier and to not doubt.
My ego wants to know so badly so that it can judge, plan, control, tell others for approval, regard etc all the old familiar stuff.
My time like everyone else’s is about to arrive and then we will know.
My call is inextricably related to healing. Healing myself and, therefore, the world. I must find the courage to write, to write more, to share my writing. My life, my lessons, my insights, my views have a purpose. A purpose beyond myself. I must have the courage to put these lessons, thoughts, insights, into words so that others can be a part of the same healing. Only in doing so, can we give and receive, learn and love, and heal. May today and tomorrow and 2009 be the beginning of this shared healing.
what is my call???to live to d fullest…each and every moment of life…explore the unknown..and make way for my dreams…as m here coz i dream…
The call of each must be heard and accepted
For a new year whichThe more and the more in 2009 arrives
A lot of love and peace
I dont really know,I feel is related to Literature,thats for sure.I do feel I should write,my studies are in that field,the greatest part.I love reading,in a way that isolates me sometime.Some friends,even relatives are very annoyed about topics as authors,that or that novel or poem.They say are not related to real life.In such moments I suffer.But I love to much reading.Another part of friends or professors tell me I have to write,because I have a way of saying things that seems they can see the scene in front of them.Till now I feel lazy.Is not my feature,just I dont know from where to start.But I will try,is my duty.I have read your book “The Zahir”,in which your alter ego was in a same situation.Hope I pass that moment as well.
I cannot hear the video on the computer found near the refuge of pélerins, but I can read ¡¡
I shall say as savita the paper to MAKE WHAT DICTATES ITS HEART: each has to make act thus according to the heart and its convictions and his(her) calls
The more and the more in 2009
My calling, right now, is still the same as it was last year: To Find Myself.
This is still a work in progress.
As the name following title “The winners are alone,” associate it with the good fight, as is the act of a Warrior of Light, because no one understands our steps, always win in any circumstance, we have something that always pushes us to continue and continue our journey, though, the path isn’t correct, we turn a while to find the true path, we know the happiness, good fighter, we learn from our defeats, we face our fears and demons, we learn to live with our loneliness.
With love,
Maria Isabel
my call… hmmm it’s a very hard question! I really don’t know! someone can be a doctor so he saves lives and help people, that is his call some one is a fireman or a policeman help to protect and serve! If you think about it the deeper you get confused! I think you figure it out on the way … in a moment that you never expected! people die and never find his/her true calling!
that’s sad!
Alex
u’re such an inspiration for me…
thank you so much…
merry christmas and keep writting those incredible books
thank you…
-an 18 years old FAN from MEXICO
My call? I am a teacher teaching something I am very good at, and that really gives me the joy of everyday life. It’s what I dreamed of becoming, strove for and what happened. I guess when you want something bad enough, the whole world conspires to help you get it :) As for the rest, I am a disciple in life, but aren’t we all? :)
I need to add:
and my call is LOVE…
Marion
…. to make the world a better place.
To embrace the gift of life which has been given to me.
To be thankful for the goodness I receive so often but to also be thankful for the what at the moment may seem to be a challenge or problem.
My call is …to help earth and mankind…
Froehliche Weihnachten von Marion aus Deutschland.
Ever since I was a young child, I have always felt a surge of energy passing through me. For many years, it scared me. I felt alone in it because, although I was a part of it, I knew that it did not belong to me and as I struggled with whether or not I should try to control it, understand it or ignore it, I saw no one else going through this struggle.
I found that when I sang, the energy was focused. It was as if the only way I could release it was to give it a voice and so I did. I feel connected to the world around me while I sing, but not only that. I feel more connected to myself. Its as if the deepest subconscious parts of me finally bubble at the surface and are set free. For that reason, amongst others, I believe that singing is my calling.
What is my call? Yoga, painting , poetry, being outside in nature or beside water.In other ways my call is to mind my grandchild .I collect stamps for the albatross. I like to imagine an albatross high up on the thermals above the storms.
I don’t know I wanted to donate blood before xmas , give somebody something I could give myself ..christmas spirit.I guess there are many ways to transfer a call, maybe I can smile more send some uplift, failing that sing and be myself.
Thank you for this question.
My whole life has been a journey towards discovering Who I am and what my true calling is. In the process of examining the things I love, I have realized that one of my passions is “connection,” whether it is with my Higher Self through meditation or helping others do the same through the writing on my website or in one-on-one conversations with friends.
I think we are all connected so if one article I write inspires one person to choose one loving thought instead of a fearful one, I’ve lived my calling in that moment.
That is -
My HEART says: Yes!
What my heart is telling me to do is to stop striving for something “out there” or “up ahead” (forever just out of reach…just around the next bend) and start appreciating and working with the resources and raw materials I have right HERE, right NOW, at my fingertips.
I have been thinking about taking some training courses over the next year; this is something that I really cannot afford (the universe’s way of telling me I don’t really “need” it?). Secondly, I have a couple of major degrees already; I probably need “more training” like I need a hole in my head. I catch myself: This is just another one of my little tricks – telling myself that I’m “not yet prepared,” that I’m somehow “lacking” in the skills I need to set out on my career path. Just another little slight-of-hand trick I use to keep myself from focusing on what I CAN DO in the moment, now – just another way to remove myself, and my dreams, from the here and now (a place where action can be taken) to the never-never land of some ever-distant tomorrow (where all my hopes and aspirations have to remain forever on hold, just out of reach).
So, what my heart is telling me to do is to stop this nonsense and root myself right where I am – use the resources and materials, the talents and skills that I DO HAVE already, to create something HERE and NOW: a yoga studio, a Tarot shop, some combination of the two, a place also where I can offer workshops in transformational writing (creative writing for self-development) and collage. A strange mish-mash of all my interests, but these areas are where my passions burn the brightest. And I can so visualize the place in my mind – the sort of space where all of these activities could be brought together to foster an environment of creativity, personal expression and growth.
And yet, everything in my logical mind screams: “NO! No, no, no!!! Don’t try it. (It won’t work. This is the wrong sort of market for it.) Don’t even think of it. (It’s a crazy idea. Too risky. You’ll never make a living at it.)” And so on….
Right now, I also have in residence at my home, twelve dogs – my other burning passion: rescuing and rehabilitating stray, injured and abused dogs. I have a handful that are mine, that are here to stay. The others come and go. I take them in, usually pick them up somewhere beside the road – sometimes people bring them to me – nurse them back to health, tend their wounds, both physical and psychological, then adopt them out to new forever-homes. This is the reality of my life in the here and now, what I do on a daily basis. When I am at maximum capacity, as I am now (though I have had as many as 21 at one time), it is very nearly a full-time job, just feeding them, giving them medications and generally nursing them back to health. In this moment, I have three small puppies someone brought to me: one has a broken nose (from abuse), another is so malnourished it’s tendons in it’s legs are underdeveloped and it’s knees won’t stay in place (it can’t walk), and the third, aside from being so skinny that every bone in it’s tiny body shows, it has absolutely no hair (from malnutrition and mange). Again, this is an undertaking purely of the heart. My logical mind says, “What are you doing?! You went to college and got two degrees – to do this?! Be sensible! Drop all this nonsense. Keep one dog if you must, move back to the city and get a nice apartment – nice and spotless and quiet, with no dog hair, no hungry faces staring up at you, no barking for breakfast at 6:00am, no vet bills, no hassle….” And yet, when I look around at those faces, when I look at each dog and recount in my mind the stories of abuse and neglect and calculate how amazingly far each one has come – from the bring of death to the start of a whole new life – I can’t imagine leaving them. And not just them…. I can’t imagine just saying, “Okay, I’m not going to do this anymore. The next dog I see, starving, or injured, or about to be hit by a car, I’m just going to look the other way and pretend not to see…I’m just going to turn my head and keep driving.” It seems so unnatural, so impossible NOT to do what I am doing now – not to continue with this. It may not be the most glamorous job in the world, and there is no pay (in fact, I spend as much per month to feed and take care of dogs as I do to feed and take care of my daughter and myself), BUT it is what my heart tells me to do. I may not do this forever, for the rest of my life, but right now, in this period, my heart tells me that this is right. So, I continue.
So, I suppose, to sum it up, what my heart is telling me is simply to say put, to open myself up to the challenges and opportunities the universe is placing before my in the here and now. Stop “waiting” always for some distant situation, some fabled tomorrow, and live today like this is it – like the what I have to work with now is all that I need to create my own private paradise right here on earth.
My hear says: Yes!
Sincerely,
Savita
The winner stands alone having triumphed over all competition.
We con into the world and we leave alone.
From separation into separation, like the winner, alone, yet it seems the effort in life is to make a difference among our people and not at the expense of our people, together and in cooperation with other people.
I need the benefit of my mentor’s experience on my pilgimage, to understand how to proceed but, even more important, that I can make my way along this path.
I need the benefit of my people who share this pilgimage with me for much the same reason, because they understand the universality from whence we come and the process through which we go to that other universality of personal transcendence.
Yes, I take these steps alone, I have to take action and make choices myself and, when I turn the next corner or pass through the next station, I may be alone but the journey is ever toward a communion through surrender to this process with my people.
My call is writing. I have been writing for years and never published. In 2008 I realized that I had to send out my novel to a publisher in New York and even though I am a perfectionist I realized that nothing is ever perfect. That knowledge was given to me by the publisher and they encouraged me to send the first of 11 books I wrote as it stood. They have editors to fix up a book they told me. So I did and at the same time I have been following Paulo’s talks, like the one in France and the one at the Frnakfuert Book Fair, where my publisher was too, and publish on the Net for free. So last night I began by introducing an abstract of the book One More Day on a site where I am a guest blogger at http://cafecrem.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/one-more-day-a-novel/ and when I did this the feelings that Paulo must feel I felt. Love and compassion are behind any gifts we give to the world. I also believe in what Paulo said,”Writers want to be read at the end of the day.” So I honor Paulo and my friend John Dierckx from New Zealand for helping me to see that publishing for free on the Net would make me a happier person, and what a better Christmas gift to give myself and end the year on a positive note: living my personal legend. ps. You can see the journals I have written all my books in here: moleskinerie: The Notebooks of Michael Pokocky at http://www.moleskinerie.com/2008/04/the-notebooks-o.html
I hope this post inspires others to believe and try and if something doesn’t work to Begin Again. This is the lessons I have learned from Paulo Coelho and with the encouragement of friends I have begun my journey. Thank you Paulo and fellow readers.
who realy knows that question? when do we listen to our soul. i have gifts in an aestheic world filled with love to humans and mother earth. Then I am true to my self and my passion for my soul. My kind love will be true when I listen to the soul of the angels, whom is showing the way, in terms of warm light in the candel of the sun light and true love…I want to save africa because they have great love in their harts, but they have forgotten to look at mother earth witch have great gifts for their livings, in the mean time I will speak in terms of words in language of italian and ababic…I am learning..kingdom og heaven is in my sights. peace and love. mahatma!
Olá Paulo, bom dia!
Muito interessante essa sua pergunta de hoje, ainda mais porque aparentemente sou o primeiro a colocar um comentário aqui e ainda mais porque acordei tem 7 minutos, depois de ter tido um sonho com voce. Não é o primeiro sonho, já tive alguns outros muito interessantes, o que eu já comentei também com a Cris do orkut. Já sonhei, por exemplo, com capa de livro novo seu. Bom, no meu sonho de hoje, eu via algumas cenas do Barack Obama e algumas passagens da bíblia, aonde diziam que ele era o Anti-Cristo e que eu deveria falar isso para voce. Eram cenas confusas, via textos antigos, como se fossem pergaminhos de antigas bibliotecas, aonde essa revelação estava escrita. Ao acordar, e entrar no seu blog, vi o seu vídeo e acho que é isso que eu sinto que devo escrever agora.
Abraços grandes e tudo de bom!
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