Paulo Coelho
William Blake says in one of his texts: “all that today is a reality was once only part of an impossible dream,” and that is why today we have the airplane, space exploration, the computer with which I am writing this column, and so on. In Lewis Carroll’s famous masterpiece “Alice through the Looking Glass,” there is a dialogue between the main character and the Queen, who has just told something quite extraordinary.
- I can’t believe it – says Alice.
- Can’t believe it? – the Queen repeats with a sad look on her face. – Try again: take a deep breath, close your eyes, and believe.
Alice laughs:
- It’s no good trying. Only fools believe that impossible things can happen.
- I think what you need is a little training – answers the Queen. – When I was your age I would practice at least half an hour a day, right after breakfast, I tried very hard to imagine five or six unbelievable things that could cross my path, and today I see that most of the things I imagined have turned real, I even became a Queen because of that.
Life constantly asks us: “believe!” Believing that a miracle can happen at any moment is necessary not only for our happiness but also for our protection, or to justify our existence. In today’s world, many people think it is impossible to put an end to misery, to build a fair society, and to alleviate the religious tension that seems to grow worse every day.
Most people avoid the struggle for a whole variety of reasons: conformism, maturity, the sense of the ridiculous, the feeling of impotence. We see injustice being done to our neighbor and remain silent. “I’m not getting involved in fights for nothing” is the explanation.
This is a cowardly attitude. Whoever travels down a spiritual path carries an honor code to be fulfilled; the voice that is raised against what is wrong is always heard by God.
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Dear TL
Good wishes for you on your wonderful journey.
With love
Pandora
Dear Catherine,
thank you for your comment :-)
I don´t feel hurted personally, many people are afraid and they project their feeling onto others.
I know it is not my fault, and I don´t take their blame, it is their own responsability to deal with their nonworking patterns that come from fear.
As it is my responsabililty to deal with my patterns coming from fear.
And the only way is to follow MY heart, and stand up for MY beliefs, what else can we do?
I feel sad for all the people that put other people down because of envy and fear.
But I´m leaving my work in a soon future, I have realized it is not my dream and my destiny.
I have a clue what my dream are, but I can not see the whole picture yet.
I have to walk thrue the right doors first, first finding the right keys ;-)
I trust in God and my guides :-)
I have prayed for help so they can show me the way.
And I follow the signs even in the dark woods, then my power animal (a puma) is going beside me and I feel safe ;-)
Love, courage and light
Jessica
Hi all,
I bit late but in ‘Akice in Wonderland’ the queen of hearts is always saying “off with their heads”, it is follow your heart again. Paulo has lead us back to our hearts and to keep believing and I know that I have to keep believing with the current situation and love that I have found in my life. He is called Jason please send us positive thoughts.
Thank you.
Love
TL
What is imposible is only in our mind, those things are imposible only because we don’t dare to take on a journey and achieve our dreams. If we look back, years ago someone thought it was impossible to fly or many thought it was impossible for women to one day be able to vote, but indeed i do believe that the word imposible in its finest meaning determines things that are unreacheble in nature. Like it is imposible to change our gender in its totality even if we had surgery we would be still males by nature, like it is imposible to get oranges from a pear tree. But the word imposible only limits what we can do by setting a line between what is possible and what is not, therefore within the context of ones life things are determined to be imposible when we as human beings don’t strive to achive what we really want. For example, if i don’t make an effort to learn a language, it will be imposible to understand the message that is being transfered in that specific language.
Jed
Dear Catherine M ,
Appreciated from the bottom of my heart…
Dear Marie-Christine,
Nice question and it is really very nice that you made such questions. OK, as you said the reward will be given to the person with right answer.
I can buy my new book in printed, paperback format “A very first poems:Hearbreak” for that reward. Please send me email at following address-
santoshkalwar@gmail.com
Thank you
God bless you all !
Mestre,
Muito linda esta msg, e muito lindo os comentarios.
Agradeço muito pela luz.
Deus o abençoe, Paulo, e a todos aqui.
Com amor,
Cassia
Dear Paulo,
…because of sense of the ridicolous and the feeling of impotence… that is it !
Some are scared to be labelled as ridicolous, the others gave up struggle.
Alice is part of me since childhood (in ex-Yugoslavia “Alice in Wonderland” was obligatory literature in elementary school) and it was real gift as it has KEY to imagination, to belief in miracles, to new paths.
Both books of Alice, together with Peter Pan are my company from childhood regarded as best friends, I love them as much as almost 50 years ago.
Love
Luce
Life is a miracle. There is nothing impossible. Impossible is the word from our minds and miracle the Light in our Hearts.
LOVE,
Thelma
Im possible n’est pas francais.
Santosh K -
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I am proposing a quizz night whilst you are away.
See who is right , who is wrong?
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Second question
Is Santosh K moving into an appartment?
Third question
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Fourth question
Is Santosh K going sailing?
Fith question
Is Santosh K going to live in a car?
Sixth question
Is Santosh K moving out of the country he is ln?
Seventh one :
Is Santosh K moving a few boxes?
Eighth
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Ninth
Is Santosh K going on an aeroplane?
10th
Is Santosh K moving out with someone?
Others : at your discretion.
You have one week to reply.
A reward will be given to the first person who find the right answer.
Love to all,
To believe, to accept what is before and behind, to identify with the transparent as well as the hidden. Has doubt become a common defense mechanism to what one may not be able to comprehend? A blind man survives beyond his inability to see what is just before him, yet he must believe that the world is still about even though he no longer or ever did visually fathomed such. He must believe in the simplicity of the common elements without the miracle of sight. How glorious to see nothing, and believe in everything? How shameful to believe in nothing, yet see everything?
Dear Jessica,
I guess you are tired about the situation. It seems too. I read another post you wrote about the situation at your work.
Sometimes trying to react in another manner could change a thing. Just try to see how you wish the things were, and feel that new good feeling. You could make an image about. Thanking. Then go to work with that feeling. And each time, you feel you energies go down, you could call the image or the feeling. Everything’s gonna be alright.
You could try this. If it does not work, then go back to see what what’s not going on. You’ll find something.
Is that job your dream?
I send you strength.
With love.
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission” Mahatma Gandhi.
…..”Quem viaja em um caminho espiritual carrega um código de honra ser cumpridas, a voz que se levantou contra o que está errado é sempre ouvida por Deus”. ( muito bonito essa passagem do texto )
Eu acredito na Fé que tenho dentro de mim, mesmo nos momentos das lutas. Acredito na Luz,
Eu acredito em milagres.
bjs,
Mari Raphael.
Thank you Santosh. You make me smile. Thank you for your wisdom and your humour.
Love.
“Believe is to have faith on your own destiny.”
“Weather you believe or do not believe it does not matter as long as you are going to make it possible in the end”.
“Many of us do believe on our soul, destiny and dreams but very few of us believe the unbelievale.”
“No body believes in some one’s else dream, they start believing only after they see the same dream becoming true in reality”.
“Impossilbe means I M Possible, but it also means believing in making impossible possible.”
Sorry guys for the delay, For a week from now, I am moving in into some different location. Anyways, I will read your post and will give my words of wisedom. ( I may sound like the administrator of this blog, but I am not- its Paulo the great !)
God bless you all !
Alex M – thank You for this posting. I think it will give many of us here hope. Ant not only in the matter of meeting Paulo one day, but generally. Seeing the magic happening and the opportunities of our lives.
I thank You in the name of everyone who wish for such ways.
Love from Estonia,
Liina L.
Dear Alex from UK,
your post made me happy.
This last year I have had a lot of hard challenges and also miracles in some very magical ways.
Maybe “God” is testing my faith, patience and courage *LOL*
I have been forced to stand up for my beliefs in many ways.
For example as a single women at my division at work, often no one is taking my side, even though I know some of them think like me.
I think many are scared of telling their truth because they could be outside the “group”.
I´m already outside the group in one sense, I´m a women.
I don´t care any longer, I´m not going to stay there much longer.
I know my path is taking me to another place.
The most important thing is that I have to stand up for my beliefs and I have to listen to MY heart.
That is the only thing I know for sure, the rest will unfold itself on the way I believe.
Love an courage
Jessica
impossible or mmmmmmm possible????
Thank you Paulo!!
i take a deep breath and close my eyes and believe that…
Love and Graditude
Annie
To often in our lives we try to realize our dreams, only to have them diminished by other “brain people.” People do not trust in there hearts as they once did. The most important of decisions are made for appearances rather than following ones’ dreams and/or helping others. It become apparent that people are trying to do the right things for the wrong reasons and this is when the heart becomes lost in the process. What I’m trying to say is do not let others actions heed what you are meant to do. Some people are just not dreamers and what they do in life is to fulfill there social lives. I think Matthew quotes it best
Mathew 6:3
1 “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 3 But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.
When I came to Paris two years ago to meet you at your Saint Joseph’s party, I was met with miracle after miracle. It was a magical experience and taught me that whatever you believe in, whatever you want to happen in your life, will happen. You just need to believe it enough. Strange and wonderful things happened to me that week and things that I thought not possible, became possible. I now know that when we want magic to happen – it will enfold right before our eyes. Thank you for teaching me that.
“- It’s no good trying. Only fools believe that impossible things can happen.”
If somebody says, something is impossible, we are always drawn to the conclusion that they are just unable to communicate because they are so wrapped up in themselves, much like the people in The Winner Stands Alone. One who pulls the strings for their own gain of momentary power.In my business the impossible is always possible, and the true heart always shines through.
..Tomorrow starts today.We imagine different things.We have different beliefs.When our imaginations coincide-we call it Reality.Yesterdays beliefs became todays reality.If we are not content today,perhaps,it’s time to think,that..
You give me strength when I need it Paulo.
I cried when I read this post, I think I´m a fool most of the times, because I believe in the light of people.
Sometimes it looks very dark and I almost give up believing, but then you posted this post excactlly when I needed it.
That is a miracle.
It´s so hard to stand up for yourself when almost everyone around you try to put you down in some way, maybe they just are afraid of change?
I work with only men in my department, and I have 3 friens among them.
But when other guys starting telling bad jokes about girls, they are quite even though I know they aren´t that way.
Yesterday they starting talking bad things about Mary Magdalene when I started to talk abot why there where no women in the bible that is a profet.
And I told them the one without sin should throw the first stone. There was silence and then they started to talk about something else.
I´m so tired and angry of some men that try to put women down and think they are better then women, and the other men don´t say anything .
And also women let men behave this way, and just say that some men are unmature.
I´m sick of that, I have had enough!!!
We all have a responsability to treat each other with love and respect.
Men are not babies and I´m not a mother to them.
We should live side by side supporting each ohter.
We are all one, what goes around comes around sooner or later.
Love Jessica
Yes, they DO.
Impossible is a word like any other, and we are the ones that give it power over us. Now some words deserve complete power, like Love, but not …impossible.
It was somewhere on this site that I understood for the first time how dreams come true. Somewhere, dearest Paulo, you said that dreams do come true, if we are not afraid to accept that it may be in the most unexpected manner, if we are not afraid to pursue them, and … (loved this part) if we are not to be dissapointed on what we may find once we do.
With this lines I realized my expectations of how my impossible dreams come true may limit more than achieve, and I’ve started to open up to possibilities never knew existed.
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I don’t know if people wish a lot of miracles and don’t see them happen. I know until today almost everything I thought/wished (and acted upon, even the slightest), happened, or I could see clearly how it would realistically happen, if i continued on that path.
I don’t find that hard, acting the dreaded impossible is very doable. What I find hard and painful is forming a though, a wish, possible or impossible. It takes so long, months, years sometimes between the thought of a miracle, spent in some sort of paralysis of pain, guilt that it may hurt someone or that it may be wrong by whatever rules, that I feel I wasting my life just on forming a thought, a wish.
after it exists, mountains move so quickly!
but in await of one… I don’t understand why they’re so rare, I feel I fail life somehow.
http://sido66.blogspot.com/
By the way – Alice (in wonderland) – through the looking glass was written by a grandfather who, taking the day to enjoy the sunshine with grandchildren in tow, rowed down the river – London I think it was, perhaps.
He started to tell them this story of imagination. then it became the book.
you have to consider the time it was written – the war time era in Europe. the unimaginable was occuring to humanity,.. realities were changing… yet in order to come through, it would require a leap of extra-ordinary … the unimaginable (maybe?).. to see a good ending.
the story was in part to give that future to his grandchildren.. give the faith.
but its a time in history where people in power turned out to be not what they were and I am sure the world was trying to grapple with this character, this force, this mask.
It is indeed a strange story, but also beloved by many…
and one can only presume because of the strange message conveyed in its interpretation – that it took on that capacity to reach out to a wider audience.
hmm. that’s two articles this week on cowardness :o/
You’re welcome Sido. :)
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Thoreau -
Miracles happen.. Some may not yet realize they have. ” Dreams, if they were easy”, they would be called something else…*
Catherine , catherine ,
Thank you
i think every day “Make everything with love , and carpediem”
Love, humility, dream, life, sharing
“The voice that is raised against what is wrong is always heard by God.” (?)
We shall see about that!
(Sorry – I am such a cynic today. I am Alice. Maybe what I need is a little more training.)
“I should see the garden far better,” said Alice to herself, “if I could get to the top of that hill: and here’s a path that leads straight to it – at least, no, it doesn’t do that —” (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), “but I suppose it will at last.” – from “Through the Looking Glass”
Miracles are possible immediately… the Impossible requires a little more time… and effort… ♡ Paul
PS: Dear Viv, don’t talk in past tense… never loose touch with the child in you… crinkly edges or not… you “sound” like a great human being… ♡ Paul
Alexandra: for some reason, it had the same effect on me. Never liked it… it felt wrong even when I tried to read it. I had a bad feeling about it. That’s all I can remember from childhood, about it.
I never liked that story,nor Alice.The text you presented now,is really good.Maybe I was not mature enough when I read it,during childhood.I agree with you on that idea,still,I really cant stand Alice and her story.Cant explain why.
Like in that song “I believe I can fly” (by R&B singer R. Kelly):
(…)I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away (…)
There are miracles in life I must achieve
But first I know IT STARTS INSIDE OF ME(…)
As someone who resembled Alice physically all her life(and even now, a little creased around the edges, am an adult Alice) I identify with Alice a lot.
I think the original word was impossible, though.
I feel like this is adressed to me, partly – yesterday I started to ponder yet again how believing in something can change the whole course of the journey.
“I can’t/don’t believe it… I’m starting to believe… I believe!”
Three different stages, stages of change. In most aspects in life, I am actually in the final stage.
But in some aspects/situations, which are (in a way) more important, I am still somewhere between the ‘I’m starting to believe’ and ‘I believe!’
True, we have to believe:
1. In ourselves
2. In the miracles of life / the help we get during our journey.
Love,
Liina L.
Dear Sido66,
I went and read a little of your blog yeasterday. I admire you. You make me realise how my life could me more resourceful. I was totally “aghast” to discover all the things you did. And sometimes dangerous! Even you seem to consider, nothing’s really is… :)
Thank you.
Love.
Thank God – I believe this with my heart and soul, that voice does not go unheard.
The Eyes of Truth are watching too.
“Whoever travels down a spiritual path carries an honor code to be fulfilled; the voice that is raised against what is wrong is always heard by God.”
Really, really and extremely true :
I believe that I shall not have lived what I lived last months and the “mystic” events of my St’s road jacques if I had not left with in the heart the Others. My desire to make for the others and to make the road of st jacques to take in a message for somebody else than me, and to go to any humility there and filled with love for the Other one.
I believe that we cannot be in front of ” I believe that we can be in front of ” the door ” only if our desire to make is pure, that if our heart is filled with love for the other one, in the oversight of ourself
It was allowed me to live certaines things because I appeared in front of God “girl”, humble, and for the others
honor code , humility , love and Faith
Believe in miracles,…don’t complain about what’s going wrong and live for the highest good. So when we all do that then we are the miracle.
Imagine all the people ……
Thank you Paulo :)
Love
Hildegarde
xxx
I believe that we can change this world just through the power of our imagination and the reason for that is the fact that this world is not fixed. Things change continuously and it depends on us how will they change. From the beautiful mind beautiful world will come. So the work begins with our own mind or soul. I think we should look inside and check what is our internal world like and take responsibility for that. It is unreasonable to expect others to behave in certain ways when our own mind is not pure. I am confident that when we do that we can expect our external world to change in a drastic way – the positive one. Of course if this is what we wish for.
Oh thank you Paulo: I was searching for that quote since a long time! Great.
What you wrote there is right. I guess it is difficult first to consider anything could be believed. But then we’ve got the point, it’s easy to apply in everyday’s life. Little by little.
Nothing is impossible, even self-importance, as that Queen shows off, needed belief to take form…
Thank you and happy day.