Paulo Coelho
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Even so, now and again we hear the following comment:
“I always believe in dreams, I often try to combat injustice, but I always end up disappointed.”
A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing as he does the power of his sword and the force of his love. He vehemently rejects those who are unable to take decisions and are always trying to pass on to others the responsibility for all the bad that happens in the world.
If he does not fight against what is wrong – even if it seems beyond his strength – he will never find the right way.
My Iranian publisher, Arash Hejasi, once sent me a text that said:
“Today a heavy rainstorm caught me by surprise when I was walking down the street … thank God I had my umbrella and raincoat. Except that they were both in my car, parked quite a distance away. While I was running to get them I thought what a strange sign I was receiving from God – we always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life prepares for us, but most times these resources are locked away in the bottom of our heart and this makes us waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them, so that when we finally find them, we have already been defeated by adversity.”
So, let us always be prepared; otherwise we will miss our chance, or lose the battle.
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oops sorry Satora too.
Three grandmas hey? Sounds good to me.
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Thelma and Paul
I am 62 years old , a grand ma of 3 beautiful grandchildren,
they call me “Grandma” and I like it.
Is that all right?
The thought of going on a “Broomstick” really appeals to me. Wow! Want to come for a ride?…. I glide through that internet at great speed, even though I still cant do the pasting bit and the photo thingamagic.
I haven’t given up yet.
Love to all
Paul, I forgive you for that “flippant’ remark. Ah! Ah! Ah!
xxxxx
Grandma Marie-Christine
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Dear Satora, we are expecting Marie-Christine’s response. Anyway if she …. is also a Grandma, like you and me, then we can create a … Super Grannies Club, who can even travel in the .. Internet! and with a … broomstick!!
My apologies, if I was too … quick to respond!
LOVE,
Thelma.
p.s. Dear/est Paul from Austria, thank you and I .. love you. ;] T.
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Dear Thelma and Paul from Austria
Sometimes we read things between the lines that really do not exist.
I understood that she (Marie-Christine) was talking about herself.
We all can turn into trolls with just a wink of the magic wand ….
With kindness,
Satora – Yes, I am a Grandma!!!!!
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Mestre,
Estou completamente de acordo, que, se acreditarmos, aquilo que até então é considerado impossivel pode se tornar possivel, e para isso precisamos estar alertas pra não perdermos as oportunidades que o Universo nos traz.
Tudo é possivel a medida que acreditamos, mantemos nossa fé, e estamos abertos aos presentes que o Universo nos traz.
Se pensarmos sempre assim, poderemos fazer que cada dia de nossa vida seja um milagre.
Confesso que ter a oportunidade de conhecê-lo pessoalmente dia 19 é um fato que me ajudou a reerguer minha fé, pois é um sonho que vou realisar, ja que você é uma das pessoas que mais admiro na vida.
Eu não tenho palavras pra te agradecer Paulo, de toda luz que seus ensinamentos trazem à minha vida depois de mtos e mtos anos. Que Deus o abençoe hj e sempre.
Com amor, respeito e mta admiração.
Cassia
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You are a true Warrior of the Light… Dearest Thelma… Granny Bashing is neither a fair or intelligent sport…:-)) I would go so far as to challenge M-C to “come out” and show his/her true colours…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amwVyRH2B8A&feature=related
I have liked this song for a while. The video raises the question, Would we make a change if social injustice was right in front of us in our everyday lives?
Brett Dennen says; “Love will Come Set Me Free.”
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Dear Liina and Annie,
Thank you for your comments , it means a lot to me, feeling that I´m not alone on this Earth thinking this way :-)
And also thanks to everyone else on this blog that writes very wise and loving thoughts.
As you said Liina, we should appriciate even the small things in life and say thank you each day for what we have, like healthy children, running water, food on the table, not every human has that on this Earth.
I wish we all had the same chance from the beginning but we don´t.
We have to do the best of what we have in the moment and continue fighting for our cause.
Every change starts with ourself, noone else can do it for you.
If we think we are weak we are.
If we think we are strong, we can move mountains with our thoughts.
That is why we should choose our thoughts carefully.
I saw on Operah Winfreys show a time ago, it was about a young girl that had ben raped and forced to be a childsoldier and she was forced to shoot people.
She was rescued by a organization that gave her a education and a home and also therapy for her traumas.
That was a miracle for this child.
She had a dream to be a lawyer and save other children from theese things, to create some justice in this world.
We can also be a Earthangel in someone elses life when we reach out our hand, as someone else can be a Earthangel to us reaching out their hand.
Give and recieve the flow of energy.
We can all do something to make another humans day a little better.
We can´t continue just pass by and think that someone else is going to take charge of things, we can all do the best we can.
Love Jessica
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In addition to being prepared, I would like to be aware. If I am prepared with my umbrella in the car, yet unaware of the clouds that are gathering, it is of little use.
Or perhaps more importantly, when I notice that I must rush back to my car to fetch the umbrella, shouldn’t I pause and try to be aware…is my angel telling me that I must go back? Is there something or someone that I must notice at that moment or soon after? Am I learning a lesson much bigger than what the situation appears?
If we do not pay attention our preparedness does very little; but even more so if we do not pay attention to the signs, the real messages, what is the point…they are what we are preparing for in the end. They are what make the impossible possible.
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Dear Paulo,
Thanks so much for your inspiration. You are THE BEST!!!
Much love,
Diane
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Dear Marie-Christine, I have just read your comment above and I wonder to which …. ‘grandma’ you are referring to ???? Are you prejudiced against any human being regarding religion, colour, sex or age??? Then you are not … fit for Paulo Coelho’s Blog you will have to seek another field for showing off your … cleverness!
LOVE,
Thelma
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oops I forgot love to you Aditya and Annie, thanks for including grandma in your circle. Yeeh Ah xxx
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Well said Aditya.
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faith is the greatest challenge to human mind, mind knows no faith.
it is and has always been a matter of faith. the basic duality of exiatnce is between faith and fear.
savita u say “Love? That, surely. Patience, endurance? Most likely just as essential. Compassion? Definitely! So this is it - my repertoire of weapons with which I have to do battle, when I am otherwise in a position of inevitable surrender and defeat. Now let me go quickly and see if I can find them…”
faith is a matter of awareness, a amtter fo remembrance, the moment u remember u have found it. when winds of ‘reality’ start thrashing us about, it’s out awareness, our remembrance, our faith which is being tested. so hold chaps, be wols, but don’t make it a serious affair, a wol is not a serious person, s/he is child like, giggling now, and furious next moment, giggling again, outwardly, while ainwardly remaining a pure consciousness !!!1
love
aditya
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Thank you all, especially Annie for your warm, kind, sensitive heart.
The story of the Iranian publisher has remindedto me … myself! Once I went to my parents. My father [as always being protective] looked at me and my .. dress and told me :’You will catch a cold! You should take your coat’. But I have it, I answered back, it is in my car!! He looked at me [with the expression we all know] and said ‘ironically’, ‘Yes your .. car will NOT catch a cold’!
‘To be prepared’: it is the motto of the .. Scouts.
The Parable in the Gospel about the seven ’silly’ Virgins…!!
I think, the today’s lesson is to be always open and ALERT and able to use the up-to-date acquired knowledge and all our ..equipment, for the good fight
LOVE,
Thelma.
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Dear Liina L, and Jessica,
.That shift of thinking you talk about is so important..and i have to work on that…yes, we are “creators” and still many havent realized that..and even if we/they have , there is much work to do on acting like that..
Thank you for every word that you wrote..every one of them touches my heart…
Love and Graditude
Annie (from Greece)
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so many times in life impossible could be the possible!!!!! it depends how much we really want- dream- fight- etc…
but at the same time i see people with terminally illnesses who cant fight the impossible,,, just cant,,, so even with the best dreams ever they still have to know the impossible,,,
there r many other things that fisically r impossible- even if we do our best!!!!!we cant go under the water like fish,,, without oxigen-we cant fly like a bird- and more and more—
but on the other side,,, spiritually we can reach almost all the impossible!!!
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Lovely post, Jessica! I can feel the love behind the words. :) Thanks for sharing the thoughts.
And I agree - we, ourselves, create our own worlds. No matter if we admit it or not, but this is the truth. (Unless we are just full of apathy - then we let others create our world). Our thoughts matter a lot. Our whole life can change when we shift our thinking to a better way.
I have done this. Years back I used to concentrate on the negative, but something happened and I slowly started evolving into the person I am today, and still evolving… as humans evolve to the day they die. Their whole lifetime. Anyway, since then I have shifted to levels I didn’t even knew excisted.
And for that I am thankful for all the miracles that have happened to me so far, and all the signs I have recieved since I opened my eyes to LIFE. For me, it happened when I started to appreaciate the small, yet beautiful moments that life has to offer us. And for that, You have to open Your heart. :)
And as Arash Hejasi said in the ‘Believing the impossible’ story: “…we always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life prepares for us, but most times these resources are locked away in the bottom of our heart and this makes us waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them…”
So I wish that we all could, each day, open our hearts a little…
Love,
Liina L.
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Don´t ever give up, just keep on trying, do the best you can :-)
Then you know at least you did your best and you can be proud of yourself, even if the outcome sometimes isn´t the one you expected.
It is the intention that counts …. God knows ;-)
At last yor effort pais off in one way or another.
God work in mysterious ways, we have to be open for whatever miracle comes our way :-)
I believe in miracles even though I sometimes can feel like I live in a Saga … maybe I do *LOL*?
We create the world we live in, that is why we need to change our thoughts to more loving thoughts all of us,
if that is the world we want to live in.
I want more love and more sharing in the world anyway, so I will do what I can.
We have to be the change we want, and I hope more and more people will wake up, then we can create even larger miracles :-)
What we think, and then what we do in action, that becomes our reality.
It start with our thoughts that is why we should choose our thoughts carefully.
Love and light Jessica
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Annie - where are You from, if I may ask?
And lovely posting. I think many can resemble.
I am glad You have the strenght to continue the journey towards Your dream, even if people closest to You do not see it, understand it, accept it, and are trying to bring You down. I hope You will continue to strive from the inner power and the positive emotions You get from PCB. :) In the end, all that matters is that You stay true to Your own heart, and then nothing can bring You down.
Much love from Estonia,
Liina L.
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Believing in the impossible. From this article I feel my dreams and my responsibility. Yes, resources are ‘locked away in the bottom of my heart’, and I wonder which items do I have and I can not see because there is so much stuff on top of the resources I need. The last line from “By the River Piedra I sat down and Wept” came to me only now, “Dreams mean work.” The comments for this post are great!
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So true….. to be prepared… i dont wanna ever miss my chance again…i ll try harder..i deserve this to my little Annie…
Thank you all…
Dear Paul From Austria, from the day you walked the pilgrimage i always carry you in my heart, and you give me strength..i m always grateful, and love you with all my heart
I love everyone here , you make me wanna become what i am..and when i strive for this, making what my parents think i can;t do and it is impossible (yesterday i was told that time has shown that i cant achive my dreams..) but no! i believe in the impossible and i close my eyes and i imagine everything and i say i can…because all of you..
Thank you Paulo for being always there with your blog, thank you my dearest Thelma (you are like a mother blanket for me) and dear Paul from Austria ( you are so generous and loving like a parent and so remarkable i am so lucky you exist all of you in this world) and thank you to all of you friends, sido, Jessica, Karen, christine, marie christine, santosh, Savita Vega, Hildegarde, Alexandra, Pandora, Catherine M, and everyone else here…
Love and Graditude
Annie
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‘Invasion’.Habitual Beings get preocupied with many distractions of everyday’s life.Otherwise we are ‘infected’ with Naturalism.Just to watch the correlation of Spiritualism towards Naturalism.Neither is good or bad,its about proportions and the Light from.. above,which will suit the individual.
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Society has a plethera of standards that are meant to prepare us for “the real world,” but at no point are our hearts prepared for the battles waged ever so fiercely day to day. the preparation of the heart cannot come from the masses. The heart’s journey can be, at times, a very lonely one. It is the divine that plants the most delicate seed in our hearts to give us the sustenance we need, it is always there. In true battle, when what is most important is at hand and very difficult, a simple act of bravery will water such a seed, bringing forth life. So, how is one to be brave, to be prepared, in a world that may look to contradict such? For growth is up to each individual, and sometimes one may find find it intimidating to be accountable to self.
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“The Warrior of light…knows the power of his sword and force of his love….- we always have the necessary resources…but most times these…are locked away in the bottom of our heart…so that when we finally find them, we have already been defeated….”
In the movie, “Out of Africa,” there is a scene where Karen Blixen goes out riding on the African plains alone. At a certain point, she dismounts from her horse and then encounters a lioness who decides that she looks like a tasty lunch. Karen has a gun in the scabbard attached to her saddle, but the horse is far out of reach and if she makes a move toward it, the lioness is sure to pounce. Just at this moment, up rides Denis Hutton, her lover, who watches the whole scenario, quite amused. He tells karen who is standing with her back to a tree, facing the lioness: “I wouldn’t run….. If you do, she’ll think you’re something good to eat.” She stands still, as she is advised, but the lioness just keeps coming closer, and closer, and closer still, and Denys, who has his rifle in his hand, aimed and ready, doesn’t shoot! He just stands there and watches, to see what the lioness will do. Finally, when the lioness gets a good smell of Karen, she decides that she isn’t interested and moves on off. When the whole thing is over and all danger passed, Denys asks Karen, “Doesn’t that outfit (her riding outfit) come with a rifle?” “It’s on my saddle,” she says, obviously rather ashamed. “Better keep it with you,” he says.
So, sometimes, maybe most times, we are like Karen, or like Paulo’s Iranian publisher, we do indeed have the resources or weapons we need to fight the battle at hand, but they have been locked away somewhere and forgotten, far out of reach when we need them. And, like Karen, we have to learn to keep better track of them.
I am trying to grasp what that means to me in solid terms, in the setting of the life circumstances I face at the moment. What are my “resources” exactly - what weapons have I in more store with which to fight this battle? I am Karen, with my back against that tree and the lioness breathing at my feet. I am, it would appear, in a situation where there are but two choices: to run, or to stand and surrender to defeat. There is a proverb in the Portuguese which goes: “Se corre o bicho pega, se fica o bicho come.” If I run, the beast is sure to catch me; if I stand still, the beast is sure to eat me! Where is my rifle when I need it?! Is it in the scabbard on my saddle, far out of reach? And what exactly is the nature of that weapon that would save me and offer victory, where otherwise there is only defeat?
Love? That, surely. Patience, endurance? Most likely just as essential. Compassion? Definitely! So this is it - my repertoire of weapons with which I have to do battle, when I am otherwise in a position of inevitable surrender and defeat. Now let me go quickly and see if I can find them…before it is too late!
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“If he does not fight against what is wrong – even if it seems beyond his strength – he will never find the right way.”
Yes… I have to feel about this sentence and the first what is appearing is…do we have to fight against all what is wrong even when there are no ears?
How much is it worth fighting for?
I mean when I hear about the umbrella and the raincoat…when they are (in) your heart then is there still an adversity that defeats you?
I always shall fight for the love in my heart…yes, we all have our own way…and my truth doesn’t have to be yours.
Love
Hildegarde
xxx
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Hope. So difficult.
But a must.
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That one was good.Many times the solution to our problems are under our nose,but we look far to search them.Maybe worrying too much make us lost the abilitty to decide fast and in the best way.
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Dear Paulo,
I have spent the last 16 years believing in the impossible.
Not just believing, but ACTING on the belief of invisible intuitions and KNOWINGS.
Believing is the easy part I think. It is when one decides to ACT on a belief that the real tests begin. Rather like putting a boat in the ocean, and leaving dry land, once the coast is far behind and the journey TRULY begun, we cannot predict the storms and calms we will face, or even if we will reach our destination.
Our compass is an impossible dream, because we are going where noone has gone before.
We navigate by the inner star in our heart.
This is the timeless quest of all human beings.
Before, the impossible dream was shared by many, but now we have come to a place in human consciousness where we have to journey to find the inner star which has been given exclusively and only to us - our personal legend- alone, even though it is a part of the Great Divine Star we call God.
This makes the journey a journey of one in the boat very often - no crew members.
But we are the individual pieces in God’s great puzzle. If we are willing to dream our own individual piece of the great puzzle, we do the work of angels here on earth.
Dream on dear friends - you will arrive.
Blessings.
Karen.
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