In many if my books I talk about symbols as I also do in this blog. But we are one step away of becoming paranoiac about the signs interpreting absolutely everything we stumble upon. So readers often ask me what is a sign and what isn’t. And I say that I cannot answer since my signs are not other peoples signs. It is an individual alphabet to talk to God.
So, instead of explaining the signs, I normally try to share my signs. So why don’t you try to share your signs?
I’m not saying it is an universal language that your signs can be imposed to others but you can give us examples of signs when these changed your life.
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Dominant.We do live in a symbolical world,where signs point the directions,without mentioning the speed,the time,the circumstances,the interferences or bonuses on the way.Everybody opens for himself the right route.The rules are behind the surface.For me-Synchronisity means a lot.When one name starts to dominate everything,and the world becomes “the narrow pond”.
The words are the stars in my heart. When the time I could not find myself, I searched for the book which you wrote and I found out the answers that I need.Thanks for the beautiful words.
Ciao to all you
Well…I’ll prove to write in english all that I think in this moment…about signs…
And I’ll prove to answer
All can be a sign and all we interpret it according to our consciousness, to our story of real life, for this reason my sign can’t be your sign, there are signs to everyone…
(During a walk through a little wood, one day I was very alone in a unknown place…I won a vacation in a healt-center and I chose a city far from mine, there I read for first time the story about Veronika, that day I needed to be loved…I missed my father, I walked out from wood after I had caressed some trees and when I saw the street my eyes filled with tears: there was an iscription on guardrail –Rossella- that is my name -I love you-
That was my sign in my way even if I knew who had wrote it…not for me!)
A sign becomes reality when my consciousness convert it to “magic-act”…my conscience as altered…this kind of sign I use it to forget…to stop in me a process of suffering or just because to opposite I don’t want to forget…
(in first case when I erased a telephone number from my mobile phone, in second case I maked this tattoo, you can see it on http://www.myspace.com/rosselladigregorio :))
Dear Paulo I don’t want to forget my life and my courage! For me that circle is my life and the sword remember me all proves I overcame…when my first love…beat me…4 years of my life in this way! a terrible crash…I outside from my body…I was in a tunnel…then I returned again…my head and my leg…operation…1 mounth in the hospital, 6 mounths on a wheelchair and my third eye opened…forever! after…when my father died for a virus of unknown origine…before this my family was happy! When my second love ,after another 4 years leave me because he had understood to not love me and I only…want to die! Then…the trips…the theatre…Jesus…the music…my songs…my victories! when the doctors made a mistake a simple operation for appendicitis and again another operation…I was without strengths…from that bed of the hospital I saw in television the last scenes of a great man I loved very much, the Pope…Karol was near to death…how much I want to go to Rome in that moment…on my feet too but my body…was tired!
In all of those moments I didn’t never stop me to help other persons, friends, people of my family or perfects unknowns! My better strength is been to spread love abuntantly so in this way I fought my solitude!
I chose the symbol of the warrior of the light, what was better of this?
This is my first tattoo…never I could think to make one…instead…when Michele (a coincidence his name) begins to engrave this symbol on my skin I feel as a warm blade of a sword…he forged these lines with iron and fire just like God had forged my spirit!
-I ‘d like to choose a right date to do it-…I thinked. 2009/03/26 = 11.11 is perfect, for me rappresent the destruction and the reconstruction but in that day I had only an appointment…well…the tattoo was so little that he requested me -Do you want to make it now?- and I -Ok!-
This symbol bind me to my friends too…Barbara, Jacky, Manuela, to all warriors of light and surely to you!
signs are an answer to the questions you ask, yourself or someone else – even if you dare not ask them. and you can’t miss them. they return in different forms if they have to, louder and louder, untill you can’t ignore them anymore.
Ciao to all you
Well…I’ll prove to write in english all that I think in this moment…about signs…
And I’ll prove to answer
All can be a sign and all we interpret it according to our consciousness, to our story of real life, for this reason my sign can’t be your sign, there are signs to everyone…
(During a walk through a little wood, one day I was very alone in a unknown place…I won a vacation in a healt-center and I chose a city far from mine, there I read for first time the story about Veronika, that day I needed to be loved…I missed my father, I walked out from wood after I had caressed some trees and when I saw the street my eyes filled with tears: there was an iscription on guardrail –Rossella- that is my name -I love you-
That was my sign in my way even if I knew who had wrote it…not for me!)
A sign becomes reality when my consciousness convert it to “magic-act”…my conscience as altered…this kind of sign I use it to forget…to stop in me a process of suffering or just because to opposite I don’t want to forget…
(in first case when I erased a telephone number from my mobile phone, in second case I maked this tattoo http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=immagine009h.jpg
:))
Dear Paulo I don’t want to forget my life and my courage! For me that circle is my life and the sword remember me all proves I overcame…when my first love…beat me…4 years of my life in this way! a terrible crash…I outside from my body…I was in a tunnel…then I returned again…my head and my leg…operation…1 mounth in the hospital, 6 mounths on a wheelchair and my third eye opened…forever! after…when my father died for a virus of unknown origine…before this my family was happy! When my second love ,after another 4 years leave me because he had understood to not love me and I only…want to die! Then…the trips…the theatre…Jesus…the music…my songs…my victories! when the doctors made a mistake a simple operation for appendicitis and again another operation…I was without strengths…from that bed of the hospital I saw in television the last scenes of a great man I loved very much, the Pope…Karol was near to death…how much I want to go to Rome in that moment…on my feet too but my body…was tired!
In all of those moments I didn’t never stop me to help other persons, friends, people of my family or perfects unknowns! My better strength is been to spread love abuntantly so in this way I fought my solitude!
I chose the symbol of the warrior of the light, what was better of this?
This is my first tattoo…never I could think to make one…instead…when Michele (a coincidence his name) begins to engrave this symbol on my skin I feel as a warm blade of a sword…he forged these lines with iron and fire just like God had forged my spirit!
-I ‘d like to choose a right date to do it-…I thinked. 2009/03/26 = 11.11 is perfect, for me rappresent the destruction and the reconstruction but in that day I had only an appointment…well…the tattoo was so little that he requested me -Do you want to make it now?- and I -Ok!-
This symbol bind me to my friends too…Barbara, Jacky, Manuela, to all warriors of light and surely to you!
I define a sign like everything you can see and feel inside.
Thats why the sign to me isnt the same to you, because people dont feel the same about the same signs.
My sign is my intuition. And I feel it so present in my life, in everything I do.
I always follow it. Many things were going to be right when I did it.
So, I will go on.
Best Regards,
Fernanda
Too personal.
Often left puzzled till the time is right.
Sorry should have said Anima…. Not Animus Kealan,
Words …. confusion!
Anima Mundi -
Therefore, we may consequently state that: this world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence … a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
—Plato, Timaeus, 29/30; 4th century BCE
Sometime I find it hard to take some decision.
What do I do then?
Years ago, I used to torture myself, trying to find the perfect solution.
Now, when I find it hard to take a decision, I simply do not take it.
I just wait.
And soon the answer comes along – and it always turn out to be the right one.
Love,
Rossana Curri
It is interesting, but I do not know if I believe the theory dear Pandora. I suppose I will have to wait and see. But we must agree that it is better to know all now than to wait for the afterlife.
Luce -of course ; how is it we always forget
that in front of our eyes.. the biggest sign
man’s changing influence on the world – for worse and tear…
I agree, it would be good that one day the human race woke.
Question:
Where does the ‘P’ go
[disappear to/get to]
on your signature Paulo?
The letter ‘P’ is by FAR the most precious of those in the alphabet ;o)
Maybe it is kept in a hidden treasure box
xx
Dear sido
thank you for praying for me,i need every bit of prayer now.I am scared excited and happy.I mean i am going to meet him,i mean guess who Jesus,i mean on his human body like you and us.It is like transition period.The evil forces are doing their best,to stop me.You don’t know i am saving every ounce of my breath to free myself.I cry and pray to be free from this place,and every time i try to take one step many obstacle fall on my path.Then i had this vision.Father ( our God) took me for a ride in a bus,the place was eerie and as if i was in horror movie,the first seat was empty.It must have been for someone who owns that bus,but father and i sat in silence and just rode the bus.He let me see things from behind.I saw myself in my old apartment and i saw someone listening to my conversation behind the curtain,it couldn;t be seen but i could see the curtain moving in the air and could feel that it was listening to me talking with my freinds.Then i saw another scene where father and i was talking in my new room.I saw one pair of dark eyes listening to our conversation,( father was letting me see things making me stand behind that force and showing me the past).The scene was when Father was saying jokingly ,*Baby now we will go different ways and i will go to another baby like you,and i was complaining like a baby saying No father,i want to stay with you and you are mine father and i laughed later saying of course you can love other too.*
I saw those dark eyes watching us ,and surprisingly i could feel his feeling,when i said those thing and when father was blessing me ,i felt his jelousy.He was jelous that i was loved by father so much.God let me feel his feelings and i was thinking why would he be feeling jelous seeing father loving me,coz he always do.Then after showing this father told me as i was sitting on his lap like 3 years old baby,showing me the map of the world which looked like a child’ game board.*They are not letting you go,and showed me the part of the continent in which i am in now.They are not letting you go thats what he said.Then before i could open my eyes the evil eyes which had followed me , pounded on me and i saw the real darkness,i could feel his face and body on me with all the evilness on his voice ,like an animal.He was strangling me and i could sense his anger jelousy everything.I could feel the human like shape of his structure with my hand,as i was trying to save myself from being strangelled.I recited *our father in heaven* to save myself,he was pressing me more and i recited ,until i could breath no more.I knew it wasn;t dream it wasn’t vision,it was real.I saw him face to face ,the one they talk about ever since eternity.The prince of darkness.
I wanted to write about it that time and ask everyone to pray for me to let me go and fulfill what is written but i don;t know what stopped me then.I am still fighting,and i will fight and i will take my path,coz He is waiting for me.Well maybe i maybe be gifted than other and i can see many things but i am going to see and meet jesus in his real body and people keep on thinking ,when will jesus come to save us.He will come of course like said on bible through sky but those are for those people who talk nonsense about him.Well he is here and i think,i can’t wait to see him.I miss laughing with him enjoying ,talking and of course,i miss my best friend my saviour everything.I feel sad leaving father but i am happy i will be with jesus and i think everyone should be happy as well.No one knows the exact time not even the son only fathers knows,so that whole people can see him,but hey i can’t wait to run to him and hug him and say,i miss you,what took you so long.I sometime think i will faint or this and that and what gift should i give him or what shall i say but my head is empty.Of course this is private meeting but i can’t help sharing to you all.I will tell you what happened when i will first meet him.I know his sense of humor always makes me laugh.
The fighter hope who will meet him soon :-)
On starting at a new university to do a masters degree, i was wary of coping since i had been depressed and then bullied(for being depressed!!!) at my undergrad uni. I was so fearful and ready to go it alone again if i had to.
Then I got a sign..
my course colleagues were a great bunch and full of similar enthusiasm and sights set on fulfilling dreams. But there was one guy who befriended me
and slowly, slowly I began to realise just what a blessing this friendship was indeed…
and that was ‘my’ sign that the year would go better than i was fearing… because along came some fantastic person who befriended me ! ;o) All was not lost. It ‘was’a chance for a new beginning.
Savita , savita : “Her first question: How do I know what is a sign and what is not a sign? My answer to this is: If you have to ask, then it probably isn’t a sign”
yes, when you have a sign from God: the certainty and faith are present : sure
Two big significant signs I had till now in my life:
1.Two month after I came together with my husband,One day ,after we loved us,we both saw that the light in bath ´which was lightly obscure,was changed in white light and in that moment we saw eachother in the eyes and wonder what`s happened? We knew that a new soul was just passing in through this world,and we will became a Babay!!!We said only:what have we done?(in positive way,for sure)
2.21 February 2006 -I was extremly happy to went with my husband to Hofburg,in Vienna to Ball!Everything goes very harmonius betwin us;in the morning aprox. at 6 am ,I dremt that THE AURA (like a egg form maybe 40 cm tall,and made of spectral colors rays) was passing through the window and it tooks my body inside it(sorry I can not explained with other words);I´v waked up in that moment and stand up because the impact was TOO REAL and I knew it again that I am pregnant!
By the way,the foto that i put in the blog is from that BEAUTIFUL Day!
Love,
Mirela(the woman in elevator)
I had a strong sign when just five – in fact it was a premonition .. of a foreboding feeling.
If i had spoken up and told my parents, then this may have backed up my mum… and the following events could not have taken place. Instead, the female principle (mum)was told to not be emotional; the young voice (myself) was of a society where children are seen, not heard… and so i didn’t mention anything.
But the next morning my world changed, life took a different direction and so here i am today wondering how that sign, that feeling of a premonition was so strong and powerful; that it had the potential to change and alter my own response [if only i had taken the gamble/chance].
I still get whisphers of this sign and it is usually being aware of danger [as was that first experience]. Maybe someone is following, or the politics are getting too critical, or whatever… I find myself reflecting on the warnings of that sign in the past and considering what they may be trying to get me to do this time…. I now know its a warning and to pay attention… but to do what!!
so signs for me are messages from God and are also part of destiny, fate, maybe even karma. they are keys to the next level. they are prayers left as Buddha flags. they are a candle flame in the dark. they are not always good, but their intention is to make good win over evil …
Dear Paulo,
thank you for raising this subject. As it is very important for me and many others.
When we are babies, we are able to communicate with our surrounding using signs. We can feel our mother love, we can feel the meaning of a touch or a look… We are able to see things and understand signs that we no longer allow ourselves to see when we are “adults” and we lose this feeling of the world around us.
Society teaches us and obliges us to look at the world in a certain way that goes with rules and norms. So we end up putting away the vision that we had.
Fortunately not all human beings become like this, because some of us, try to stay in tune with the surroundings. It is important to know that we are more than a flesh and skin, we are an energy field inside a bigger enerfy field, and we are connected to the nature, we are connected with the tree, the sea.. That’s why as much as we are in contact with the nature, we will be able to receive and understand those natural signs. The mother earth is always giving us signs. All what we have to do is to stay alerted and to understand the message.
Some people call it God, others Nature, or Magnetic field.. Whatever your believes are, definitely there is something bigger than us, that is taking care of us, and talking to us via signs..
As you are saying Paulo, signs are individualized. My signs are different than yours. I think it depends on the energy level we are in; on every energy level the signs will be different. For some people it is easy to get, for others it’s not so obvious..
For me dreams are the language that God talks to me. I always have precognitive and meaningful dreams. The signs from my dreams are most of the time very clear. For example few months ago, I had a dream that I entered a church for St. Joseph, later I had a dream that you Paulo visited me and that I was happy and excited. What happened later is that few weeks ago you invited me to the party of St. joseph and I met you :)
this the most important and beautiful sign i got this year.
Love,
Sara from Lebanon
Dear Paulo,
thank you for raising up this subject. As it is very important for me and for many others.
When we are babies, we are able to communicate with our surrounding using signs. We can feel our mother love, we can feel the meaning of a touch or a look… We are able to see things and understand signs that we no longer allow ourselves to see when we are “adults”; we lose this feeling of the world around us. Society teaches us and obliges us to look at the world in a certain way that goes with rules and norms. So we end up putting away the vision that we had.
Fortunately not all human beings become like this, because some of us, try to stay in tune with the surroundings. It is important to know that we are more than a flesh and skin, we are energy fields inside a bigger energy field and we are connected to the nature, we are connected with the tree, the sea.. That’s why as much as we are in contact with the nature, we will be able to receive and understand those natural signs.
The mother earth is always giving us signs. All what we have to do is to stay alerted and to understand the message. Some people calls it God, others Nature, or Magnetic field.. Whatever our believes are, definitely there is something bigger than us, that is taking care of us, and talking to us via signs..
As you are saying Paulo, signs are individualized. My signs are different than yours. I think it depends on the energy level we are in; on every energy level the signs will be different. For some people it is easy to get, for others it’s not so obvious..
For me dreams are the language that God talks to me. I always have precognitive and meaningful dreams. The signs from my dreams are most of the time very clear. For example few months ago, I had a dream that I entered a church for St. Joseph, later I had a dream that you Paulo visited me and that I was happy and excited. What happened later is that few weeks ago you invited me to the party of St. joseph and I met you :) This is the most important and beautiful sign that i got this year.
Love <3,
Sara from Lebanaon
Every time a situation teachs me to be a better person, put me closer to my dream or protects me of bad things, a sing shows up.
thanks Paulo for having this place to share our ideas!
Diego, BA – BR
What is a “sign” and what is not a “sign?” This is the primary question for some, and it is not easily answerable. Anything can be a sign, and yet sometimes even the most bizarre coincidences are just that – mere coincidences, and nothing more. They seem to possess no apparent meaning at all.
This sort of “paranoia” or obsession with signs is something that I can certainly comprehend, and I can think of one example in particular. There is this friend of mine who calls me on the phone fairly frequently to illicit my input in helping her interpret these events that she deems as “signs.” Her first question: How do I know what is a sign and what is not a sign? My answer to this is: If you have to ask, then it probably isn’t a sign. When something occurs that I would classify as a “sign,” something most unusual and unmistakable happens, at least for me. (It may not be this way for other people at all.) At the moment when the thing appears or occurs, I have this sense, suddenly – almost as if time itself had stopped – a sense of being “outside of time.” I don’t know any other words to use to describe this peculiar and yet unmistakable sensation. It’s almost as if everything is still in motion around me, and yet I and this object, or this person (or whatever it is that is happening – this “sign”) have been transported instantaneously to this place outside of normal time and space. And the dimension of “space” does too, at times, play a big part in it, just as does the dimension of “time.” It is usually one or the other, or both. A person might be standing in front of me, maybe a stranger on a street corner, and this person turns to me and starts speaking, and all of a sudden, the sensation I have of this person is much like the impression given of a cartoon image superimposed upon a realistic background, as happens sometimes in movies. The person I am looking at and listening to appears to have been “stuck” there, disconnected from the things around them, somehow detached from the background of everything else around them. This sensation of the detachment from time or from space only last a moment and then it is gone, but it is very unnerving, as there is nothing else, no other experience in life with which to compare it. When this happens, I know unmistakably that what I am witnessing is a “sign.”
And yet there are other “signs” which occur, more frequently, in a much more subtle manner. These are the sorts of things my friend questions – How do I know which are signs and which are mere coincidences? A few days ago, for example, she sent me a text: “I keep seeing red cars everywhere!” I didn’t reply because I didn’t know what to say about that. Later a similar text came in: “Another red car!” Still I didn’t reply. The next day, she called me and said that she had been seeing all of these red cars, everywhere she turned, there was another red car. “What do you think this means?” she asked. “What does it mean to you?” I replied. “Do you know anyone who owns a red car? Is there anything in particular that you associate with red cars?” Her response was a negative – “red car” meant nothing to her, the term “red car” held no particular significance in her personal mythology. “Well then,” I said, “I think that maybe it means there are just a lot of red cars on the road recently. Or maybe you saw several red cars in a row, which struck you as odd, and then you became super-sensitized to red cars and, so, began to see them everywhere. maybe they were there all along, and you just never noticed before.” I said this, not to discourage her form reading “signs” in her life, but because I see her, at times, as obsessed with the concept of signs – looking for them everywhere, attempting to create them out of thin air. We can make almost anything into a “sign” if we want to, especially if we are willing to stop and go look the thing up in a book somewhere: To the ancient Greeks, the owl represented this…. To the Native Americans, the gopher meant that…. The list are endless is we wish to make a sign out of something that we see or experience in our lives. But the validity of that sign still comes back to two questions, I think: What was you immediate sensation when you beheld this thing or at the moment when it occurred? And what, if anything, does it represent to you – not in a dictionary of ancient mythology, not the definition from some dream dictionary, but to you as an individual – what significance does this object or event hold in the realm of your personal mythology. God is going to speak to us in a language that we know. (Not in some dead language, and not in some language that is foreign to us.) Now, if you are an expert on ancient mythology, or Native American symbolism, or if your hobby is reading about “animal signs” in nature, then maybe that hawk flying overhead does mean something, maybe it is a message directed toward you,one that you are meant to interpret and do something with. But, otherwise, maybe that hawk is just a hawk, and nothing more.
All in all, I think it is easy to get carried away with the idea of “signs.” It is true that signs can happen anywhere and everywhere, even on a daily basis, but it is also true that we can become too eager for a sign to enter our lives, too anxious for direction or excitement, and thus begin to interpret just about anything and everything as a “sign from above.”
And, indeed, signs, as well as the interpretation thereof, are highly personal and individual. Paulo Coelho finds a particular white feather and thereby knows that it is time to write. I used to find white feathers almost on a daily basis, outside my apartment in Miami. But I also happen to collect feathers, so I am always looking for them. Secondly, and not least of all in importance, several white pigeons roosted in the eaves of the building in which I lived – of course I found white feathers! Were they a message from God to me? – I don’t think so. I think they were simply white feathers, nothing more.
So what sort of signs do occur in my life? A few examples: One day I was at a friends house, just having a chat, when my cell phone rang. it was another dear friend of mine, and the first words out of her mouth were: “Savita! You’re pregnant?!” My response was one of complete astonishment, “What?! What do you mean? Of course I’m not pregnant!” About three weeks later I figured up the dates – the date she had called me was likely the very date that I had conceived my daughter. I was pregnant! And so how did she know? (She isn’t a psychic.) She said that her boyfriend, also a good friend of mine, who was walking out the door to go somewhere, turned back to her just as he stepped out the door, and said, back over his shoulder, “By the way, have you heard? Savita’s pregnant.” He never said those words, didn’t have a clue what she was talking about, and yet somehow she heard that message loud and clear and related it to me, despite the fact that I didn’t take it seriously at first. I did not plan to have a child. But when I found out that I was pregnant, in looking back at that most impossible event, I interpreted it as a sign that, whatever the external circumstances, this pregnancy was “meant to be” – this child was meant to come into my life.
Another similarly “big” sign: Outside my house, in my back yard, there stands a most unusual tree – what appears, at first glance, to be a single,large oak, but which, upon closer inspection, reveals itself actually to be two individual trees, two separate trunks intertwined around one another – corkscrew fashion, like the twist-tie on a bread wrapper – so tightly that the barks have fused to become one skin. One the “seam” is visible, and, if you look way up in the canopy, two tops. In my mind, in my personal mythology, that tree is a promise directly from God, to me (not unlike the rainbow was to Noah). The nature of that promise is highly personal, and so I hesitate to share it, but nonetheless, it is very very real to me. Nothing will convince me that that tree is not a “sign” from above. I am still waiting for that promise to be fulfilled, but anytime that I begin to doubt its eventuality, its inevitability – anytime that my faith wanes thin – I have only to stand over the sink and stare out my kitchen window and that tree and be reminded that one day that promise that God made to me will be made real. It will manifest itself in my life just as solidly as that tree.
vasiliki:there is no difference,we are never alone,so therefore when we are talking to ourselves,we are talking to God.But some people don’t get that we are all half Gods yet.Someday,they will know,let them joke a bit if that makes them happy.
Happy spring to you too from the Swiss border :D
Oh how many signs The Nature sends to all of us day after day and pray us to change !!!!
It is up to us to see them and recognize them for what they are, and ACT !
don’t know where I would be without “signs”. They have save me many times throughout my life, when I chose to listen to them.Reading them requires also cultivation and reflection, faith with an open heart and the message will get more clear! God talks to us all the time.
JOKE: why is it that when we talk to God, it’s called prayer, but when God talks to us we call it paranoia?
Happy spring to everyone from very green North Carolina, usa
vasiliki
I don’t really believe in signs. I don’t know if there are or not, but I think that if someone has the tense to interpret something, for example a word, an ad or a picture as a sign, then he/she will do it. It’s a matter of believing or faith or even of how “open” you are. The only thing I believe is that we never must say never. I have many examples of that and I don’t know if it is a matter of signs. So, I don’t reject the possibility of believing in signs in the near or distant future. (added by Mobile using Mippin)
Dear Paulo and hi all,
Thank you for this piece on signs. I follow and look for signs everyday and they send me the reasuurance that I need.
Pixie Girl, thank you for what you said about your vivid dream. I had a vivid dream which I mentioned on this site a few days ago. You have just given me a sign and shown me that my dream is closer than I think I thank you and God bless you.
Love
TL
PS I hope to get to Paris one year to meet Mr Coelho
Signs…. And this topic is one of them for me… My life has been a roller coaster ride since sometime now… A lot to deal with… A Lot to ponder upon… And what kept me going were these signs… Its overwhelming sometimes…
Since morning today I had been thinking that am I trying to interpret everything as a sign and its only in my mind…Or is it for real and it does actually mean something… And when I have logged in to my computer today, I have found this discussion on… This definitely is a sign… But is it to tell me that I am obsessing over it or to tell me that I am indeed understanding it alright… Interpretations of the signs I guess is the most critical and the most difficult thing to do…
How right or wrong I am… Well! Only the time will tell…
Hi everyone..
Thanks Mr. Coelho for discussing this topic once again as I had requested the same some times back :)
For me studying signs have been one of the strangest experiences. It is like God is directing me to follow a particular path. It is like a connection…. a way of communication with the almighty. Of course, it is not wise to discuss about the signs with everyone. I believe it is one’s individual communication with God and once you may it public, your belief is often shaken by public opinion.
I feel myself blessed to have received signs quite a number of times. Some of them are personal while I share some others with friends. I would like to share one such sign I received a few days back.
Now I have a personal dream; and I live every moment to reach that. But, there was a moment, when I was on the edge. I was almost at the point of giving it up; and the thought of abandoning was killing me inside. It was not one of those moments of frustration, but a serious thought of changing my path. I was traveling by bus at that time and all of a sudden my eyes fell on a piece of insurance ad whose punch line was “Spend some time chasing a dream, not banking”. It left me startled.
And I started thinking over again and once again reverted back to my previous path.
Signs are real.They are like you said an individual alphabet to talk to God.They can take many forms:a person,numbers,feathers ect..
Sometimes they lead you to something that will happen shortly after.Reminding you of a person,of something you have to do ect..
I think it’s appropriate individually and only you can recognise them but you can miss them too.You need all your senses to be connected and aware of every little details then I think it’s easy to recognise them and see the difference between real ones and your illusions.You can achieve that by practice.
That’s interesting Kealan.
I do think that we are all part of a World Soul (animus mundi) and that animals are part of that group.
Pandora
Hello Paulo,
I think that what is peculiar in signs is that you feel sure they ARE signs.
You can’t say no to a true sign, and that’s our individual path.
It also means that signs is our individual conversation to God, our special language that nobody else know.
What is really difficult is to separate true signs to the false ones.
Often, when we are excited or worried, it’s difficult to do it, so part of our duty in life is also to understand more and more to recongnize them.That’s experience.
In the end our path is learn to speak to God.
Have a nice day.
Hope you’ll have sunny day (here in Italy it’s raining).
My book that i wrote the 25th and 26th march 2009
in chapter 2:
” 2 angels in my sides bathed me in their energy of the love, this pure Amur about which we dream to feel all its life.
It lasted one moment and then everything disappeared and these words in my spirit which floated ” I shall guide you in the mountain, get ready and let you guide “.
….Since I rely and I master my feelings day after day in the faith of his love.
Most hard, I believe, it is to have to keep(guard) all this in itself, while we would like to cry out it: ” the angels exist, some some have guardian angels with them (I feel them, I have this luck), God’s love is for each of us there; what I lived, everybody could live it if he wanted to open his heart etc etc …
But my soul knows that she has to be allowed guide and trust and always follow her intuition; then by love for you all, by love of the people, by God’s love, here are my words. “”
I cannot describe all the signs of my life, they are so many; in the book which I wrote, I condensed some lived facts.
But I want that the world knows by my history(story): that the time of Moses is still there, that the time of the Christ lives in us, that God spoke to me, that I met St Jean, angels, guardian angels.
I took time to réflechir in the consequences of such revelations (for me and my family) and by love I give my words, even if to choose this way is not the easiest.
I hope to publish(edit) this book at a lower cost to offer him(it) to a very very low price (if I can 2, 3 euro) I do not want money but just to be able to pay the publisher(editor);
I want to give my story as a present for all.
In my book, I also write ” Normal, I say myself; I think that this questioning had to be made.
It is human, we always want any rationnaliser, to argue, to to understand(to include) by the logic, to to explain… Ah explain! How shall can – I to explain what arrived at me? We are going to say that I am crazy, that my spirit gets lost, that I make as Joan of Arc, that I hear voices in brief, the total panic ”
But i wrote too : “But since this November 16th, my spirit opened the eyes….
The veil which was in front of my spirit tore, the veil on my eyes is evaporated, the veil on my ears melted, the veil on my soul slowly flew away and my spirit includes then the whys and wherefores of any thing.
I ask, I thus ask you for this day, which I call my second birth and I thank you for this spirit of the Truth which is …”
and in chapter 5 : ” It is just necessary to know how to open the door, the door which leads to him: the door of YOUR heart;
Only the love, which we call agapé, will be the key to open this door; and the hand which will hold one day this key: it is yours.
I wanted to whisper you just also slowly in the ear: yes, nobody is completed, me the first one, but conscious of the importance which it has for all, for the whole humanity, We have to all try in the same run-up, in the same burst of emotion, in the same Heart, bathed in the same Love.
I love you ”
with all my love , and for His love , for all
Sido
Hope , hope
“If you are honest to your feelings ,you will know your heart ”
yes ,i pray for you , and know that you fell ( sometime it’s difficult in the time , but faith and love in your soul )
Cuando leo su blog descubro en sus lectores, un gran deseo de sentir su alma.
¿Es que acaso el alma es nueva?
la posibilidad de ser esta dentro de nosotros, se nos dio todo y todo lo tenemos , que mas queremos, EL TRABAJO HAY QUE HACERLO.
Asi que no existen formulas magicas, hay que caminar por esta tierra y ver las maravillas que nos fueron entregadas.
Todo lo demas son chorradas de gentes que desean un milagro al estilo de el cine.
Hay que escoger un camino…o todos , pero hay que caminar…y esto es duro, despues esta sentirnos parte del universo, y salir de nosotros para encontrarle a EL, que esta en nosotros como origen .
Amor, compromiso,alegria,TRABAJO,mucho trabajo, y humildad.
Las señales estan por todas partes, en cada hoja en cada nube , en cada instante que no se repite, quiza si nos desconectamos de el sistema, podamos entender que un dia no teniamos mas conección , que nosotros y el universo.
Un saludo para todos y todas y para ti Pablo todo mi cariño.
Rossana , Rossana ,
The visions, as the premonitions, are a gift of God…
Thank you for these presents Lord
Please offer them to us
with all my love , and for His love ;-D
Ca , Ca ,
Eu também às vezes eu abrir uma página ao acaso e ler a resposta que esperava
(Bíblia, Maktub) é conforto para poder dizer que o “acidente” pode ser tão perfeito.
(Mesmo se eu não acredito em azar ;-D )
intuição, fé e amor
Sido
The signs that I believe in come to me in the form of my dreams when sleeping. Sometimes, they are warnings to be careful during the day and also premonitions about the future.
Some dreams are simple – for example, once I dreamt that my car gets towed away and it really happened the next day, when my car broke down. The best part is that I was on the way to the workshop to service my car – to make sure my car was OK!
Some dreams are complex and need to be deciphered with intution and care. But they are mostly accurate and useful to me.
Signs from nature that I have seen are from butterflies , eagles and frogs that bring me good luck. These are a bit personal but help me on my quest for my personal legend.
Sometimes, the signs are confusing though. They require patience and careful interpretation as they can be frustrating when they seem so full of promises but later lead to a dead end.
Julio coelho , julio coelho ,
Alleluia, for the seed to find the water to grow in faith and love of Christ, to the Love of God
Liina , Liina ,
Love so Be it , and co
I understand you, I hesitated a lot before you speak,but you see , for love of people , I tell myself that I must inform them , all .
I made the choice to advance the knowledge of God and the angels and guardian angels.
Of course, I suffer if I lose the connection with them. But I like both men.
and then a message for you all: “that your way of life is always a path of love, wherever you are”
So my choice is forward, and risk all for love, and His Love.
(if the premonitions you afraid to lose:in my personal case, to have told someone did not stop anything; the important thing is that each must do so according to his soul, his intuition and follow the signs ; A TIME FOR EVERY THING AND EVERY THING IN HIS TIME °
fAITH AND LOVE
It is often difficult to define with certainty what signs are, possibly because it does not speak to the mind but to the soul. The wind may blow softly in the same way many times, but it does not whisper the same song.
I have spent most of my adult life watching out for signs, rather than living it on a laid out plan. I believe my destiny calls out to me and it is inevitable that I should respond. I grew up in a structured culture; where children are sent to school to eventually work in an office, where girls are expected to get married to have children, where parents are expected to give up everything for the best of their children, and where we are all expected to embrace growing old and lie low. In the course of my life, I followed my heart always hoping that I am called and like Jonas there are no other destinations.
Years ago, I fell in love with a boy who does not excite me in ways that I have known another to. Yet the first time I looked into his eyes, it felt like he opened up an entire universe of peace and contentment and my heart knew that it was where I wanted to be.
Seventeen years after, a different kind of sign shook my entire being.
He lost his phone. He bought a new one- the phone model I’ve been wanting to buy for myself. So one time I couldn’t help it, I just wanted to have a feel of that phone in my hands. I started pressing buttons… and the pictures went wild. They were photographs of a young woman in many different occasions, alone and with him. They were countless photographs of a smile that was somewhat familiar. I stormed out of the house, not understanding why. I just knew something was wrong.
For months, the probing led me to deep concerns in our relationship. They were very hurting that I cannot forget, not for a moment, that even the person closest to me do not know me at all.
Signs are different every single time. And I suppose they are different, because we never really learn it hard enough to unravel its mystery.
Paulo,
In Colorado we wait for the gulf stream to rise up from the south and blow across our state.
It makes us feel warm and young again.
On my eve of my 45th Birthday I will stand up and walk towards the challenges of my life with the wind always in my face.
What was I waiting for?
I can share thousand signs coz i think i lived with it ever since childhood.No one told me i should see sign but i knew its meaning as eating is for human.My parents never told me and i never said or asked but they also know and have their own individual sign and i have my own.One most important sign was before meeting Jesus and father,well of course at the lowest point of my life and i think few days before they came in my dream ,a father and a son enetred my home and told my mother to tell me to see in my cellphone and i will know.Next day while playing with the camera of my cellphone,i saw the glimpse of jesus which i have ,well his real face i might say.That was the time when God had to go to that extend when i was about to give up everything.BUt before that i had gone out to see some concert in a huge stadium,and in the end they let hundred of doves to fly ,coz that concert was for peace i mean concert of peace.All thsoe white doves flew in all direction in sky and one dove came and landed on my head as if it wanted to bless me.I was scared ,when i felt something on my head,I wanted to scream but i didn’t and to my surprise ,it didn;t catch attention of anyone.I was the only one and few cameraman saw it.For me it was a sign maybe God sent his dove to bless me or to prpare my mind for their arrival.
If you are honest to your feelings ,you will know your heart talking to you coz sign speaks the language of individual heart.
Hope
Same way,many times I had nightmares,with apparently no reason.But,was because some close relative living far away was dead.I knew that after ,and I understood why of the nightmares.
To say one funny,my ex was calling me “little witch”,and prayed me not to tell bad things,for I made them happen….?
Well,I consider dreams as signs sometimes,because if I dream and after a while I live the events ,is obvious that it was a warning dream.For example,when my dog was poisoned by the neighbors ,I was dreaming that I got a black dog in a basket,with a red ribbon.After a day,while wandering in the market,I saw a man with that type of dog,exactly the kind I wanted.Was a female dog,in a basket,so that explains the red ribbon.I took it fast,for others really were interested.I raised and take it too taming school.There I met very nice young people,we had much fun. So,God helped me to pass the bed moment ,and the dream was showing the future.
This video of yours is a sign for me =) I forgot about them in my life for a very long time until now and I think I may have overlooked a lot of them. Some personal signs are seeing my aumakua (ancestors of spirit in the Hawaiian culture), which are the owl and the shark. Dreaming dreams is another. Catching a scent or breeze and being brought a memory of my past that makes me happy and able to make it through the day in times of need… just to name a few. =)
I think the interpretation of signs is dependent on where in the journey the signs appear. A sign at the beginning of a journey will mean something different to the same sign at the end of the journey. Signs are open to interpretation, and that interpretation can be very individual. For instance those coincidences that often occur and are interpreted as a sign for being on the right track, have for me often resulted in nothing. I am much more inclined to to listen to my heart for signs.
Hallo,
Signs happen so often but, sometimes we do not see them…..we do not feel them….
I am very happy to share with you an important sign that happen to my life in a very difficult period and i rarely talk about that…
I was traveling alone from Czech to Italy by train…a night train that last around 10 hours….
I was completely “out of control” after a divorce and i was in a train that i shared until that time beautiful moments…
In the train i was alone to my cabin…and when i look around i notice the other cabins was completely empty apart of one next to me…there was a Brazilian woman…who also traveled to Italy.
we introduced each other and we had a wonderful conversation that let the night passed quickly and all the fears that i had for that trip to disappear…..
Everything seems to be from someone organized because the next day we continue our conversation by walking around Venice till the time i had to take the boat back to Greece…..
The conclusion to that story is that i realized…..I was not alone…that faith comes in the moments we do not wait and so unexpected…..
I never had news again from that woman even if we change emails….and that was a sign for me….
A sign that some people appear to your life for a reason and then they disappear….
I believe She arrived to my life to pass that hard night and help me and then She return back where She belong…..As an Angel do….
God bless You wherever You are now…..
I want to share with you a sign that have change my path….I watched on tv a Paulo Coelho show about The Compostela Pilgrim… was amazing, this lead me to find out about theirs books, I have heard about Coelho Books but never read one, I understand that it is a time for anything in our life, and this was my time to know and undestand Pablo Coelho work…so I started to read The compostela Pilgrim, then i read Veronika dicede to die, then The portobello witch, and I find something specific for me on each book…that help me with my particular situation in my life……so from that time on, i look very carefully to my days to understand the signs that God send me and every step I take….thank….
I had a dream last night that Paulo was about to break into song from an over hanging window, I really don’t know if that is of any significance but there you go! For me signs come when I pray for them, or say “I need a sign right now.” I had a deep thought a few days ago; I was thinking about the Dali Lama and the idea of reincarnation and the language of signs. As we know we live about 80 or 90 years, and throughout those years we see many signs… For example, I saw a bird when I was ten and it had some meaning for me… When I was fifteen I caught a fish… When I was twenty a dog bowed to me after an experience… etc… etc…
So now, I began to think about the book Brida and how our soul may split into many different souls. I applied this theory to my idea and the thought developed into… We live our life here on earth and the same energy and animals surround us from birth to death. That energy and the animals are constantly being reincarnated and returning to us as part of our own personal soul. So when we call for a sign our energy reaches out to that other part of the soul and brings us a symbol.
Every human being I meet is a sign. From a stinking bum in a bus to a course mate with same psychological complexes as mine. I think that when trying to understand signs, it is very important to understand, that world is really intelligent and is trying to communicate with you in very smart ways. Sometimes I’m amazed how a very “unimportant” situation helps me to understand the big picture – something much more important. Everything in life is connected.
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