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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I can’t run from the #’s 222! If it’s 12:22 ,2:22 a.m or 2:22 p.m. I’m seeing it; It showed up on the DVD player as I paused it 2:22, on statements 222, adresses 222 and now my cell phone 817-222-2012? I have the person name that called me from that (#)……
I am not sure if I should be calling it a sign,but I have come across such situations many times.On many instances I have been caught in a dilema and for days I have not been able to take a decision. For example when my husband proposed to me for marriage I was caught in a terrible dilema-I like him but feared that he might also betray me like my former boyfriend.I was suffering from a broken past and this made me very apprehensive of entering another relationship. At that time I prayed to god and asked for a sign to guide me in the right path.Incredibly,this happened and helped me to take the most important decision of my life.Even now I continue taking decisions based on signs whenever I am in a dilema.Trust me I have never gone wrong.
How can one differentiate a sign from an intention manifestation activity? I believe that a thought thrown out to the universe catches energy and manifest itself to a form depending on the strength of faith given to that thought.When I left the company I worked for 10 years, I didnt have anything inlined to do, no job to bounced into. And in that moment of my depression about starting all over again, not having the self esteem to support myself for anothr job, I had to find a way to inspire me, since I believe inspiration keeps us well. At one point I visualized my self getting married to a particular man, brown hair, blue eyes and my sign to find is he wears white shirt and blue jeans. three years later, I saw this guy in the new company I am working for and his physical look caught my eye. Telling myself, this is the man I will end up marrying, I went home and imagined and fantasized and prayed about this man. Three more years and it has been series of intention manifistation, he would wear white shirt and blue jeans, the small myna birds which is my sign from god that everything will be okey keeps appearing, But I never had the courage to approach this man. So what are the signs for? If signs are there to trigger us to act on something we badly want, what would give us courage to do what we have to do?…
Hello Charlene,
I often wonder too how to differentiate a Sign from an intention manifestation.
For me, the only determining factor has been time, time tells, but I hope Paulo you can help us to see this a bit more clearer.
Love
C.
Really interesting, although I cannot help. I cannot tell the difference.
What would I do?
I would approach this man because I would consider this a sign.
Love and much light.
Adriana
I also sometimes wonder what the signs are for. And I wonder if there is a difference between premonitions/feelings of what is going to happen from real signs. Sometimes I feel strongly that something is going to happen but then it just does and I don’t have chances to change it (or, at least, I think so). What should I do then? Try harder? Or learn to distinguish intuition from signs?
Anyway, I think that this man is really important for you. I have a similar story in my life with one girl. There have been signs about her that God has given me. Try to do as much as you can to be as near him as you can.
Greets,
Kamil:)
i had this weird premonition or something. while on my way to work, i do my usual morning prayer on the bus. my thoughts are usually scattered so i usually stick to the routinary flow of praying before my mind would doze off. during the prayer time, my thoughts would really wander off. last sunday, i was thinking about diary writing. when i got to the office, did my usual coffee to start the day while reading the morning paper. then, on the front page (not the headline though), the topic on the lifestyle section was about diary writing and sometime during the day, i read on the net about the video footage of Anne Frank. then on Monday, i was again on my usual morning prayer. i was just thinking about my life and how i can turn it around. then i thought of a phrase like “smile, and the world smiles at you”. then, when i checked on facebook in the afternoon, i read somebody’s shout out as “laugh, and the world laughs with you.” that was when i thought that these are not just coincidence that what would cross my mind as a thought would be repeated to me as a message from other people. two days in a row!
then again yesterday, i was praying for rain (an almost impossible one because i am now living in the desert and it hasn’t rained for monthsss now). i was thinking that i miss the rain and how i enjoyed it when it would sometimes unexpectedly rains back in my home in the tropics. me and my friend call the sudden rain as “justice from heaven”.
then yesterday, i received an email saying something like “the rain from heaven falls on the just and the unjust”. coincidence again?
i dont know what this exactly means. but i have not excercised my psyche for quite some time now.
i can not excercise my mental powers or whatever coz its against me religion. but i hope i can put to good use whatever it is that’s happening in my mind.
my sign is my father’s death. my father’s death means i’m not suppose to be a doctor or scientist.
Hi everyone.
I get signs all the time and the most important ones I have to keep private to myself, but I began to notice them in 1990.
The very first one I noticed was on the 25th July 1990. I went for a walk with my boyfriend and we stopped outside a church. We were infront of the commemoration stone in the wall of the church telling us that the church was built on the 25th July 1878, and we both suddenly realised that the day was also the 25th July.
That is the first sign I remember experiencing in my life.
I had 3 on Friday the 27th March, but they are very personal.
All I will say is that the last one was about the coming of the Age of Aquarius – it told me that this dawn of a new age has arrived.
My only advice is BELIEVE IN YOUR SIGNS, BUT LET THEM HAPPEN – DON'T SPEND TOO MUCH ENERGY LOOKING FOR THEM. THEY WILL HAPPEN IF YOU FOLLOW YOUR HEART.
AND SIGNS ARE SIGNS – FORM NOT ESSENCE. LOOK FOR THE ESSENCE. ITS IN OUR HEARTS AND SOULS.
Karen xxxxxxxxxxxxx
As I see it, we have to develope the ability to discern what thing or event is a sign meant for us, and what is just a flight of our imagination. In working with meditation we can learn how to receive answers from our Higher Self. But even then, our imagination ,or ego, can trick us into thinking we have been given a sign.
What I can say is that it is something that takes much practice, and conscious effort to be able to determine when to leap and when to look
Signs are comforting in that they have always been there; disabling because they can almost appear “too good to be true.” Doubt and faith are fickle. It’s hard for me to know how much to write; I feel like I’m already writing too much. In any event, the signs were what lead me to this site – to watching this video. It took five years to come to this, and this may have hopefully been only just the beginning. When I was a child, I was in love with the outdoors. I would strain grass and plants and flowers and make perfumes and other concoctions. I was born Catholic and attended Catholic school but was convinced I was a seventh grade witch who was devoted to Wicca. My priest told me this was out of fear for the sins I had made, and turned me from that path during high school. I decided, out of sheer laziness, to attend the Community College instead of applying to Georgetown, where my father graduated. In an Intro. to Sociology class I sat next to a boy who had recently returned from teaching English in Ghana. I decided then I would volunteer. My assignment was in Cape Town, South Africa, at a children’s convalescent home. During a field trip away from our volunteer placements, I overheard two men with American accents talking about New Jersey. It caught my ear because we were listening to a lecture about penguins ending up on the southern tip of Africa and that was not apart of the discussion. I entered in and introduced myself. They were both old enough to be my grandfathers. As we got to talking, one of the gentlemen said he was an alumni of Georgetown University – one that takes interviewees for the college and helps decide their fate. Nevertheless he told me to look him up when I applied, and gave me 100 Rand to spend on souvenirs. Needless to say I felt something there, and was compelled instead to try to attend the University of Cape Town. I made a trip back that following March. (The experience had taken place in August) In March I fell in love all over again – to the point where I almost changed my flight to come back to the states. I very reluctantly decided against this, as my best friends had taken off work to pick me up from the airport. There were two flights I had to take to get home. On the first, I ended up being seated next to a professor from the University of Cape Town; he was traveling with the dean to give a presentation about geology. He was extremely genuine and gave me his card, telling me that he had friends in admissions and would lend me a helping hand. Back in New Jersey, I met a boy and dropped everything to go and be with him. I rediscovered a love for film and acting that I had had since I was a child, but was diminished by my father’s love for medicine and things of reason. No more than a week afterwards, my boyfriend’s friend Eric and Eric’s father came to stay the night with us as they were passing through the south. His father, turns out, has not only a SAG card but studied with Mike Nichols. He also told me if I ever needed anything, he was a phone call away. These signs and experiences – basically I think God telling me anything is indeed possible as long as you CHOOSE – made my head spin. It was at this time I decided to re-read the Alchemist. I had read every one of your books and they all moved me. I had the latest one, Brida, but was waiting to devour it because I did not know when another story would come out. As I’m telling this to my boyfriend, my heart is telling me to read it anyway – there was something that I needed to take away from it. Immediately. So I read the book in a day. I can’t even describe the feelings and energies it evoked. I had a spiritual healer, she was one of my mother’s best friends, she was incredibly gifted. Said I was too, and in time it would come full circle. I never listened to her much because she said smoking marijuana would be a downfall for me and as a teenager I refused to believe that. She passed away and I no longer get to speak to her of the wonderful things that are past lives, etc. I went on the internet to look for Paulo Coelho. Anything I could get my eyes on – especially having to do with the Traditions of the Sun and the Moon. I came across this, and an advertisement for your new book! Which I had no idea had been released. The signs were and are everywhere. Now I sit dumbfounded – but mystified – but all that has happened up until this point – I have twenty one years, the same amount that Brida had beginning her search. I’m not sure where to go from here. In the same, I am exactly sure where to go from here.
Even in escaping the “responsibility” of writing this, the signs keep bringing me back.
i can relate to your experience.
i was also born and raised Catholic. i also came to a point of practicing wiccan but had to stop it because i was told that witchcraft is contradicting my traditional religion.
my favorite book is The Alchemist and i just finished reading Brida.
i also met someone who believes that my third eye is open.
lately, i have been receiving signs as well.
for now i am so confused about the relation of my religion to the wiccan art.
unfortunately, i have not yet met my “teacher” who can guide me through the confusion i am in.
hi everybody,as i didn’t come here since some weeks?,well i see many letters,new people,this is a good new!!
Lina.L
The connection with all things hey? A good sign.
Yesterday, I was on another trainride to the city I study in. I haven’t really been looking out of the train window lately because I have used this time on the train to polish my classes that I have to prepare for the children (speech therapy).
Yesterday, I did.
And I got three signs:
First sign: there was a field made by a man, to grow some plants. But since the spring just started and the snow has just melted (and at some places still is melting), the field was only pure dirt. And from the melted snow and from the rains there had appeared a water puddle, in the middle of the field. In the middle of the water puddle there was a perfect white swan swimming and cleaning itself with its little “ugly” swan-ducklings (3 of them?), who, in the future, will also grow into perfect white swans. Beautiful and graceful.
Second sign: also another field (some minutes later), and on that field a pair of swamp-cranes. Gray coloured, another graceful creatures.
Third sign: Another deer, who was again scared of the train-noises and jumped between the trees to hide. And actually, before I saw the deer, I was hoping for one, since I hadn’t seen any… seems silly, but I was uncontrollably happy when I saw one. And BTW. I was glad to have seen the deer, because since the snow is melted it’s a bit more hard to spot and notice them – they are brown and the nature has not yet waken yet, so it is brownish also. But since the deer was moving, it was easy… (I bet some are thinking why do I go on with the deer talk, it’s just silly. Well, I just love nature and animals – since I was a child, really. That’s my odd-spot.)
So, the past fears of losing the signs was empty fears.
I feel a little silly, but thankful to have learned the lesson.
Thank You.
Liina L.
the Valkyries was a sign. a sign that your the one who must know the miracle: the ribble.
Treu symboles are not the product of our conscious-ego!
The problem starts when we try to consciously creat/see symboles!
Here, our consiouse starts to trick us to see and hear what it wishes to see and hear and all goes wrong…
Treu symbols have the charactarestic of being numinous, that is why they are hard to be realized and for lots of people hard to be believed..
It takes to activate our other organs of comprehension (rather than logic alone) to able to see and understand symboles..
Sometime, when I think about signs I remember this movie, “Evan Almighty”, and especially the conversation between “God” (Morgan Freeman) and Evan’s wife:
“God: Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkf-J9TjGPc&feature=related
I can only pray that we can always be aware of the chances that our God gives us to grow up and follow our path… signs.
Love and have you all a wonderful Monday,
Rossana
Dear all,
Signs and symbols are the way we try to intrepret the meaning in our life. A sign for each individual is different and will have different meaning with different signs and symbols.
+Signs are good way to follow where one is heading in one’s life.
+Signs can sometimes mis-direct your path but still the signs of heart will always get back you to the right track.
+Those who does not see any signs, are simply following their heart- it does not necessarily means you are not being watched. Every individual is watched and taken full care by the creator.
+Life is full of uncertainity and with every new situations we might just indulge ourselves with difficulty but during those times, remember to listen to yourself rather than any object.
God bless you all !
As Paulo already indicates, signs are something very personal, and what is interpreted as a real ‘sign’ for one person, might mean absolutely nothing to somebody else.
Often, I believe, signs manifest themselves in what Jung called ‘synchronicity’ of events and in what scientists would call ‘mere coincidence’. It often leads us to questions like ‘is there a really a greater power above us that directs all necessary forces for things to happen?’ or ‘am I the one imagining this, am I being paranoid?’.
Whilst modern scientific studies are there to prove that ‘God’ would be a creation of the human mind as a survival mechanism, I do admit it is very difficult to accept the beauty, magic and perfection of everything around us (an African Paradise Flycatcher, a newly born baby, a Haworthia Attenuata…) The human brain has enormous powers, it can do almost anything (heal a sick body, smell an apple without it being there, …), but usually on one condition: belief.
I think what turns a daily event into a sign is belief. And belief is something very personal. Let me share a few of my personal ‘sign-stories’ with you.
I moved from Belgium to South Africa two years ago (this is because I am trying to live my own legend – when people see my copy of the Alchemist, I tell them: “that’s my bible”.)
Just over a year ago, I had a horrible day at work (one of those days where just everything that can go wrong actually goes wrong). That past year, my wife and I both had been struggling with the emotional changes involved in a move from one continent to another. So when I came home that day, in full desperation, I walked into my garden, looked up to the sky and said: “God, give me one reason why I should stay in this country”. When I looked down, I saw a whitish animal that looked like a mouse, but upon looking closer, I saw that it was a newly born kitten, abandoned by the mother. Half an hour later, we found a second kitten, 50 meters apart from where we found the first one. We kept it warm ‘au bain marie’ for the first hours, until a designed a special box with a lamp that would keep them at the ideal temperature for the first to weeks. We had to wake up every hour in the first two weeks to bottle-feed them, but that was no problem, because I knew, this was a sign. ‘why should you abandon your dreams for a bad day at work? Things will go better’. You can find pictures of Ninja and Gorby on http://www.picasaweb.google.com/jan.praet
One of the hardest things about moving to South Africa was leaving behind family and friends. We agreed to keep in touch via e-mail and chat. When last visiting friends and family in Belgium, my best friend and I concluded that it was not easy to keep in touch bacause we were both living our stressful lives, miles apart. We agreed the following: upon my return to South Africa, I would buy a chess game. We would then not simply mail each other, but every time we wanted to mail, we would have to include a chess move AND somemething special (e.g. a link to a nice website, a nice picture…)
Months passed by and I didn’t buy a chess board. Until I was in a chat with my friend, and he admitted that he did not find the time either. I made a promise: “I will buy the board this weekend”.
As usual, my weekend was packed with things to do: go to the bank, go shopping, work in the house… I was helping my wife with the household when I suddenly remembered I needed to have a spare key made. My wife said: “Do you really have to do this now? Can’t you do it some other day?” But I insisted, thinking: “If I don’t do it now, it will never happen.” When I walked into the shopping center that afternoon, the first thing I saw was a temporary exhibit from a furniture outlet in the middle of the alley. The centerpiece consisted out of a study table with the most beautiful wooden carved chess board on top. That was a sign! I immediately went into a shop to be a chess board and mailed my move later that afternoon.
Just as Paulo mentions there are signs for each of us to receive individually. I find this true when trying to understand the meaning of poetry. Poetry whispers something different to each person. Some poetry will urge you to take a step towards your own personal next level. Its purpose is to not leave you where it found you. There’s really no cause to be intimidated when it comes to understanding poetry. Poetry is like a child seeking friends to get to know. Welcome it and soon enough you will learn that poetry understands you.
Hi, two days ago, I decided suddenly to walk on a street that is not common to my routine when I finish class. On that street, I found a girl I met some years ago… the only girl that I’ve been falled in love with. I invited her to some drinks, to talk… we danced… and we kissed! now she’s my lovely girlfriend :D It was all sudden, and I could read those signs, thanks to your words Paulo.
Regards,
Camilo from Colombia
Ps! I remember myself once, while looking out of the train window again, questioning myself and my feelings. If it was true or not… what I was feeling.
Let it be mentioned, that the train ride is about 2 hours and 10 minutes, or 2,5 hours, depending on the day and the circumstances.
I remember feeling “the right love”, but I did not recieve the sign. And at a time, I was hopeless. Most of the train ride was over and there was about 15-20 minutes left to recieve the sign. I was almost giving up and started questioning again (the “other” came in me) and started to convince myself once more that I was making this situation up. And then, out of nowhere, a deer jumped around on the field, trying to look for food. It was scared off by the train, the scary sounds of it, and the deer quickly ran to the nearest bushes and trees.
But right before that moment when the deer ran, it looked right at the train, I almost felt like the deer was looking at me.
And my eyes filled with tears: I felt like the deer was saying: “I thought we agreed on the fact that You trusted us.” If I were a second too late, if I hadn’t turned my head to that image, I wouldn’t of seen the deer. But I did see it. If I hadn’t seen it, I probably would of convinced myself that I DID make it up. But I saw the deer.
Those were the tears of joy, I cried that time, and a couple of other times, I must admit. At that time, I was stuck behind a threshold, not yet too bold to step over it. I needed time to be convinced that this time it was a true thing.
Now – the rational mind can make up reasons like – it was a coincidence. It all was just a one time thing. It was just the nature playing a trick on You. Etc. etc….
But then, help me trying to figure out – can it be a coincidence if it has happened more than once… many many times more.
Much love to You, friends,
Liina L.
Signs can take any possible form. And Paulo – You say that Your signs are not neccecarily our signs. I agree – as persons we are different, so why shouldn’t the signs be different for all of us? We also get, notice, recieve and live by/with signs differently. This is as true as the sun shines.
But then You say – a sign is not something like when You read a book and then on the 34th page there is something and You think – Ooook, this is a sign? As You said – signs can be different for people. Maybe these type of signs are actually for someone?!
I understand that You advise us not to get crazy and paranoic trying to find the signs, desperately trying to grasp at anything that may seem as one, or just mix them with something else (tests for us, mixed signals, temptations etc. etc.). I think I can say that for a lot of Your readers reading something from Your book at some certain page, or the whole book of Yours could of been a sign of itself. Then why not a magazine? We have to leave it at what we know is, and what we know isn’t.
For me, picking up one of Your book, a certain book about Pilars self-searching, was a sign. A sign to start living. Jumping in the river of life. So, I believe, it can be on the page 34. ;)
As for the forms of signs: they indeed can be different. And the timing also. It is about, how others here have mentioned, about also getting in touch with them. Do we notice the signs. Do we see them at the right moment – do we coprehend.
I believe – the signs are everywhere. We just have to open our souls, minds and throught to the possibility of recieving them.
I have been a zombie for at least half of my life. I was passing life by with no great emotions, if only, then there have been deep depression – an unexplained one, until year 2003-2005 when things started to change. First – 2003 – I got into an university, and also I grew a new circle of friends around me, which of all I appreaciate very much. And 2005 in which I was honoured to “by an accident” reach a book in hands, written by Paulo, where he, as in all of his books, he advises to live Your life and forget the past. Concentrate on living NOW.
All that said – hopefully You can understand, when I propose You the next thesis. I did not know how to love and I did not know how to feel it either. At least not in the right way. Love at that point was an illusion, nowadays it’s a reality.
So – I did not know what was to feel the “right” love, the pure, unconditional, the all loving love (also Agape). As I studied in a different city from where I was brought up, I had to travel uncounted times. As I started to travel by train, I noticed something very odd. On certain times while looking out of the train window I saw forest animals. And that’s what I love to do – look out of the window while travelling by a moving object. Well, at one time I saw a moose, then a fox, then a rabbit, then I saw some eagle, and on many times I saw deers. In groups, in pairs…. etc. In other words – on certain times I saw at least one animal during the trip from one city to another (unless it was so damp and dark than it was totally unpossible to see with a human eye).
That mentioned, I have to take it further. I noticed, that it was not a coincidence. Every time, I saw those animals, I felt the all loving love in me – agape. And I started to notice, that it was not a coincidence after all. Every time I would feel agape in me, I would see the animal. I thought I was making it up – I started questionin it.
But then I understood the sign – after a life of not believing in love, not feeling it, nor understanding it fully, I needed a sign to believe in it, and to believe how it is to feel the “right” love, the agape.
Then I made a bet with the nature. Every time, I would feel this way (pure love, all loving love, agape)- that the spirits, or I don’t know how to call it, that the nature would send me an animal – my sign – to show that this is a true feeling. And that was my cue how to start loving, starting to TRUST that what I was feeling at that moment actually WAS love. And when it wasn’t then it must have been a reason, why…(why I did not see the animal, and also why it wasn’t a true feeling of LOVE).
This whole situation, that happened, made me seek into myself, maybe on levels that I wouldn’t of, normally. I know, it’s bad to make bets and contracts like that, but at this time I was lucky – the nature took my cry of help as a duty and showed me its colours.
I still do it. And it still works.
But this is just one sign… if we are open, the signs can occur in any ways, at any moment, in any forms possible – with anyone who is open and willing to see it. Also! Distinguishing the true from the false will take time – You have to trust Yourself and be true to the nature, world, and more important – to Yourself!
I’m sorry it took me a while to say these words.
This was the thing I once would of shared with Mr. Paulo. Maybe in a different form, presentation, but the meaning would of stayed the same. This was one of my signs.
Also: thank You all of You who have done this, stepped up, feeling enough courage, honesty, duty and love to share these experiences. And thanks for spreading the thoughts, openness, love. Each experience is unique – it’s how the world spins – we all spin with it, but on a different anckle!
Love from Estonia,
Liina L.
A most powerful concept- and out of reach of understanding. A concept that requires faith,that everything will be okay ,that the world no matter how deep it descends into cruelty will still be livable-that somehow honesty and sincerity will prevail.
As a victim of cruelty throughout my childhood-I instinctively sought refuge in church buildings, and in isolation communed with an invisible host, to rescue me. The power of the Church drew me in to forge my spirit to learn about freedom and practice honesty.In time I learned to believe in myself and my own value as a human. Now in retrospect I can see the trail of signs laid before me to ensure my survival.If only I had had the wisdom to recognise the events for what they were-perhaps the path would have been smoother. However the sign of the spirit -born of cruelty and emotional pain was the easiest to grasp and is with me today-a legacy that began as a simple act from one kind person and has grown into a faith that I have a human duty to show kindness.
Dear Jessica.The answer is in yourself.Everybody is different and so has different signs and a personnal history.Try to concentrate,meditate and clear your mind.How can we help each other more than what we do already by supporting you with words.You’re not alone but you need to do that big work on yourself on your own.We can pray for you and give you support but we cannot take decisions at your place.Hope you’ll be ok soon.
I have lived an amazing day today.
My best friends – and my brother with his girlfriend is the first one of them – had invited me to join them to a weekend in a remote place of the Alps (Passo del Mortirolo), but I had to work yesterday, and today I was supposed to clean my house, write some stuff for the Court and a couple of letters, do my laundry and so on.
Yet, last night I sunddely decided that this morning I was going to join them.
I woke up at 6.30, left at 7.30 am and met with a couple of guys on our way to the mountains, so we drove for more than 2 hours together. We reach the place, parked the car and then a guy from the lodge came to take us there on snowmobiles – almost 1 hour away.
It was great. We went through enchanting forests, and even if everything was still covered with more than 1 meter of snow, you could see that Spring is coming, so lively and vibrant.
We had a walk, then a very familiar luch with other 50 people or so (we were 13… my favourite number!), laughed a lot, told stories and enjoyed the beautiful day.
Than there was an inconvenient, for the main snowmobile got broken and could no longer take us down.
Some of us decided to walk down (a couple of hours hiking in the snow), but I could not do that because I was wearing “Moon Boot”, and you cannot wear the special equipment to walk in the snow unless you wear appropriate hiking shoes.
The two guys I drove there with and another guy with his family (wife and 2 kids) decided to wait for the snowmobile that had gone down to take other people to their car.
There was a man with his personal snowmobile that was about to ride down, so he asked me if I wanted to go with him, for he could only carry one person, and I was the only single one.
I went with him, and – boy – it was great!! We took different ways, that required us to be brave… jumping up and down, running like the wind in the snow. I was so excited, and had so much fun!! Of course, you cannot do anything like that when the snowmobile carries 3-4 people or so.
We arrived at the place where cars were; I thanked the guy, who went home to his girlfriend, changed my shoes and sat down in the car waiting for my friend.
But it was so beautiful all around me.
Tiny white and violet flowers were coming out from the snow, and pine trees spread their glorious scent in the air. All I could hear was the sound of a dozen creeks nearby, running down from the melting snow in small, icy waterfalls.
I got out from the car.
Sat down by a big tree, with “The Zahir” in my hands, and read the last chapter of it. I could “feel” it like I had never done before.
After one hour or so, I finished the book, and my heart was so full of joy and peace and wonder. I stood up and let all the beauty and the peace of the place spread into my soul.
I was happy.
And finally peaceful, after a few terrible days.
I decided to go up and meet my friends on their way back, and as soon as moved my first steps I saw them coming, smiling.
I smiled too.
Every thing was perfect.
Love,
Rossana Curri
p.s. check pics of this special day on facebook:
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hello mr coelho
this is mahdiyeh from iran , i really like your books , and your opinions and belives behind these books .
i think this is our life : searching !
does your new book published in iran too ?
i hope you the bests in your life
Growing up I heard the phrase, “Be sure to read the writing on the wall.” In my life, I find myself recognizing the signs in hindsight. A retrospect look at things tends to point out clear signs and manifestations of “Do this” or “Don’t do that” evidenced at different points, serving as a compass to redirect my path. But, sadly and with much regret, I must admit my failure to pay attention to “the handwriting on the wall.” This serves to remind me of something I share with others and serves as a cornerstone in my new book, A Questionable Life. “The biggest lie you can tell is a lie to yourself.” Signs are always there–it is up to us to be awake, aware and brave enough to see them for what they are–our own GPS navigator and the quiet voice in our heart.
In 1989 I received a sign to move to Taos, from NY, to take my family and move, for me to hear the “voice” of God I became blind and deaf for the moments the seconds that it would take for me to stop and listen. It took me two years after that to leave the big city and move to Taos, NM where each day I can see the sacred faces of the mountains.
I see signs from the stars, in the moon, from the sacred waters and from the animals.
All I have to do is be present.
H Paulo and all,
I had several miracles in my life, but never could read signs. However some invicible hand was always acting on my behalf and averting disasters and guiding my way. Although I could not read the signs, I am sure that my subconscious is guided by them. I am grateful to the invsible hand that guides my destiny.
I believe that we warriors need to keep a personal diary of signs and this will help in interpreting the signs on a long term basis. This is because our conscious memory is very need based and selective and seldom helps to capture the sublime.
Seek your thoughts
Love
Rejini
Dear Paulo,
i’d experience a lot of signs for example ur praying, hoping and wishing for something to happpen and u want to have signs before going to proceed to it.but then one thing i’ve learned and realized is when u tell it to somebody it wont happen. so for me its a like a sacred thing that God and you can only know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKBCMcRZq6w&feature=related
Cher Paulo,
J’espère que tt va bien pour toi, pour Cristina et pour tous les membres de ce site.
Finalement, j’ai réussit passer plus de temps ici, et ça me fais toujours énormément du bien de lire tes postes et les commentaires. J’apprendre beaucoup et je reste avec le sujet en tête pour réfléchir et suivant après, un moment dans la journée soit se passe quelque chose, soit j’ai un insight par apport les sujets. Je remercie énormément pour tout, à toi et à tous.
Depuis un moment difficile dans ma vie, finalement le ciel commence a s’éclaircit après la tempête, et je suis très heureuse pour cela. Aujourd’hui en réfléchissant a ça je me suis dit qui il me ferait du bien d’aller a la messe pour remercier a Dieu. Je suis allée et en écoutant le père dire combien Jésus était jugé pour tous et combien il a eu la patiente de rester en silence en supportant tout le type de jugement et traitement malsain de la parte de son prochain, je me suis mis a la place de Jésus car il est le Meilleur Exemple pour moi. Et je suis très heureuse de dire qui aussi comment Lui, moi aussi je suis en train de ressusciter. J’attendu longtemps pour ce moment, où je commence enfin pouvoir reprendre ma vie en mains. Et j’ai su toujours qui ma foi en Dieu n’était pas en vain, et qu’Il jamais allait me laisser tomber.
Je suis heureuse, et je voulais partager avec toi et tous, car le bonheur est contagieux, et toi, Cristina et tous ici sont aussi part de mon bonheur.
MARG,
Ca
P.S : Je suis en train de lire l’Alchimiste à nouveau, et ça me fais énormément du bien. :)
Finally, I managed to spend more time here, and I still do a lot of good to read your posts and comments. J’apprendrai lot and I stay with the subject header to reflect and next after, a moment in the day or something happens, I have insight or input by the subjects. I thank a lot for everything to you and all.
Since a difficult time in my life, the sky finally begins as’éclaircit after the storm, and I am very happy for that. Now considering it was I thought that I would be good to go to Mass to thank God. I went and listened to the father how Jesus was tried for all and how it took the patient to remain silent supporting any type of trial and treatment of the unhealthy part of the next, I put in place Jesus because he is the best example for me. And I am very pleased to say that how he, I too am trying to resurrect. J’attendu long for this moment when I finally able to resume my life. And I always knew that my faith in God was not in vain, and He would never let me down.
I am happy, and I wanted to share with you and all, because happiness is contagious, and you, Cristina and here are all part of my happiness.
MARG,
Ca
PS: I’m reading the Alchemist again, and I do enormously well. :)
signs are some form of encapsulated language..you have to decipher it correctly..we must be very careful to interpret them…I always wanted to be a psychologist
but every time i ask for a sign, (
usually my interpretation is wrong..
so that’s why I end up as an IT person..
I learn to love it…
signs are any universal messages we are open to. they are best for me when felt as opposed to seen, (although seeing a rainbow always gives me great joy and clarity!) messages come to me through the sun, through the wind, through the water, through the breath…and appear through a relaxed and surrendered state of consciousness. they always seem to remind me that i am part of something much bigger than my individual mind can conceive. and that awareness, oftentimes, serves to guide me outside myself into greater understanding of my next steps.
Signs are a guidepost that bridge our inner and outer experience. We must be open to receive signs, and we can ask for a sign to confirm our way. Signs can also happen as an inner message in a vision.
This morning after meditationmy soul whispered to me You are the living chalice, an embodiment of the Holy grail. You can Carry the
Nectar of God within your Chalice. You are the Eernal Light of God
which you can carry in that Chalice. See that Holy Grail Fill your entire being Like a Circular x. Be Open to receive and see he miracle of God’s love guidng you and direciting you with Love and Light
Blessings
Cidny paulos
In every moment of my life, awake and in dream state,I am aware of gifts of signs.It’s almost as though one could ask, when do we NOT experience signs in our lives?
A few examples:
A book with information, through word or image, that is needed for a project will be in the FREE box at used book store.
While washing clothes, I see the dryer and washing machine both showing the number 34 simultaneously.
My salad bar meal will cost exactly $1.80. several days in a row.
Leaving a building,feeling very tired and sad, I see a Hawaiian woman seated on a bench in profile as I hear Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole singing a heart felt song on the radio. I stopped to tell the woman that seeing her sitting there listening to Iz singing made me feel so happy again,that she looked like a painting of a beautiful ancient Hawaiian woman.
This morning on my walk, I stopped to inhale the fragrance of a Natal Plum blossom and was momentarily intoxicated with the “aromatherapy” of the scent.
Life is not always joyful but it is always interesting and filled with color,sound and touch in layers of dimension.
I love you Coelho!! Cannot wait to read your new book!
A sign is when you get a genius email from the Graeme paulo!!! :) (added by Mobile using Mippin)
Thank you Paul. Good to see you too. Your pilgrimage sounds wonderful.
Coloring my hair here. Got to go…
I was Hear Angels Sing
I would rather call them ‘coincidence’, ‘premonition’, ‘intuition’. It would take a day in order to give a detailed description of all the signs I have ever received. So, to put it in a nut shell here they are:
1. A myriad of coincidences brought me to meet my husband
2. Only once in my life I had something close to a vision that saved my life (wanting to cross a road and looking left I saw another crossroads and a blue car racing towards me; I thought I was too tired and when arriving to the road from my vision, I looked attentively at the left, at the right – nothing, the road was clear. I began to cross it when all of a sudden from an adiacent crossroads a blue car turned left and was racing towards me. I paralyzed with fear but not because of the car coming towards me, mostly because I realized that I had a vision, that I was warned. The fact that I stood still saved my life because the car swerved and passed by me from behind)
3. My dreams… Usually from my dreams I can tell if something is going to happen. Many times I dream the situations as they are going to happen in the least details. The dreams are my number one channel of receiving signs :)
4. My intuition… This I cannot explain. I simply ‘feel’ if somebody to whom I care is going to have a bad or good experience
I for one do not believe in signs of the type Mr Paulo Coelho described in the video (opening a magazine, reading a word and interpreting it as a sign). As he said, this is the right path towards paranoia. ‘Signs’ of this kind we can encounter thousands during a day. An example: while I was watching Mr Coelho’s video, my child was watching a cartoon about traffic signs. Should I interpret it as a sign? ;) :)))
Have a nice weekend Mr Coelho and you all!
Welcome, dear Heart, we have noticed your absence and missed your comments.
Yes dear Paul from Austria, there is a Greek [!!!] quote: Ιδού η Ρόδος, ιδού και το πήδημα = Here is Rodos, here is the leap.
LOVE,
Thelma
Alan, my heart is with you.
Love,
Rossana
In a catholic forum, I, using name “Christ” was claiming, that there is no evil in the world, only ignorance.
Another participant of the forum asked me why do I use name “Christ”. He said that I’m confusing people, by doing this, and I am contradicting the opinion of the catholic church, which is different. And overall, that I’m blaspheming.
The sign in this case is that todays evangelic reading is Jn 10, 31–42, in which, it says:
jews took rocks into their hands and answered: “We will kill you not for good works, but for false words: that you claim to be God, while being a man”.
Jesus replied: Is it not written in your book of laws: “You are Gods !” ? Because your law calls gods everyone who receives the God’s Word.
So this sign is telling me that I’m God ! ;>
For me the signs are in the numbers.
It began on 8th march 1987 when the one I loved most in the world was taken and I was bereft. That night I dreamed that he came to me and he gave me a card. When opened this card took the shape of an 8 pointed star. In it were written in his hand a flowing sentence which I have never yet been able to make out.
For a long while I puzzled over the meaning of the eight pointed star, and after eight months I found a description of it stating that it was a symbol of resurrection.
By ‘chance’ exactly eight years after his death I found myself reunited with our friends and I realised that the resurrection referred to was my own. That it was my choice and my responsibilty to step forward and remake my life.
Since then the numbers have guided me. When 8 or 4 or 17 (1+7=8)appears in something personal to me or my family, in phone numbers, dates, wherever, I know that means my life is on the right track and all is well.
Greetings Mr Paulo and friends!
Long time no see everybody.
Watching your video clip about Signs made me wonder why you appear so tired? How are you doing?
When I pray… it is my words to God. When we read the Holy Scripture, or other Signs… it is God’s words to us.
Take care of yourself Mr Paolo and friends!!
Heart
Hi Paulo and Everyone,
Signs….Yes there are many of those right now. Jessica said to me in a private email that we need each other and she is right. We all do. I feel her urgency. Right now many of us are going through something deep and challenging.
I am a little tired. I have just gotten back from one of those weeks. Late on Tuesday night I got a call from the hospital. My father had had another Myocardial Infarction, they said please get there quickly, he is going.
My mother and I got there a little too late. Yet there he was, still warm and at last, at peace.
I had sat there with him just a few hours earlier as he flitted in and out of consciousness. We were never tactile. Yet there I was holding his hand and touching his forehead, giving to him as much love and compassion as I could muster as he reviewed his life.
I saw his struggle and I gave him my blessing. I am no priest. It was enough though.
I told him that my sister was on the plane from Hawaii and if he could; please hold on. She would be just one more day.
Funny, it took me nearly forty five years to finally touch his soul. And there I was re-assuring him for his last journey. I was there with him and I gave him all my warmth for his final dance upon this world.
The sign is that there can never be enough love and compassion in this world.
And one single drop of it echoes out and, into infinity.
Namaste,
Alan
dreaming and then re living the moment in real life is a sure sign.
Dear Candie,
I think he was saying me: “Goodbye !” , or maybe: “Cheerio !”
Thank you !
Love
Luce
Dear Paul,
As if you have been reading my mind, I was asking myself that question in the private of my mind and now you put it in words, all at once it became real. Pain is still within me but somehow it is easier ….
Thank you, thank you Paul and may Santiago Road fill you with joy, love and happiness.
Love
Luce
give it to me again please?
no logro entender nada de lo que esta escrito peroentarre mas seguido para averiguarlo :D
these are too many commentes so you can’t spend many time on one comment.
sings are always around me. someday i automaticly go to a book store, but i didn’t want to buy a book, and i see one of your books: The valkyries.
I buy that book cause i see a sign that i’m in the way of my miracle.
what i have to do to make you believe this worth an email?
i’m not saying this comment is special. i say your feeling about this words is special.
please don’t let repeat the memory of that guy.
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