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Hello Paulo, thank you for being a generous host. Hello you other kind human beings,
Today it is the space of daring. Daring to think outside loud, say somebody that you love her/him, say the unbearable truth, ask for help.
It is about risking versus carefully planning…
I have written a post on my blog about it http://inspiredachievement.ro/coach/to-get-out-to-light-you-need-to-step-throuth-the-cave-of-unknown-first/ and I am requesting you to help me break the record of 1000 hits per post.
click on it, leave your comments and let’s make it together a piece of cake…
Namaste y’all
Ioan
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Paulo, your inspiration has been instrumental in me being “a warrior of the light.” To live in truth with honesty is my goal today. Can I stand in that light and not shrink away in fear with what I might and will find? I congratulate you on continuing on your path and helping me be a courageous warrior that accepts life and then deals with what is. It has been a challenge yet I find encouragement in your words and wisdom. Keep being. Forward, Keith.
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You tube video on the” world problems of unsafe water crisis”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_R_vpNQ0fjc
Some interesting videos from Scientific American
China combats drug resistant TB
Gold fever in California
China’s Autistic children
Scientists develop dream recorder - “A Japanese science lab in Kyoto is developing technologies to visualise images and dreams and eventually read people’s minds.”
http://www.sciam.com/video.cfm?id=18233315001&sc=CAT_INNO_20090403
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Robert ,I loved your lines.Pretty interesting.My best wishes to you
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During Loss, Don’t Lose Spirituality!
Know that despite your circumstances, you can be a tree in the bayou rising out of water, transforming and reestablishing yourself because as you grow you continue to see the expansiveness of the spirit. While you grow towards the light and allow others to reach heights, alligators swim at your feet but are limited because their growth depends on predatory behavior. Consider them with a dispassionate view when they do what they do because just the other day, I saw a simple woman eating alligator. Its albino heart she tossed back into the bayou and it settled near the roots of the cypress.
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Paulho Coelho. Gracias por inspirarme cada dìa màs, y regalarme esos maravilloso libros que solo usted sabe perfectamente como escribirlos. Tengo 16 años, pero eso no me impide a que admiro su lectura.
Gracias a “Veronica dedide morir”, pensè mucha vecès antes de cometer un suicidio planeado.
Te adoro con todo mi corazòn.
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Dear Jessica,wish you be happy with yourself.I dont know your whole situation.But I remember the pains of Jeanne Darc.Nobody believed her,not even her family,and she was burnt alive .At least we are not burnt alive today,as in past.I had no visions ever,cannot say how I would react.Cannot judge,and nor I want to do such.
Still,in an evening I saw that in one African state they still burn alive people whom they suspect of witchcraft.God help us.
Wish everybody a wonderful day,never to forget we are never alone,God is always with us
Love
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Thank you Dear Paul and Leaf :-)
That there are people like you on this planet, I´m very thankful for that :-D
You give me hope, faith and courtage to move on to my true path.
How hard it seems when you know people around you dislike your path.
But I HAVE TO follow it anyway, there is no turning around from now.
I´m moving ..step by step.
Love and courage
Jessica
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Dear Jessica
my heart is with you
i know what it is like to be detained in hospital
where it seems that no-one understands
- I am so glad you will be out of there soon
back to your freedom
- best wishes
Libh x
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The answers to your question are to be found within dear Jessica… you have not won freedom… you are free… and you always were… read the Alchemist again… and again if necessary… you’ll find more new Gems every time… and never ever give up fighting for “your” dream… ♡ PFA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCRZLr9oRw
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Hi Paulo.. thanks alot for giving us this space to share our thoughts with you and with the rest of the world..
I named my last post ” IYM Ultimatum ” and it read:
” For some reason which is beyond my limited human mental comprehension I feel like I’m living one of Bourne Ultimatum’s episodes ! Something somehow somewhere triggered my roller-coaster and so here I am riding high waves of my unpredictable life one more time ! However, this very ride of mine is very different compared to my previous trivial ones which at some point, when they were very active, seemed massive and non-defeatable to me. This new wave-ride, and I will not call it massive or non-defeatable this time, is very unique and interesting in fact; and above all very enjoyable.. yes very enjoyable and yes for the very first time in my life I welcome my new challenges with joy and big smile unlike my anxious previous welcomes !
Bourne Ultimatum.. IYM Ultimatum.. Life Ultimatum.. and here we go again..
How did I get into this new path of mine is the least of my concern.. mechanistically this belongs to life and to the good guy up there.. I stopped questioning ‘ How ‘ long time ago and I started focusing on ‘ OK, I’m in for it ‘ with a very relaxed and welcoming attitude.. ”
To read the rest please visit: http://majlisIYM.blogspot.com/
Enjoy your evening Paulo..
IYM
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PaulaMyka
your comment gave me inspiration for I have recently found out I will soon be out of work and I am having a hard time dealing with it
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For women, knowing which signs are true comes from deep in our bellies. There is a powerful energy surge, clear and true (doesn’t hold any particular emotion) that tells us this! This is the course we can take and trust. This ‘knowing’ is also fed by pure love, love of self in particular but also love of everyone else involved.
I’ve been working with ’signs’ all my life really, without ever realising that’s how i did life up until 20 years ago. Reading the Alchemist at that time also showed me what it was i was doing, thank you for putting it into words…
My most recent, life changing experience, of reading, trusting and acting on the signs came just 5 months ago. I was recovering from a badly broken leg which literally stopped me dead in my tracks and was looking at a ‘change’ in career.
I wanted to create a situation that would give me the freedom to continue with my Spiritual Life Coaching and boost my income, I also wanted to work close to home.
I put my CV on Link Me and started getting calls from Nursing Agencies because 30 years ago i was a Registered Nurse. I retired from Nursing because there were so many other experiences to explore in life yet I felt this profound, clear shot of energy surge through my whole being at the thought of returning to nursing, which I’d never considered previously.
It turned out that I couldn’t re-register because I’d been out too long so I chose to do my Cert III in Aged Care and it all snow-balled from there: Workskil paid for the cost of the course; TAFE gave me RPL for the entire course because of my previous skills and experience; I emailed a local Residential Care Facility which just happens to have a ’spiritual’ flavour and the Manager instantly recognised the value in employing me and gave me a job straight away! (I’d been looking for work for six months and only got 1 interview before this.)
So how do we know which signs to follow?
The right path always unfolds without effort when we are in sync, always!
Sometimes we make choices that lead us away from the right one for a while and that’s how i broke my leg, and that was the most profound spiritual journey i’ve experienced out of all spiritual journeying in my lifetime to date.
The new energy that we are being given to work with is YIN. Yin is about total surrender to the unknown, meaning we don’t need to know how, when, where or why, we just get clear with our co-creation and trust the Universe to create the rest.
Love and best wishes to you all, Gaia, Adelaide, Australia
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There’s an old saying
Missing
sleeping on him, alongside him, waking beside him, seeing his curls
feeling safe in the comfort of coupledom
The sound of a bouncing dog on the hard wooden floor, laughing at his twisted jumping around a bowl of food being delivered, seeing his understanding of the world develop, him knowing when he is naughty but still doing it
Waking with a normal heart, not empty or heavy
Family walking in the sunshine and darkness
The endless possibilities
‘That look’, the look that took my breath now given to another
The yard, the hands, the ring.
The sound of his return
That light falling in the room across the crystals
My chosen home and neighborhood, the egg lady and banana man
Not feeling tired
I wipe my sleeve across the pages of last week, across the water and across the thought of her face. Shallow heart breathing
Sensory lurching from emptiness to a sorrow to a calm acute awareness throughout different times of the day. I know which times to avoid, to occupy with other things.
And I thought it was all under control until a screaming puppy cried and cried like a hawk for the
translation
loss of its mother and the boy who had bought it didn’t understand why it cried and what it needed and my heart just burst and I lost focus. It reminded me too much of a puppy I once had who cried in the night. I wonder when these triggers will stop.
I slip backwards. Two steps forward, one step back.
It hurt, that hurt, I hurt, you hurt, it’s still hurting - me.
Temporarily Blocking it out with more working hours, being privy to the heartfelt stories from students, and my own scattered words written on pieces of paper.
Last week,
I fell asleep on a sofa, in front of a table, by a window in the old lanes and an unknown woman covered me with a blanket.
I also began to find myself again, the old self reawakened by loss.
And, sitting in the full sunshine smiling, watching the brides littering the lanes for photographs for their hopeful albums, a friend quietly sat beside me, listened to the silence and understood.
Borrowing snatched glances of things of beauty wrapped in borrowed time, bowls, flowers, fish, paintings - but they are not mine.
The only things I gather for myself now are a new found knowledge, new found time and new found plans.
A man asked me why my dog was longer with me, on telling him, he laughed and I laughed too whilst taking note of his waist length hair and slow walk.
But today I don’t find it funny.
He has a new partner, new chosen life when I still feel unsure because it was thrust upon me without care or consideration. My soundness ripped apart by his need to be desired and wanted. He should have told me honestly.
not without hope
we are defined by our opportunities - which I’ve always made and will continue to make. I just need to speak to my daughter first because it is now 11 days since we were cut off.
On the way out of work at 3.30pm this afternoon, I bumped into my friend, the barber, I have not seen him for just over 2 weeks because I no longer walk the dogs and to see him would make me sad. He asked me why I no longer walk by his house. I told him, in perfect mandarin, because I have learned this ‘My boyfriend and I have split up, He no longer loves me but loves another. She is his 18 year old student.’ He came to lunch with me but ate nothing and I ate very little. We talked. He understood enough of my bad mandarin to understand the situation, and I understood a little from him, the rest he wrote down - here it is:
There’s an old saying in China and Buddhists say it too.
You should never harm anybody but you need to be cautious with all of them.
Everyone will reap what he has sewn. Sometimes, it is that things don’t go like this. It’s just because the time hasn’t arrived yet.
Falling down is not terrible. The terrible thing is that you don’t stand up in time.
You should stand up and brush off the dust and go on walking proudly as you used to do.
he also told me to let it go.
http://www.travelblog.org/bloggers/traceyandchris
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Robert L, your comment gave me inspiration and some peace. Thanks for sharing your Eagle wisdom on Paulo’s blog.
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right now i am listening to 12 year old finger style guitarist from Korea named Sunga Jung-
I am listening to song The boxer
-contemplating on the music ..i realize that i made a lot of mistakes that hurt me and those people that I love
-i was terminated twice from my work with the same offenses
at that point i was thinking that i could never find a job again
but i stumble on to this music
I had my hopes up
and I have a job again
-I am rebuilding my life now
-hoping to learn from those mistakes
- I am always living for the moment
i hope i could keep up this time
-the fighter never dies in my soul
-the fighter still remains
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Another song which mean a lot to me right now.
About love … ofcourse ;-)
Not like the other girls - the Rasmus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq7P412D46I
Love Jessica
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How I feel today …sorry …it´s not my meaning to bring you down, but I have to open my heart and speak my truth.
I´m forbidden to talk about my vision at home and at the hospital:-(
What can I do …run away from it all.
I wish that today !!!
And in the same time I sat alone outside in the springsun, and enjoyed the moment.
I still have faith, but it seems out of reach right now.
So I do what I can do and rest a bit.
Heavy on my heart - Anastacia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DdSVT2qOo0
Love Jessica
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The function of the human brain.
This video has gone all around the world. Neuro scientist Jill Bolte Taylor studying her own brain. “A stroke of insight”. A must watch.
It is in English with subtitles in French.
La conference de la neuro-anatomiste Jill Bolte Taylor traduite en francais a fait le tour du monde. A regarder.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8agq2_jill-bolte-taylor-soustitre.fr
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“Spending time with old folks teaches you how to appreciate life more. Maybe because they know they do not have much time in this world. So even if they have certain limitations, they still know how to have fun. Good, clean fun. They’ve been there and done that. They would encourage you try things out for yourself but warn you and even let you see the consequences. Experience is really the best teacher, but sometimes, other people’s experiences could be the best teachers too.” - 14 March 2009
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Hi to all, especially to Paulo. I am posting the second of two blog posts today from my blog site on Jungian Psychology mixed with photography:
http://retiredeagle.wordpress.com/
Continuing on with my earlier post, I have to admit that there are still tan lines. I didn’t dare as much as I could have in order to cook completely in this alchemical stew. The fire of the sun was hidden from aspects of my psyche, stuff that I still bury deep within. Without the sun’s transformational heat which draws out the pale ghosts, I am left incomplete. Parts of my self are not yet turned into gold, an act of transubstatiation. I cling to the raw unfinished material as though to a life raft.
Why do I not yet dare to stand fully exposed to the transformational fires? Fear. Fear that what I have will be lost, fear that relationship with self and other will be forever changed. Is this bad? Not really, but it is about loss, and I don’t know if I am ready to lose the old in order to embrace the new. Change and loss.
Yet, out of the ashes of the burning a new way of being will emerge, new ways of relation will emerge. I worry that perhaps this alchemical process will reduce my self so much that there remains only ash. I worry that I will only be left with loss and be alone, removed from sanity, self and other. Yet, I know this isn’t true at the deepest level of my being. Will I be the coward and step off this path of individuation and say “enough is enough” returning to the patterns of habit and relationship that have been the fruit of all efforts so far in this journey? Can I stop even if I want to? Or, have the losses and gains already taken place and are only waiting to be acted out in the outer world? As Rainer Marie Rilke once said in his “Letters To A Young Poet”:
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
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I had a sign today getting onto the bus. An old lady was trying to step up and her legs couldnt manage and she fell back into my arms that hooked under hers. I hoisted her up and helped her into her seat. She was a heavy lady and She was breathing fast and looked worried. A sign! Keep fit, eat right and I will be stepping with ease into buses at 80 years of wise age!
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Today I´m home and appreciate FREEDOM :-)
I also took a stroll around a lake today and sat down and just listned to the birds singing and enjoyed the sunny weather.
I have to go back to the hospital on sunday because they need to decide if I can go back living at home after my so called “phychosis.
I was a fool searching for help when I had panic and didn´t sleep for three days after the friendrequest from the Slayer Al Saffah.
And maybe I overreacted because of traumas I have been in before in my life.
How should I know??
I had never before had this kind of friendrequests before.
I told them at the hospital about this and the visions I had.
That I shouldn´t have done, but I have already done that.
I have to be careful about who I tell this visions to,
I have realized.
I cannot go around and be afraid all the time.
I want to live life to the fullest.
I have to find my allies as you told us Paulo.
People with a open mind and curious about life.
I hope I can see you another time Paulo, if God want this, it will happen ;-)
Have a wonderful evening
Warm hugs from Jessica
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An exerpt from my post: Obama: The World’s Coach
As coaches we have all at one point or another, found it challenging to explain what it is that we do to people who do not know about coaching. Some, who know Tony Robbins, the famous self-help writer and motivational speaker, think coaching is about motivating others. Some, who are familiar with psychology, think that we are therapists. Some, in the business world, think of corporate coaches as business consultants, and some who work with life coaches on a deep, personal level think of us as ministers. I was so excited to hear and watch both President and Mrs. Obama in Europe during the G20 Summit. When the president was addressing a question in Strasbourg, France, he was part Tony Robbins, part Mahatma Gandhi, part Mother Theresa and part Clark Gable in “Gone With The Wind”.
From: http://evolutioninconsciousness.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-worlds-coach.html
Thanks,
Sherry
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Sometimes it is only at the end of a story that you know precisely where and when it begins and how far back you have to go.
Thinking about my own life ’story’, I do not have this advantage of hindsight and am not sure I will ever truly understand how all the pieces fit together. If I have discovered one thing in my life, it is that true existence rarely fits into neat stories, where all loose ends and tied and mysteries are resolved. When life comes into the world, it is like a piece of glass breaking into thousands of tiny shafts, each one reflecting something of their original form and containing some small remembrance of unified meaning.
I used to claim to have a clearer picture of who I was and greater confidence of the person that I was born to be. As I grow more aware of the sand of life rushing through life’s eternal timer, however, the picture begins to cloud and the pieces don’t fit as well as they used to. I am left only with fleeting moments of insight, rushing away from my mind as quickly as they came.
And that is why I now consider mine as a story of unusual ordinariness. I used to live the dream that I was going to make a difference to the world. I used to believe that I was unique and that my life would unfold in a never-ending series of successful decisions and predestined choices. I viewed those around me with pity and contempt. They did not have my God’s-eye view upon reality, my talent, or my vision of a successful future. I knew how to get to the end of the rainbow and there would find my treasure. Only now I realise that the rainbow was not what I had imagined and that I was living a dream that was not my own.
As a new millennium came, I realized that I was not going to become one of the lucky few still remembered in the next. I was not hand-picked for stardom, deemed by chance to enter the spotlight of history, or gifted with unusual talent or creativity. I realised that I was but an ordinary man who would live and love and suffer and die, having but a short time to make his mark upon an ever shrinking collection of people around him.
What surprises me, though, is that, somewhere deep inside, I am happier this way. The pressure is off. There is nothing to lose. Even the mistakes I have made along the way somehow make less difference when you don’t have the weight of history-making bearing down upon your shoulders. My life feels more my own and I am no longer the possession of powerful women and men who are charged with the sombre task of history-making.
And so I continue to tell my ordinary tale, with not even half an eye on it entering into the public domain to be commented on and criticized on issues of content, structure and style. It is a story dedicated to those who have yet to begin their journey, with the sole purpose of assisting them in their own attempts to pieces together those shafts of broken light and catching a glimpse of the light that is refracted by their unique past.
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Neste blog deixo de ser “eu” para ser “nós”… leiam não custa nada!
Cumprimentos a todos!
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This week, I have been to end and back, very quickly
New sounds, new smells, new thoughts, old suppressed tastes surfacing when I don’t want them.
bile in my thoughts
5am, the ceaseless rain woke me. My first thought is of him / them / loss / hurt. Instantly, I feel the void - the inevitable gap. It does not stop me breathing.
I breath around the void whereas he has a void around his breathing.
holding onto myself.
not knowing that this time would come in such a way.
Repayment not in kind.
him, safe in his woven dreams.
He changed the locks to keep me out of something we built, created, owned.
Shutting me out for weeks before seducing a new future whilst I floundered alongside asking questions but being fed crocodile lies. Moving with invisible tatters and rags coping with new found truths, picking my way over lose stones.
I saw through his veneer, helped polish it, promoted it to be real when I always knew it was not. I knew his journey - understood before he did.
Erased memories jostle with flooding images, lies, laughter and knowledge of current schedules I no longer belong to and a dog I miss.
“You dragged the lies out of me.”
Liar (perpetual)…
Settling into my new skin, the last week’s tears drying under my nails.
Yearning to sleep as I once did but living with the heavy rain.
I scan the words to see my movement. Forward movement through each phase dented but undamaged
And then, last night, after custody-dog-day, I return the dog to find her playing house in my apartment and the final phase is endured. Acceptance.
As I walk to work, I find my heart once again back in China. I see it lying on the pavement, held together with stitches, threads, barbed wire and old lies sticking out like dirty paper. I pick it up, hold it, see the wounds already healing then I push it back deep down inside to protect it. Ready for the next time.
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I try to learn from signs,but am not fanatical about them,when a sign appears i try to understand it.It is a feeling that comes with the sign that makes me stop and think about it. I dont label anything,and say ,this is going to happen,or that is going to happen,i take faith in what IS happening. xxxxxxxxxxxx
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http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=30938768624&ref=ts
the grandmothers speak - a call to empowerment:
holding the net of light during times on earth of changes and upheaval…
I always thought that my freedom of expression and creativity was being crushed by my elders; yet maybe it was this net of light, like a secure anchor…
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paulo coelho is really inspirative, i’d like to say thank to him
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this is my blog, u may read something there
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