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…music to combat depression, good for your soul.
Pythagoras(my latest discovery) had used “music to help those who were ill.”
For Belinda,
Sacrifice is in itself a gift that awaits reception, not a return, and is in the heart of the one giving it. Anything else would be like giving a gift without taking your hands off of it.
For Carina,
Thank you for your words…they helped. : )
For Lynette,
You are not alone. I am experiencing and feeling the same. It matters to me as well.
I just want to say that I am coming in contact recently, with alot of people who are hell bent on control, intimidation and bullying to get what they want in this life, whether it be in business or their personal lives.
I see this economic crisis filling our souls not with peace and love for each other, but with a black void that is hard to fill. Who are you to take it out on me I say?
Am I leaving myself open to this I wonder? I am having trouble ‘with other peoples hurt and anger’ which leaves me feeling naked, vulnerable and wondering where I have a best fit in this world.
Is anyone feeling the same??? I wish I could shrug this off like it does not matter! but it does!
I just want to be a free spirit, happy and loved.
I would like to introduce you to Kevin Pearce, one of my new favorite singer, please listen: http://tinyurl.com/r2g28p
hi , i just wanna said that your books are wonderful to me , i feel like a travel with them, i’m peruvian , i began to read by your books thank you , paulo coelho
Hola Paulo:
He leido tu columna semanal en la que nos compartes una semana tipica o casi tipica de tu vida, descubri que eres un tanto impulsivo igual que yo, te irritas facilmente…aunque no soy virgo…jajajajaa… pero es agradable encontrar caracteristicas terrenales en alguien que creemos casi etéreo por la admiración a tu trabajo… quisiera que escribieras sobre qué haces para conectarte con tu alma, con tu yo interno, con tu lado divino?… qué haces luego de una época dificil, triste o conflictiva?? que es lo que mas disfrutas además de escribir?… yo por ejemplo medito, no de forma convencional, converso conmigo misma durante el transcurso de mi viaje a mi trabajo (sin manejar)… en fin… cuéntame qué te devuelve la alegría!…
Un abrazo enorme desde Nicaragua, sería un sueño hecho realidad tenerte en esta tierra de lagos y volcanes y de muchos seguidores tuyos, entre los cuales me cuento como la numero 1… no hay nada tuyo que no haya leído!!!!… debo decirte que mis favoritos son: A orillas del río piedra… y Las Valquiras!…
Hasta luego!
Thank you so much my friends Alexandra and Pandora!
Congratulations Heart*
Hope your day was nice
I want to share Paulos
prayer – for you all:
“May love guide you in
every moment of life”
I wonder Heart, if we are very much alike since we are both Taurusses?
It says that a taurus is very homely. But I am not at all. Are you? A lot of the other stuff thats said about taurusses is correct for me, like really enjoying food and drinks and the good stuff of life. And the part that it is really hard to piss off a taurus, but once he/she is… better hide yourself! Is that the same for you?
Love
In my profession as a psychiatric nurse, I meet more or less every day depression or should I say – melancholia. When we read the newspapers and watch television we get the impression that depression is a “modern” disease.
Goethe wrote a story about “The Sorrows of Young Werther” in 1774 and the sensitive and passionate tone in the story drove many young men into death ( so the story tells…). Unfortunately I haven´t read the whole book, yet, but my thought today is that what I´m trying to tell my depressed clients is this;
It´s not your fault that you are depressed. It´s not your fault that you cannot live up to all expectations you and the world around you put on yourself. What´s happening today in the world is not actually something new; all great changes – bad and good – in time lead to reactions among people. This time we are living in today is a time of great change; technology, environment, globalism etc etc. When the train was taken in use for over 100 years ago, people felt fear and anxiety over the speed and the noice. The telephone, the electricity, the car and so on made people tired in their minds and the psychiatric diagnose “neurastenia” became very popular. Today we call it “burnout” and “depression”. Don´t blame yoursleves and don´t think it´s your fault. The modern technology is draining us, our brains are burning BUT it´s an overgoing phenomena.
It´s very important to see things in a wider perspective in order to minimize our own sorrows – even if it´s hard or almost impossible sometimes.
Thank you so much for this post Carina. I have been in a swamp of depression and anxiety and existential angst for the past year and I keep feeling like such a waste, all I want to do is live and enjoy things but all the problems of the world and my own tiny ones seem to weigh me down and make me feel empty and hopeless. I am going to take paulo’s advice and be like the river that has to sit quietly in a hollow for a while before it can fill it and flow happily again. I also love Goethe, he has many wonderful quotes.
“We are forever settling in only to depart again, and if we do not do it to suit our own whims and wishes, then circumstances, passions, accidents, necessity, and whatever else will force it anyways” Goethe
Ayer quise dejar un comentario aquí pero no pude porque la red no funcionaba bien.
Tq Paulo.
Happy birthday Heart!
Une quarantaine de questions essentielles permettent ainsi de découvrir ce qui nous sépare et ce qui nous lie. Ces portraits de l’humanité d’aujourd’hui, sont accessibles sur le site
En 2003, après La Terre vue du ciel,
Yann Arthus-Bertrand a lancé avec Sibylle d’Orgeval et Baptiste Rouget-Luchaire le projet “6 milliards d’Autres”. 5.000 interviews ont été filmées dans 75 pays par 6 réalisateurs partis à la rencontre des Autres.
Du pêcheur brésilien à la boutiquière chinoise, de l’artiste allemande à l’agriculteur afghan, tous ont répondu aux mêmes questions sur leurs peurs, leurs rêves, leurs épreuves, leurs espoirs :
Qu’avez-vous appris de vos parents ?
Que souhaitez-vous transmettre à vos enfants ?
Quelles épreuves avez-vous traversées ?
Que représente pour vous l’amour ?…
I have been thinking a lot lately about sacrifice, and how sacrifice can lead to complicated emotions that are never really pure. That all sacrifice has at its core the need for that sacrifice to be acknowledge and reified by those for who the sacrifice is made. In the end, the act of sacrifice requires the person for whom the sacrifice is made to give of themselves to the person who sacrifices. It is never an individual act, but an act of inter subjective exchange. Okay, any thoughts on this?
Heart… oh Heart… Don’t break my Heart!!
:) It’s your birthday? Wow…. I wish you lots of love!
<3
Thelma!
Giggles. Thank you very much. My day has started wonderfully, and it will continue I’m sure.
Due to a routine medical exam at 10 am I have to fast 12 hours ahead, and cannot have my morning coffee. Not to get withdrawals, I had a big mug of coffee at 10 pm last night, instead. I was wondering if it would ruin my sleep, but it did not. I slept like a baby. It is so funny everything they say about coffee. A doctor once asked me how much coffee I drink, insinuating I was doing a crime! (In my mind I was thinking… may be if the doctor drank coffee too, he wouldn’t be as obese as he is!). So, anyway the fitness test today will last 2, 3 hours…and then I look forward to having my morning coffee soon thereafter :)
Thanks again Thelma, for your surprise birthday wish!
You are such a sweetheart,
Heart
To the moderator
Can you please withdraw the song “Anyone who had a heart”
I am not sure this is appropriate and I dont’ want it to be taken the wront way, it is certainly not my intention.
Thank you so much.
“Internet governance must ensure freedom of expression and universal access, Unesco says”
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27868&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Happy Birthday Heart!
Have you ever considered turning the Alchemist into a movie??
Happy birthday Heart! Here is to you:
“Anyone who had a heart”
– Burt Bacharach and Wynonna -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOWIvQ0W4-U
Sorry, I misspell. Dear Heart.
Dearest Hear, happy birthday to you! Wish you only the best things, joy and happiness.Have much fun, dear. Love, Alexandra
Yesterday I was asked by a friend to help her deal with negative spiritual attacks. I agreed but realize it will be a great challenge and quite the journey. But if it will help her, then I will do whatever I can!
Today it is Heart’s birthday!!
Happy birthday, dear friend and have a wonderful day.
LOVE,
Thelma.
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