A personal legend is the path we decide to take that fills our heart with enthusiasm. It is the path of our dreams.
Last week this idea was given and so I would like for you to share your Personal Legend with us.
Love,
Paulo
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Paulo Coelho, minha admiracao por vc creceu 1000% neste ultimo mes.
Moro no Canada a 2 anos e estou no grade 11 do high school, nos ultimos 15 dias estamos estudando o livro The Achemist. Minha professora se empolga fazendo a interpretacao de cada detalhe do livro. Ela veio da Albania onde ja conheceu seu livro anos atras. Naon preciso dizer como me sinto. Seu livro pra mim se tornou a quarta forma usada por Deus pra falar com a gente. Ficaria imensamente orgulhosa de obter alguma resposta sua pra exibir na minha sala para os meus amigos. Por favor, em ENGLISH. Com minha admiracao. Dagmar
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I enjoyed reading the comments above, for I feel that I can identify a little with each one. I’ve reached a fork in the road of my Personal Legend. I was always a very passionate person growing up and it seemed like nothing could stop me from achieving what I wanted. Now, at 25, I feel lost. I achieved all I had imagined, but I wasn’t imagining high enough. I am caught between following a different road, or staying on a path I’m not as passionate about anymore. Either way, I am not in the best position to make just any decision, for financial reasons. I’ve moved all over the country in the last 2 years searching for opportunity and inspiration, and I cant seem to find it. Don’t get me wrong, I have done enormous amounts of soul searching and learned many lessons I was 2 busy and ignorant to learn before, but now I cant get past the energy I am consuming THINKING about what the next move is I should make. I just don’t know what to do.
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Oh my dear Anna, thank you for your kind words..As soon as i upload my songs on the internet i ll let you know ..
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Annie: that's just great… Music is also a hugee part of me, but in a different way. I would love to listen to your music.
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….. speaking of arrogance, pffff, as if i were anywhere close to ruling my own life. Obviously i can't even read very well for my comment on you is not discussing matters but merely putting down a statement pretending to know it all.
So i'll just do what people in conversation should do, i'll ask questions instead of closing the gate with a statement.
Suppose all it takes to invent ones own personal legend is to create it - right here and now. By showing who you are, perhaps by talking about something small, something quite unsignificant in the greater order of things that despite it's unimportance got stuck in your mind, something you reacted to in a way that made you smile at yourself, that made you feel good and in charge? Maybe thats all it takes…? What do you think?
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Dear Anthony, when i was in my twenties i also wasn't anything legendary, not even quite memorable i suppose. People i know from back then, - well, - i don't know them anymore, don't even recognize their faces. The only way out is to make up your own legend. Take charge of your life, be king of your kingdom. And watch out not to follow the rules but to invent yourself as the One. First people will thing you are arrogant, if that does not make you small they will call you individual and treat you as a raw egg, if you find then find your own voice and your own goals you are good and well on your way to become a legend. kisses
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Anthony,
It is good that you don't know and please don't get frustrated… Here is one story for you,
Once there was mother and her baby, somewhere in Africa. Mother was hopeless she didn't had anything to feed her baby. She was working very hard to earn bread for the baby. One night she didn't had bread and she went to brothel where she was molested by few man just to earn money to feed her baby, she came back home with bread and gave it to her baby. But with the difficult situation, she was not getting any job or any money for couple of weeks. One night her baby asked, “Mother I am feeling hungry, can you provide me some food?” She said, “Just wait baby”. She went in the Kitchen took out knife and cut her wrist, pour some blood and gave her to drink. Baby was very small to know if that was blood or some red juice. For more than couple of months she feed her baby like that…, After four months, Mother died and also the baby.
The moral of the story: Interpret yourself.
There are hundreds and thousands of depressed soul living on this planet. We are among the fortunate ones, those who have normal day to day life, we can access internet and we can eat in normal way. The problem is not in finding what you are going to do in future, the problem is knowing what you will do today.
God blesses you !
and
God bless you all !
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Well i was no different and am no different than you i guess.Ya it will hit you like lightening eventually , like it hit me one fine day out of nowhere,seriously and honestly.I think it wont come eventually until you get hit hehe.But one thing i had to do to be hit by the lightening was run on the ground prone to lightening when it was raining,when there was big thunderstorm,and running crazy wild in the wild field where you can be easily hit my the lightening,is the most important thing to do.Well if you stay inside your house lightening might hit your roof but not you.Hmm sometimes we should also try to kill our frustration,with our own hand,by giving lightening a chance.
By the way,even though i know my personal legend i do get frustrated like before and it should not be excuse for not knowing.I would rather get frustrated trying to run toward my personal legend or atleast trying to find and die trying than not knowing and dying out of frustration.And eventhough i am gifted and i know what my personal legend should be i still don't have concrete idea what it is like until i get there,i only know the direction and i will keep on going God Only knows what is there in the destination.Keep on trying or why not pray to God for some help my freind,he might be very helpful,coz he was and is to me:-)
hehe just a friendly advice
God bless
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Here You are, dear Paulo Coelho, always with us ..
Have a nice day.
LOVE,
Thelma.
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As for me, I'm gonna have a hard time explaining how I feel but I'll try here. I am absolutely convinced I am following my Personal Legend, I am convinced of it more and more everyday. I feel like I followed it as a child until life and society made me go away from it for a few years. But around the age of 18, somehow I met the right people, travel and enjoy the right places. And here I am, back to it, more than ever, ready to let my heart, my soul express themselves and try to go forward, on the path I've chosen. Somedays it looks or sounds so clear, some days I just have to follow the signs. Some days I am losing faith and even feel ashamed about it. I feel lost and I know I'm just stopping on the side for a while, but I'm not strong enough yet. I would not be able to describe my Personal legend with words, I think I just build it everyday, find my way everyday. I try to follow my intuitions, try to find the way to wisdom through music, through writing, through reading, through people, through relationships. The path to wisdom is endless so I just try to enjoy each step I take, each step that makes my heart feel better about himself. I allow myself to change of goals, change of passions, since I think it's the right thing for me, since I think it's part of my Personal Legend.
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Minha lenda pessoal é realizar um sonho secreto. Estou plantando uma sementinha já há algum tempo. Estou recebendo ajuda de várias divindades e abrindo meu coração para receber o que está pra chegar, com muito amor. É conseguir viver do meu dom.
Beijos!
Fica com Deus e na paz!
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I have known since I was a child that I was meant to teach. I admired my teachers from 4 years on and always had a sense that I was meant to do what they do. As I grew older, I found many ways to mentor and teach, from being a natural “nurturer/leader” among friends to teaching religious classes at my church (I was 16 teaching 4-6 year olds) to being a camp counselor throughout high school. In college I found myself drawn to peer-education opportunities. Then I finally became a high school English teacher when my love of literature and my “calling” to teach came together.
That being said, I draw immense pleasure from posing pieces of literature to my student that answer the question, “What life lesson is here for me to learn?” My goal is to guide my students to finding those answers for themselves and becoming more thoughtful, empathetic, insightful human beings because of those life lessons buried in among the pages. I don't know if teaching is the complete picture of my personal legend…I know motherhood is something I want to be part of my life's work, but then mothers and fathers are always their child(ren)'s first teachers…
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Anthony, what is there when I read you is the importance to just accept what is at the present moment, not knowing, and let go (lâcher prise) and “live” connected to all your senses. Be observant, sensible to what is around you and mostly inside of you … meditate meaning stopping the mind for speaking and become sensible to your inner voice, your soul, that knows … experience, yes, like Sofie says, all things, be it insignifiant, small … just be all there “at the present moment” … be sure and keep faith … you will find and even now you are in your path …
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I think sometimes that my 'personal legend' is blind to me… though ironically obvious to some others.
Yet there have been signals along the way; signs nudging me this way and that way.
Oddly, having lost my 20s to illness… I have in my 30s really reflected on what exactly I am prepared to sacrifice … and I have discovered that in fact, I can still follow my personal legend, without half the trials or traumas that i thought the path might entail. In a way, being ill has alerted me to these 'wings of knowledge' [;o)]
and so my desire to help and love of the environment continues as, working within the environment…
however,
my place in that 'industry' can adjust
for instance.. I am more interested in medicinal plants… because of seeking alternative healing and finding inspiration from medicinal herbs. ..
and from this I hope, perhaps… to work in school/ community gardens in Ghana… who knows..
but, as much as I wish I knew with certainty -as many school friends did - that they were going to be doctors..
i am happy for this coastal walk with glimpses of bluebell forest glades…
there is such pressure to fit, to find, to fight, to …. get employed!!!!
but I have to listen to the heart [for sure]
and listen to what it is that i am here for, what life is inviting me to be…
and I am happy to be washed up on the beach by the sea for a while…
i'm discovering a whole new world along the way.
The real challenge is staying strong.
When focus is lost, that is when I am quick to accept any appealing path.
however, I AM learning to enjoy the process of life… as it really is… not planned beyond reason.
So best of luck for all you followers of your personal legend… it's a great journey, no??!
;o)
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I think my Personal Legend is to continue my father's legacy thru our family business. It also fuels my desire to see the world.
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Paulo
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Dear all,
-”Everybody has some duty to perform in this mother earth, nobody lives without any purpose.”
-”Yes, I understand life is adventurous journey and filled with painful, sad and sufferings but above all there will be bad times and good times, everything will come up eventually.”
-”One poor boy asked to wise man, 'what is the purpose of my life?', 'Wise man replied, 'World sees everything in duality principal, like where there is darkness, there will be light, when there is day, there will be night, when you will have pain, you will also get pleasure and so on and so forth but boy, the day you will find Oneness will be the day you will find your purpose of life.' “
-”I know right from the beginning what is my personal legend because the creator enjoys the Crown that only King enjoys.”
-”Don't try to find just who you are also try to learn who you are not.”
God bless you all !
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My personal legend is to try to make a bit of difference, even if it's just one person a day. To not become a slave to money, and remain true to my self. And try to remembe that the things that I don't like in other people are usually reflections of thing I dislike in myself.
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I'm 28 and I don't know what my personal legend it. I think I'm right before the bit where I'm suposed to figure it out.
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correction: I know I am on the right path!
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i think i might be on the path <3
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My personal legend is spreading the message to the world to genuinely listen to others, to be open to change based on what we hear, to begin with the assumption that somebody else (no matter who they are) has something important to say.
I do this by living it, writing it in my novels, and teaching. Even if my ideas of God seem heretical to some, I am about radical love and I think listening as a mindful practice accomplishes that.
(Don't forget to see my blog! http://welovetea.wordpress.com)
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My Personal Legend is to become a well known Environmental Engineer working for a Clean, Better and Sustainable world.
thanks,
Diego BA BR
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Hi Anthony,
I recognize your story, I 'm 30 and still discovering what my personal legend is. I found a way to do this: try to enjoy every day! Every day there will be something what you like to do (on that specific day). Don't try to look further, everybody has a Personal Path, but maybe you should not try to find it too hard.
In my case I am sure that one day, after having enjoyed all these single days of doing what I like, my Personal Path/ Personal Legend will become clear! And I am sure it will be the same for you!
Good luck and keep faith!
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Anthony, you're not the only one. I'm 25 and don't know what my path is, don't know what it is that I should be doing. This apathy is so consuming.
I used to study Hotel Management, had an scholarship and it was an incredible well known school, but I dind't like it, I wasn't feeling it, that was not what I wanted to do. So I quit. I got married, now I'm 4 months pregnant and still don't know what to do. I always loved psicology, and I'm planning to start this year to study it. But what if it's not what I want after all. This is driving me crazy…
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I am sure now that my Personal legend is linked to Literature. How, I still dont know. I thought always I am best in Literature, but, maybe not being a writer is my faith. We will see. But I wont give up , and try all the ways to be near to my love, books,writers.Being here is already a prize,sometimes I think what if I would never search for this site…My life would be much poorer.
Thanks God I loved Paulos novels,and searched information on him. Well,life is full of nice things.I feel happy now.
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Being on this blog is part of my personal ledgend!
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Hi Paulo,
My personal legend is to grow in my Spiritual Path, ever since I decided to learn everything that caught my attention in the Spiritual area, I feel enthusiastic and fulfulliled. This journey has gone beyond what I could have imagine when I started and I can see there is a long way to go!
Following my Spiritual Path has been the best decision I have ever made!!!
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A few summers ago after a particularly lovely visit to tara hill I had one of those dreams that you are just dying to tell someone about.
I was walking along near where I worked when I came across a cave with a small door. I looked down to my open hand and there was a key which no one but I posessed -the key opened the door, nestling inside the cave was my “treasure”. Insofar as treasure's go it was not unpreposessing, a large etheral blue sphere coloured a kind of glowing lapis lazuli. In anycase it filled me with a sense of completeness that did not diminish on waking and, when in real life later that week I found a lapis lazuli bead at the neolithic site where I was excavating the significance of it was not lost on me. My personal legend? I am an archaeologist -on the more mundance aspects of it I do spend a lot of time digging ditches, cursing the rain and getting dirty in the mud, but in the higher sense of it I believe myself a guardian/custodian of treasures.
Now, whether nor not my personal legend will change as I get older [I am 26] that is something I do not know and would be curious to hear of from older people who have went through a fair bit of change in their life.
In addition, to anyone that finds themselves at a crossroads (such as the poster anthony, above myself) might I suggest that you pay attention to the sychronicities in your life, as they generally lead someplace interesting.
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Hi Anthony!
Peolple tend to make such a big scenario out of being a Personal Legend.
Very often it`s not abot the big things & choices, but rather the small…
Everyday-happiness :-)
What would you like your dream/passion/goal to be?
What is important for you?
It`s also pretty much about being avare of ones everyday-feelings;
What makes you smile & laugh?
..and with whom?
Where do you feel natural & free?
Be open Anthony and start exploring your feelings -
As you find out what is NOT your legend, the closer you get ;)
All the best wishes for you!
B*Sofie
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i believe in my heart that someday, i would be able to direct, write, and produce beautiful films. i started very young, and i started acting in several shows. you can say that i am on the right track and that the universe is helping me to get to my Personal Legend.
however, there are so many trials that i am going through right now. there are people who tell me i cannot make it and sometimes, i lose hope. but at the end of the day, i know that my Personal Legend awaits me, and that my troubles right now tells me that I am, in fact, getting there, somehow.
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Ah,it's so interesting again to have put that here for all of us.Plenty of brillant ideas here in the new blog.
Well,I guess and it was interesting to see the answer of Catherine,because i have felt many times like that,since I like many things.But it has to be something that thouch writing,because it plays a huge part in my life,writing is my first love,lol.Then music is my second love!And of course everything that is spiritual.Well,I guess for the moment,my priority is to finish the book i'm writing now.And then,we'll see.This is what I always wanted to do.In the meantime,I'll still continue writing other stuff,other forms of writing,study Tarot and try to help people somehow.And learn more plenty of things,spiritual,wisdom of the ancients,be more in touch with nature,perhaps initiate myself to Wicca.I talked with my best friend who is practicing it and i think it's quite what I'm looking for.I don't think I will be able to follow just one path,I'm too multiple.I love too many things.Sure I could be a good singer too,blank,lol.
But anyway,I have many loves but my first stays writing,for sure.
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I would give ANYTHING to know what my Personal Legend is. Yet here I am, in my late 20s and having no idea what my dreams/passions/goals are. It's beyond frustrating.
Well, maybe it'll come to me eventually.
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my Personal Legend is playing basketball and getting better, I am a sportman. I also like reading and writing. I hope to become a writer or a journalist.
Those are for me the things I live for, and love is my sense of live.
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A comment you made recently during an interview stays in my head, you said that you have enough money now to live simply. That is what I want and it seems so difficult. Of course Iwant to write and let of all the emotions I carry with me everyday, but for now, I'm still hanging on to them (for whatever reason). But I think that once I am able to live simply and not be cluttered by the world around me, I will wholly be part of life around me….
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My Personal Legend, is to find myself through Music, my Path, like alchemy, to transform into something rather beautiful, and offer this beauty , the music, to the world..to become one with the world through this music and make a change by making it a little more beautiful, ..to feel…
only when i play or write music i feel part of the world, so i believe that says it all..
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“fills our heart's with enthusiasm”
that would be love:
love of learning/ growing spiritually
love for the environment
love for my family
love to give to others
and that is as far set in stone that my personal legend might reach for now…
until i discover the ultimate destination in this life i am seeking to find..!!
but I happen to be at a crossroads…
;o)
I've considered fairly seriously teaching, environmental work, international development, freelance art & design, gardening, wildlife officer, writer for children, old person carer, and a couple of other things ;o)
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My Personal Legend is being
a roadsign to
joyful simplicity & love*
Life here in the mountains
with my children, society,
awesome nature &
the mirror to the world
is my path.
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My Personal Legend is
being a roadsign to
joyful simplicity & love*
Life here in the mountains
with my children, society,
awesome nature &
the mirror to the world
is my path.
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