Paulo Coelho
When I was interned in Dr. Eiras Hospital, I began to have panic crises. One day, I decided to consult the psychiatrist in charge of my case:
“Doctor, I am overcome by fear; it takes from me the joy of living”.
“Here in my office there is a mouse that eats my books”, said the doctor. “If I get desperate about this mouse, he will hide from me and I will do nothing else in life but hunt him. Therefore, I put the most important books in a safe place and let him gnaw some others.
“In this way, he is still a mouse and does not become a monster. Be afraid of some things and concentrate all your fear on them – so that you have courage in the rest.”
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A very nice parable! i love collecting and reading such things!
Alla
Dear Mirela!
Here is the anwer for your Question:
But don't ask Cards too much! Ask the Great Almighty! Better for you!
Divination usage
The Ace of Cups Tarot card's meaning is that of joy and inner peace from friends and family. The 5 streams pouring out of the cup represent the 5 senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch.
The Ace of Cups is a symbol of possibility in the area of deep feelings, intimacy, attunement, compassion and love. In readings, it shows that a seed of emotional awareness has been planted in your life although you may not yet recognize it. When the seed sprouts, it could take almost any form. It might be an attraction, strong feeling, intuitive knowing, or sympathetic reaction. On the outside, it could be an offer, gift, opportunity, encounter or synchronistic event.
When you see this Ace, examine your life to see how its loving energy could work for you. This card often means that love is the essence of the situation. It may or may not be romantic love. Look for ways in which you can begin to connect with others. Do you have someone to forgive, or do you want to ask for forgiveness? Can you set aside your anger and find peace? Would you like to drop your reserve and let your feelings show? The Ace of Cups tells you that your time is coming.
This card also suggests inner attunement and spirituality. Cups are the suit of the heart, and the Ace stands for the direct knowing that comes from the heart. Trust what your feelings are telling you. Seek out ways to explore your consciousness and your connections with Spirit. Allow the power of your emotions to guide you in a new direction. Embrace the love that is the Ace of Cups. [3]
Description: Love, intimacy, deeper feelings, and compassion surround the Ace of Cups. This card announces the beginning of great possibility in this area of life. It can mark the start of a new relationship, or a deeper connection to an existing one. While this may be a romantic relationship, it can also signify a friendship. A seed has been planted and once it sprouts, it can take almost any form, from an attraction to an intuitive knowing. Trust in the feelings that are present. Furthermore, this card can signify a gift or opportunity. An offer may be forthcoming. Reversed, this card indicates that the creation of a deeper connection to another is being blocked. This can be due to circumstances or because of a fear of intimacy. This is the time to consider how the past is connected to the present, and how it may be interfering with closeness to others. Examine circumstances in life to determine if time, other people, or work is getting in the way of developing new relationships.
Why be afraid of anything? It doesn't serve you any purpose. FEAR! The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob declares that the spirit of fear didn't come from God.
Dear Savita,a very good friend of me,told me for years aproximativly the same storry but with ants.Herr psihoterapie praxis(cabinet)was,realy invaded with them.
Because she didn`t wanted to cause this souls any pain,she made only one exercise to cop the non lingual chanel to comunicate betwin defrent lifearts:thelepathie.She aked them in a very concret but respectful art to take another path to do their important dutyes,and let her praxis in peace.Because her ASK was very determinated and she belived what did she do, her intentions were heared from ANTS,and a day after, they were allready gone ,by tooking anouther Path through garden.
Conclusion…i think you have ALL the Qualityes ,to try the same EXERCICE.
GOOD LUCK ,and let me know …what happend!
Love,
Mirela(the woman in love)
PS.What means in TAROT ,the CARD NR.1(the AS CUP)?I will very apreciate if you can help me!
FEAR… Had you ever had a feeling of being untouchacble, in everything you did? I was before a long time ago. I fear nobody and feel secured. But the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob taught me a lesson of fear. That i am a mortal and my time in this world is just passing.
HI dear Alexandra!
Don't be afraid!!!Just take allways, A KO SPRAY IN YOUR BAG!!!((and it is seriously now!I made that,as a precautions gesture since my childhood)You can interpratet how you want:but I like RISKS…specially when I think it is WORTH!
Love,
Mirela(the woman in love)
Ai, ai, ai .. Todo psiquiatra é meio doido. Com tanto remédio de matar ratos, e ele alimentando mais doenças. Se no final você iria fazer o que quizesse, pela própria pergunta que fez.
Beijos,
Mari.
I hope for nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
Again the famous Kazantzakis quote.It expresses me fully!!
Fear governs our lives since we are born. Fear for the .. unknown, for the new things in life. Fear that we will disappoint others and fear to .. face ourselves when we .. fail.
Fear is a …. mouse! He eats our … guts! We can let 'him' govern our lives and paralyse us or we can become … friends with him! How we become .. friends with fear? By analysing it. Why are you afraid, of what and why.. Thus we split it to different fragments and we use our logic the strongest weapon of us against our 'enemy'. We defeat our 'enemy' by .. getting acquainted with him. Because it is our … fantasy that creates the … monster. KNOW THYSELF !
LOVE,
Thelma.
Lovely annie from greece,
thanks for your refelctions and response to my dilema. i tend to live without fear, not even of strangers, perhaps because my school was chnaged 5-6 times as my father was in a job which requred us to move every 3-4 years, i found that change of place always brought in my life some new good freinds and oppertunities ( alongwith anxiety pangs, loosing freinds and familiar surroundings ), while i retained contact with older freinds. in good ol days i used to write letters to old freinds, since advent of phone and email, the charm is lost !
on a more exitenstial level, should we fear not living in accordance with the ten commandements ! specially the one related to adultery.
love
aditya
Ha ha ha, Mirela dear, you succeed . You are funny. How is life in the elevator? I dont know, sometimes I am afraid to take the elevator. Because might be a trap,if A KILLER COME WITH ME THERE.
Dearest friend Aditya, i believe fear is personal, i mean you fear some things, i fear others..I believe though that we shouldn t let fear intrude in our life in a way that makes us afraid then to LIVE..i believe this is one of the important books you should keep in another safe place,this that goes with your DREAMS, and the other one , not to be afraid to LOVE…
Love and Graditude
Annie
Oh, this makes me feel very bad – quite like a “monster” myself. Just yesterday, after months of deliberation and hesitation, I put out mouse poison in my house – in three places: the kitchen, a closet, and behind the books in my study. I tried cats already, months ago, as I felt more at ease with this solution. After all, it is quite natural for a cat to eat a mouse, right? Wrong. Not these cats anyway. Between the three of them, they caught one mouse (or at least one that I saw). Meanwhile, the rest of the mice continued to multiply. After a month, I sent the cats back to my father, thanked him, and decided to just live and let live. My daughter and I have a pet mouse – Snoozles – who is very cute and of whom I’m quite fond. So, what could a few more hurt, right? Wrong again. First, my aunt came to me with a newspaper article stating where a local man had recently died from Hanta Virus, which he caught from cleaning a tool shed wherein wild mice had been running rampant. Secondly, these holes began to appear – one in my study wall, right by the bookshelf, a second in the livingroom, a third in my daughter’s closet. They were even gnawing during the day, so loud that I could scarcely concentrate to write. I tried banging on the wall, but that only deterred them for a moment or two. Then I began to find mouse poop everywhere – in corners, on courter tops, on furniture. They ate the insulation out of my oven, or more likely, pulled it out to make a nest somewhere. All of my wicker storage baskets suddenly had holes in them. They chewed up magazines, books, the bread and crackers in the pantry, my daughter’s new swimsuit…. They also began to get very brave, coming out in broad daylight, running across the cabinet or scurrying across the floor right in front of me. Finally, I said: “Enough is enough! This is war!” Still I couldn’t bear the thought of mousetraps – finding them smashed to death – those cute little whiskers, those adorable bug eyes, that teenie nose and non-existent chin. So I went to the feedstore in search of other options and came back with several packs of pellets that the shopkeeper assured me were highly effective. Just last night, I placed them about the house in certain strategic places. I read on the package: “You should start seeing dead mice within five days.” Although I’m not looking forward to this prospect, I suppose it is inevitable.
I guess you could say that, at present, I am concentrating all my efforts on ridding my house of these mice. Once they’re gone, I can worry about being brave in other matters.
Dearest friend Aditya, i believe fear is personal, i mean you fear some things, i fear others..I believe though that we shouldn t let fear intrude in our life in a way that makes us afraid then to LIVE..i believe this is one of the important books you should keep in another safe place,this that goes with your DREAMS, and the other one , not to be afraid to LOVE
Love and Graditude
Annie
I don’t know why? But I still have that feeling that I am The one mouse ,who is HOUNTED(pray),as a mantas,from a beloved weise man!and not vice-versa!
…just trying to bring a littel humour ,hope to not angry anybody!!!
Conclusion:Paradoxum…I like it!(how was that?fear and desire…)
LOVE you so much
Mirela(the woman in l…)
It is when I decided to discover who I truly am and to follow my dreams that the panic attacks got stronger … even at night I was overcome by “black entities”, like if they were not happy that I was coming back to life … I was going against all the education, the words and parenting advices (said in a loving care for me and not conscious of the internal impact to me). My body was like opposing or reacting, and many times I thought I was going to die since those manifestations were so violent. When I touch fear, I do not ignore it, or do I gave it power. You know what, I decided to make it a partner. For example, when I have to exist, affirm myself, verify with the other, express something and there is fear, I name it and pass to action. “I note that I fear to hurt you if I tell you that, but I need to tell you, to ask you … and vlan! I pass to action. I do it with myself all the time, in my mind! I developed conscience of my fears, I feel it, name it, the real one (because if I do not be sensible to it, it will generate million of fears that are not realistic of the present moment) … So, I see that I have that fear, if I listen to it, will I go on my path, my mission, the realization of my dreams, etc … because sometimes the fear is well founded … and I need to develop a protective mode … to summarize, I do not let a fear (mouse) become a monster no more. Being in the present moment permits me to identify the fear of the moment and act with it. I have the courage to pass to action, with the fear, and then when the moment is passed, I stay with that great feeling of having made it … I was what doctors called an agoraphobic and today I work in the relation domain, have an enterprise and started a Foundation that ask of me to develop relations!
so good!
Dear Paulo and readers…
I have in the past days been terribly amazed at how little fear I have felt during my visit to south-west england… perhaps it is the peace of the countryside, or the non-threatening culture here of friendly folk..
but incidentally, I have gone from walking in the shadows to walking in.. [erm rain actually] .. metaphoric sunshine.
I would never have dreamt this was possible in a brief week, two months at maximum. After perhaps some years now of fear-fighting… this is a huge breakthrough!!!
So… I wanted to add in agreement that: yes, keep safe your heart/ preserve your favourite books … so whilst the mouse is out… all can be well.
Accepting a little fear, or allowing step by step for that fear to govern your life less and less, is a real option…
After all… it’s ‘JUST’ a little mouse… and you are ‘ONLY’ human ;o)
Blessings x
“Be afraid of some things and concentrate all your fear on them ….” e.g. what all should we be afraid of ! paulo won’t be in a psotion to answer this any further, request freinds here to shed some light !
love
aditya
Thats right. But why not giving bit of poisoned cheese to the mouse,or bringing a nice cat? A hungry one…
Thats not a joke, at my mothers house the new cat today caught again a mouse, and gave it to the little kitten to play. If I had had a camera I would have made a short film, was so funny how the kitten jumped and played with the mouse.
I know you were only comparing things, fear is a natural feeling that helps us to survive.
If we would have never feared anything, we just go ahead into any dangerous situation. But balance as always is the key word.
I had too panic attacks, when lived with my friend. He was the only one who make me feel that way. I know he did anything on purpose, but he influenced me too much. I was always afraid that I am not good enough for him. Even if I looked as a photo model, I was much younger than him, and I am bit smart too.
Maybe I knew I am going to lose him,as already happened. But life is that way, we part, not because I am not the best.
But really weird experience a panic attack. I wish never to have them again.
God bless you all
Bye