Paulo Coelho
The warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays.
(Manual of the Warrior of Light)
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In this world nothing is isolated.
Everything is sacred, and everything is linked to the other things.
So as all the roads, bring to Rome, every aspect of our life is a step that leads us to the “Sapientia” (knowledge).
love
Chris
by the way,congratulazions,Paulo, for the results of Brazil-Italy (3-0).
Weeks ago I wrote in the free space of this blog about prices and values.
Yesterday I had the prove that what I wrote was correct.
Footballplayers earn so much money, but their work didn’t worth all that money.
When we are children the dreams include ourselves and parents. Then we add friends, lovers ;], husbands or wives, children …. The circle is expanded .. The center of the Dream is our heart.. It is the core of our being. Our centre of LOVE, our Sun.. We do not dream anymore for our own … happiness, THE DREAM, but we visualize our loved ones Happy, sharing our warmth, happiness, joy, LIGHT and LOVE. Because we do not want a Paradise for our EGO, but a Paradise shared….
May we all fulfill our dreams and Savita, I love you for the dreams you have for you and your daughter and the determination you have..
LOVE,
Thelma.
Thank you, Thelma, and you too, Marie!
And, Thelma, I love this idea of the heart at center-circle of our dreams – the heart that expands and includes the well-being of others as opposed to the ego that contracts and thinks only of itself.
Love,
Savita
I Love this Paulo…just like a collection of words and letters can form a beautiful sentence, or the droplets of water form an entire ocean. And the readers of your books forming a loving community.
So, since music speaks to my soul, I will share a clip of YoYo Ma, playing tiny little notes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwQ4D1zDEWU&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div
Thank You Paulo : )
it’s true. The small things make greatness. I believe in that. The great dream is the prise, but the little things / efforts / gave us the meaning of life. And in the end of our journey we became much better as persons because our dreams and the sunlight’s rays.
He knows that he needs to follow Pifagor to make his Dream come true,just to sum up,multiply,divide or,alas,subtract helps to reach the Target.
So true the quote! like a piece of music, is made up of many different notes, not just one… that would be quite monotonous and unbearable. Many notes, yes, high pitched, low pitched, there’s the melody, the harmony, the beats, the rhythm, the tempo, and different instruments as well, each with it’s own different set of notes. Take an orchestra for example, so many instruments. Like the sun’s rays!!!
Thank you Paulo, for sharing your wisdom with us everyday, that’s a true master, a true teacher, one who does not hold back but shares all that he knows! Thank you.
love.
C.
Have to copy that one…
It is an interesting quote. I wish I could sort out the Sun’s ray waves from human disabling waves. People are surrounded by so many things a filter would be nice!
Marie, maybe we can create a new satellite dish with a special filter for people! Would that be a good invention :) The mouse would be more quiet.
Thanks you so much…it’s great idea ! I would say in the mouse !!!
I can very much relate to this in my recent efforts to relocate. I am looking for a new place to call home – not just a different house, but an entirely different city, region, social and cultural environment. This is difficult, because it isn’t just one thing that I am seeking; it is many! Yes, I want a great school for my daughter, but I also want a satisfying job that pays well and does not hinder my writing efforts. I want to be around others who appreciate, are involved in, and love to converse about the arts. I want a spiritual community (although really I feel that I’ve already found this right here, on this blog). I want to live in a place of natural beauty and yet not totally isolated from the many benefits to be found in a larger city – again, access to the arts and a community of artists. I want to live in a place that is not suffocatingly hot in the summer! I don’t do well in the heat – I can’t breathe, I can’t think.
So, my dream is not just one thing – it is made up of many integrated parts. It is an extensive and complex whole. To make it a reality requires that I give attention to each individual component, ignoring none. It requires balance.
hi savita,
am i intruding ! allow.
suppose u find that perfect place where all your “intergrated parts” balance perfectly, what is the gurentee that tommrrow some more things would not join the list.
looking for a new place to escape the problems in first would not be much help, because problems will remain, at most their ‘type’ may change. Buddha as one of his founding principles says that “life is misery” and “there is way of the misery”, but that way is not on the ground, it is inside us.
i initially did not comment on this quote from paulo ( although i have been quite ‘active’ otherise ) because i didnot quote understand this. for me sunlight is one, i can hardly see the sunrays, for me goal is one, but probabaly what paulo meant was that in pursuit of that one goal we may be taking care of many goals, of diffrent dimesions….
love
aditya
You know, Savita, I can relate to all you are seeking in your dream. Somehow, I found out that all the things important in the exterior aspects (environment, temperature, land, friends …) are secondary, since I think that exterior should not influence the inner state. Being able to create, to live the present moment now, and having in mind to find priority one, priority two … funny but many times by finding one, three are accomplished. For me, I built my house, a house that has what was important to me. I created the exterior (garden, flowers). But I found a land that permits me to see a fountain and a little mountain. Well, I have to live close to many people who are not well awaken, but then, that does not more influence me. My house is my space where I can create and where I take care of the energy that is in and comes in. And friends … I meet people on a day-to-day basis and peole with whom I can talk like I like to talk … I have few and that is okay, because if I had too much would not be able to give presence, time, importance. My professional work and my researches (personal) feed me and permits me to extend, to be in the environment that nourrishes me and nourrishes others. What is there is … one day at a time, one step at a time, your dream will come through, for you have to be in the present moment to capture the important moment.
Hi Savita,
this change u are so looking forward to will be good for you, i am sure everyone here joins me in wishing you the fianncial security and stability you are so looking forward to. You write so well, a teaching job will be ideal for you.
about problems and solutions, karma and destiny. when it come sto accepting one’s past one may think of karma and destiny etc. it helps keep things in ‘check’, but when it comes to looking ahead at future, one must trust in ‘karm’ that is action and not karma.
do u ‘see’ that u may have contributed to creating your present reality in which u are being driven up a wall, our present unfolds in accordance with our past actions. in some other secion somehwre i read about your life story ( or am i confusing ) in which u talked about being amrried to some army officer.
Georje gurdijess used to say something like ” postpone your action for tomorrow if u feel it may bring pain to people around you, afterall u maybe wrong in your understanding of the situation, and do it immediately if u feel it bring some smiles around, again u may be wrong but at most the smiles will not come”. although i too can accuse myself of not foolwing this advise as i wrote what i did here, earlier. but to err is human .. ( why do we resort to this argument, or rather i resort to this when i have erred, do i give the same benefit to others too ? )
I have not known poverty like many people, my parents ensured that, although we were never really rich. But at the same time from very early on, since my childhood, i never asked for anything from my parents, well almost, because once i did ask for a pair of fancy shoes, to shown off to my friend who happned to be a rich girl, when i was in Std VII. it was met immediately, because i never asked for anything. after that too i did not ask for anything. God has been kind to me maybe because i too have been kind to others in their times of need, specially when the world has been condemning people , i like to be by their side, taking a few brickbats menat for them. whatever.
basically what i want to say to you is that.
1. Go ahead, u can surely write your own destiny, and do go ahead, with a prayer in your heart.
2. only way out of lack of funds is hard work, so work hard. although looking forward to the summer breaks is good, at other times work not less than 12-13 hours a day, 6 days a week. ( my advise, please don’t get angry, u may reject it ), work in that school ( and remember that in that shool u are just a tecaher, so chek your attitude there ), and then take tution calsses ( if that option is availble), take a 1 hour Yoga class ( i remember you attempts at starting a yoga class ) in whatever circusmatnces, don’t wait for the perfect set up, or for any fixed number of students, just start with even one, that i hour class, and u be your first student, that way at least 1 student is gurateed, to start the class.
have u herad of dynamic meditation, it is quite good to set the ball rolling.
write some articles on specifis topics and try to get it published, by sending it to diffrent magzines, don’t look for just well known names, if possible do some creative writing corse, which also teaches you the art of selling your writing.
rcently i was at a work shop on creativity and innovation, sponsored by by current employers, one of the highlights was to know that more cretaivity is needed to sell a creative idea that genereting a creative idea.
4. Pray, even at these chruches where christ lives no more is Ok, because the place provides the setting, and u can bring christ with you to church.
5. promise to save some money, never ever u will let yourself be in such poverty, poverty is the gretest curse on humanity.
like u i too don’t subscribe to teh view that it is all written, even if so what, i will give it a shot, that too must be written, no, if all is writeen, and does god do no editing, maybe that is why things are in such a mess. maybe we need to make god mend his ways and improve his perception of us humans.
godspeed, do it, u will succeed.
love
aditya
and one last thing Savita,
stop feeling that u are alreday well familiar with anything, suppose i say ‘rose’ what excatly are u familiar with, everytime u contemplate a rose if u are not able to contemplate a new angle to the beauty you are being a prisoner of your past, of your past expereinces.
as Jalaluddin Rumi said ” drop your cleverness and gain bewilderment”, this attitude that i alreday know this opr that, may bring arrogance to onece beaviour, and arrogance is the chief cause of downfall as depeicted in a famous epic here in india.
love
aditya
HI Nina,
In a moment where i too could have mainatined a polite indiffrence, i didnot, something got started, and when it did, it had to reach an end. i know i went all out, because my heart goes out to the lady, i hate to see her in pain and suffering ! i know advise is least taken, but yet i don’t mind another wasted effort. and why should anyone mind an advise, it is the ego which plays funny tricks on us.
Of course Savita is capable and if she is not looking for advise she will ignore, or maybe say something perhaps like what u said, that too is OK. But for Savita’s exterior conditions to change savita will have to change too, she will have to take a relook at what she thinks is right and what she thinks is wrong. If I want my life’s trajectory to change, i will have to change. paulo became succesful after he met M and allowed himslef to take a relook at his value systems, after he surrendred himslef to the quest, it is not easy. chnaging oneslf is the most difficlut task one can undertake, one must unedratke, one will have to unedertake, if not in this life then next….
i wrote all i did because i can feel her pain, and wish that she is out of it. lately i have been trying, but being politically correct, having any business acumen ( i always pay vendors 5 % more than whatever they may quote, condition being that they deliver the best quality ) etc etce is alien to me, freinds will understand, others …. wll forgive..
love
aditya
Really nice quote
I totally agree, and I will add that to really occupy that dream, I must become conscious of all the rays that compose it and emanates from it. Being aware, conscious of all the different things and the energy that emanates, that composes it, to be able to stay in a gratitude, recognizance, pleasure, humility, etc, mode …
It is true! It is necessary to work on several fronts at the same time. 5 senses are there to prove him !
Sometimes, I have the impression that I have miles satellite dishes which take out me of the head to make attention and take into account full of things!
Aarrghh! It is the shout of the small mouse which cannot it any more!… I make fun!!
Aditya,
I don’t really think I am running away from my problems so much as I am merely being realistic and trying to survive. I am leaving my house because it is being repossessed by the company that holds the mortgage – I have no choice BUT to leave. On a certain date the doors will be padlocked and if my things are not out, I will be out on the street without anything but the clothes on my back. I live outside a tiny town virtually in the middle of nowhere. Most of the jobs in this town pay around $5 per hour – I cannot survive on that, not as the sole supporter of myself and my daughter. If I want a better paying job (maybe $10 per hour), I have to drive 120 miles round-trip every day to a larger city. My old truck, the only vehicle I have, has almost 300,000 miles on it. It starts… sometimes… when it feels like it. And when it does start, it boils smoke like an old coal-burning train. In other words, it can’t make that trip every day. And even if it could, it would take all of my salary for gas. In my truck, the trip costs $20. Secondly, I have no one to keep my daughter while I work. I am not merely a “single” parent – I am an ONLY parent, and none of my family is healthy enough and/or willing to help look after my daughter. It is just me. So, the best and most reasonable option, as I see it, is to try to get a job teaching at a school where I have the same hours that she does, and summers off. I also want her to go to a good school, and I know what the public school in this rural community is like. I went there myself, and I still consider it twelve years of my life virtually wasted.
I understand what you are saying, Aditya: don’t bother trying to escape your problems in life because, wherever you go, your karma follows you. Yes, I have been taught this, too, but I am no longer willing to accept it. In the first place, I am not trying to “escape” – I am simply trying to make some rational decisions and take some steps to create a better life for myself and my daughter. And I happen to believe, contrary to that philosophy, that this IS possible. If I am determined enough and if I try hard enough, I CAN make this dream come true. I don’t merely have to sit back and “accept” what is – accept suffering with a smile on my face. I think that life is meant to be more than suffering.
Yes, when we are talking about psychological suffering, maybe the answer is to be found inside us – we simply have to find a new angle from which to view life and our surroundings. But do you know what it is not to have money to buy food? And I don’t mean just the food that you want, or the foods that you prefer – I mean ANY food? Do you know what it is to have your electricity cut off in the heat of summer, to have to draw water from the well in a bucket to take a bath? To light oil lamps at night to see by? Do you know what it is like to have no phone, no electricity, no gas in your car, no food in the house, and be living miles from town? There is such a thing as physical suffering, or want, and I believe that the answer to this is not merely to be found “inside.” Action is required and it is this action that I am trying to take.
To some, my dream might seem ridiculous – they would say: just stay where you are and make the best of whatever resources are available. Just accept whatever cards life has dealt you. But I truly believe that elsewhere there are environments more conducive to survival than where I currently live. There are opportunities out there, and if I look for these opportunities, I will find them. As the saying goes: “Knock, and the door shall be opened for you.” It certainly isn’t going to open if you just stand there and accept what is. Life is more than suffering, and dreams can come true. I don’t want a lot in life – I’m not expecting to be rich or to live in a mansion or to make a six-digit salary – but I do want “enough” to be at least moderately comfortable. And I believe with all of my heart, if I set out to attain this, “misery” is not going to simply follow me wherever I go.
So, I appreciate your advice, Aditya – I truly do. But, at the same time, it comes from a philosophy that I am already well familiar with. It is a philosophy of life that I cannot accept. Life is sooooooo much more than misery. My destiny is not something written in stone, some dictate that says, no matter what I do, I will know only misery – “I am destined to suffer.” I don’t believe that. My destiny is my own and it is shaped by my actions and the decisions I make at every step of the way – there is always the possibility to make life better, to make a dream come true.
Wishing you the very best. And thank you for taking the time to write.
Sincerely,
Savita
Savita,
I am very got by your personal history and I admire your strength not to accept the fate.
How I cannot share your history, I send you simply my positive energy and all my love!
Congratulations… your fight is beautiful.
Aditya, you went all out on your suggestions to Savita. I have been reading Savita on this blog for a while now, and I can say that I am sure she has the capabilities to do what she needs to do. She is a woman of many facets, she’s well grounded and very strong. Yet it’s so typical of a man to give advice when sometimes a woman talks or writes Just to vent and is not looking for advice.
Well, I’m sticking up for girl power here. Go Savita!! You can do it!
Nina