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Nobody loses by daring. But may lose while waiting for the “right moment”
ya nobody does , and daring is not destroying, destructing, demanding,doubting,diverting or distracting.
daring is being one with the moment and being one with the confidence of ones inner self. daring is the beauty of life
dare is life,dare is the spirit of life
well said
“Nobody loses by daring”…
This made me think deep after a couple of natural disasters that hit my homeland the Philippines..Government officials knew that certain areas in the city are’nt meant to be developed for housing because areas are low and would have problems with flooding but they still gave permission..How dare them to put unsuspecting people in danger..People knew that living at the edge of the river could mean losing their lives when there is typhoon and the water rises..But they continue to dare Mother Nature..Some live at the foot of volcanoes which they knew could bury them alive when it errupts, some even think that prayer will stop Mother Nature so they dare to stay instead of fleeing…
People dared to cut down trees continuesly without planting new ones which resulted in land slides that burried villages and it’s people in muds..So when you think about it, “daring” can be a very dangerous and irresponsible thing…In these cases I am talking about, daring means losing everything…
to take a dive into the ocean of possibilities
and become one
one with your destiny
Lots of love,
Vicky
It’s funny,
I just took a dive into my swimming pool and meanwhile that i remembered your quote!
Become one with the universe, that’s cool!
Best regards to everyone!
I’m sorry, I’m new around here,
Is it Vicky short for Victory, or, Victoria!?
Winning, for sure!
to dare is to take a risk. taking a risk be it on impulse or calculated one is something that will free us from thinking of “what ifs” in the future. i would rather take a risk and fail than do nothing.
Today, a dear friend died and I had done nothing as I was waiting for the right moment. Always feeling that today was not the right day,having a nagging feeling to do something but not having the courage to follow through.Why do we allow ourselves to be constantly distracted by the mundane when there are more important matters at hand. Matters that will not bring material gain but that will enrich and empower people who are less fortunate and that will inspire them to want to keep on living and breathing and being in this world no matter how hard. Daring oneself to care every moment of one’s life and not becoming immune to compassion is worth remembering to strive for…
don’t be hard on yourself … i once missed my moment… not helping someone in their hour of need…
but on reflection, i can see that the help i thought i could give to resolve, was not in fact the most important thing for that person at that moment.
yes, if i had dared at that moment… and yet, love is a two way thing…. something in me instinctively knew that – though i wanted to help – the problem was more serious than i could …help.
you’ve probably been a great friend throughout her/his life. don’t condemn yourself for not ‘meeting/raising’ to the challenge in the most difficult moment… that instant is not an examination for us to prove our most greatest self.
but i agree… we can live lives – perhaps inherited over generations – of physical distance and keeping the chin up… all purposeful in their own ways are these strategies… however… a hug is nice isn’t it? xx
Dear Tasneem,first I’m sorry for your loss.I’m with Catherine on that one,I’m sure you were a great friend,cos’ you care.I know as well that sometimes all the help you can give won’t change a thing.I’m not saying we shouldn’t help and I don’t know the whole story,saying that sometimes you cannot save someone from himself,no matter how you try.It’s a question of sensitivity too,some souls are so fragile,that their salvation comes when they cross over.Is that a question of past lives?don’t know.We need to do our best,but don’t forget that we aren’t the masters of someone else’s soul,heart and feelings.Salvation has to come from within first.We can hold hands,maybe we will make their pain lighter for awhile,but in the end it’s never in our hands.We are only recipients.It’s the will of higher above.May his soul rest in peace.
I’m loosing myself while waiting for the right moment…I don’t why, but I’m standing, waiting for something that show me the way and so I’m not actually living… I try to write to u cause a kind of voice inside of me tells me u can help me in finding my “prenda pessoal”…in a few months a lot of signs appeared to tell me to write to u but I always felt like scaring…
i know how you feel… that waiting,… like catching a gasp of air… treading water…
until you catch the moment…
can fly, soar…
but hang in there…
trust in yourself and believe…
i was ill for a long time… and could not bear to think of what was lost in that time whilst ill…
but also i had felt disembodied, detached from life…
but perhaps this is a change over moment… a lesson in which you are learnign to pay attention to detail, to stay awake… to hold on and be confident.
be happy…
you are not losing… there is no competition or race.
only lovex
Hi Sofia & everybody else :o)
nice meeting you.
I have never worked with a blog before, I just found it by chance and because a friend recommended Paul’s warrior website.
First, I just read the comments and got curious. And it was a kind of interesting to go into this blog myself :o)
It is linked to being nervous :o)
First, I really looked for not making a mistake at all.
And then, I got the feeling as if I am writing into the emptiness, but on the other side I knew that there were people reading it. but the internet gives still an anonymity to the user – I hope so :o)
But when time passes, I have come to know the people because of their comments. The communication becomes “familiar”. It feels to me now as if I am in a big room with many many known people.
The biggest change occurred with Paul’s topic “healing the wounds”. I found a style to use the blog that is very helpful to my work on my “topics”. I actually work on his topic all week, and then read your comments and see how they fit into my work. They “kick” me in every direction – it is actually fun and hurts :O)
To write this to you, I just want to show you how this blog currently helps me – and I am grateful for this. And this blog tells me in many many ways: it is important to stay true to myself :o) I will find the best solution for myself, I feel that I have the power to do it.
ooo!!great words!!But i thing if you know exactly that by daring you will lose, it is just stupid try this thing)))
“If you don’t know where you are going any road will get you there.”
Lewis Carroll
The quote you posted made me smile. :)
..Because all the roads lead to .. ROME!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
I like the word Elaine used: Namaste…
Thus,
Namaste to you all.
Thank you very much for this great discussion. It helps so much to straighten out my things I like to work on.
There has been a special, beautiful energy/dynamics in these blogs.
It is hard to describe.
It is a beautiful place.
Thank you all.
Talk to you next week :o)
K.
Definition: Namaste is a Hindi salutation or greeting. The word Namaste is a combination of the two Sanskrit words: nama, and te. Basically, nama means “to bow” and te means “you.”
Interpretation:
The God/Goddess Spirit within me recognizes and honors the God/Goddess Spirit within you.
So dear Katie, Namaste to you too. ;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Thank you, Thelma.
What a beautiful explanation.
It’s really better to try to do the things that you love to do to feed your curiosity. Who knows doing so might direct you to your own happiness. The “right moment” that you are waiting for may never come so you might lose all the chances you had while waiting. Happiness is also to be worked on, it doesn’t just come along, one needs also to exert effort to find it. Dare and be happy. If things don’t turn well then dare again, what is tomorrow for?
The lack of hesitation in knowing
Taken to heart
10/01/09
Rio de Janeiro certainly dared and won the hosting of the Olympics in 2016..Congratulations to all Brazillains ; I was watching the news on TV and heard the announcement I thought I saw Paulo Coelho dancing with joy in the crowd in Copenhagan???
Love,
Breda
Hi Breda,
I did see Paulo on ABC news, hugging some of the other Brazil delegates, just as the happy announcement had been made in Copenhagen. Also, there is a picture of him with the famous football star Pele, on Paulo’s Twitter. They both look very happy :)
Love,
Heart
Congratulations and … celebrations, dear Paulo Coelho !! The Olympic Games of 2016 will take place in RIO!! But we are going to be … seven years older by then!!;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Thelma! I was thinking the exact same thing out walking this morning. What is this fear of aging???
Love and Admiration,
Heart
xxx
You’re funny Thelma…
Yes, Congratulations Brazil and Paulo!!
2016… Wow, sure does seem a long time from now!
I like Football!! :D
omg… i need though to get to Rio before i am 40 !!!! yiiikes!
Hi everyone,
I think I am a square in Daniel’s story :o)
what a great story that helps to look at aging.
anyway, thanks for all your contributions.
I have an aunt who is 94 years old. she is still capable to live on her own, meet friends, visits museums and everything that she is interested in; she travels, and has many many friends.
I could see over the time how she developed her relationship to aging & dying. It changes – in a positive way. And, she enjoys every day intensively.
Sure, the body ages, and I can see that it is very important to take good care of it, the longer it will stay strong when I age (she still goes to gymnastic).
But really, the mind appears to “ripe” like the fruit in Daniel’s story. Maybe aging is a good ying-yang example? let’s look for the good when the situation appears to be negative.
giggle: may be this will help us to DARE in old age – as my aunt does it, maybe with different priorities we have now?
what did aditya (?) said about “everything is social conditioning”.
and this, is something that makes my life “rigid” and interferes with daring.
finally: somebody (sorry I forgot your name) said her grandmother looks pretty.
The same I thought when I sat very close to my aunt, with my reading glasses on: I could see all her wrinkles but she is beautiful! the beauty comes from the inside :o)
I know this is no the theme but I want to share my happiness por BRAZIL’S NEXT OLIMPIC GAMES… I THINK IT IS VERY NICE BECAUSE BRAZIL IS FULL OF JOY AND HAPPINESS… CONGRATULATIONS!… PAULO… LOVE CLAUDIA
Pessoal só gostaria de lembrar que ousar não é agir de forma vacilante ou despretenciosa, mas sim agir com toda o vigor, fé, habilidade e impetuosidade, como num golpe de espada.
Now in English
Hello folks,
Just like to say that when daring we shall remember to do it with all our guts, passion and best skills, all our soul at once, just like when using the sword!
About a year ago my marriage broke down my business went with it. So did my car, my house and my plans for the “future”. My identity as father and husband, house owner, driver of a shiny car, man who mows the lawns and business man all disappeared. What was left? Just me. I don’t think there is anything you can lose, not even a moment, because by the time you realise there was a moment, it no longer exists. Instinct is timeless.
With love, Daniel
Dear Daniel,
Thanks for sharing this your ‘embarrassing’ experience. To openly tell about ‘failures’ are very hard, even we all go through them. Life is very dramatic for many people, and sometimes we just want to find something permanent, stability and harmony, and we keep bumping away. I am glad you realize that you cannot ever loose yourself, and often at our weakest moment we somehow find our strongest solution. You know, I live in Phoenix, and this wonderful symbol of the bird who rises from the ashes and is reborn may be of some consolation to you. Let me show you how the Phoenix was understood in a Hebrew legend;
‘In Jewish legend, the phoenic’s name is Milcham. According to tradition, after Eve ate the forbidden fruit, she became jealous of the immortality and purity of the other creature in the garden. Eventually, she persuaded all the animals except the phoenix to share in her fallen state by eating from the forbidden tree.
God rewarded the phoenix by setting him up in a walled city where he could live in great peace for 1000 years. At the end of every 1000-year period, the bird is consumed by fire and reborn from an egg found in its ashes. One variation of this Jewish legend states that at the end of each 1000-year period, the phoenix’s body becomes small and featherless like a baby’s and than he grows up all over again.
In any case, the Angel of Death may never touch him’.
Love,
Heart
xxx
What was left? Just me.
Dearest Daniel, we do not lose anything; because we are not the … car, the house, the job, the … husband or wife. We are US, the centre of taking impressions, feels, remembers or forgets. We are whatever we can choose. We may think that we are losers but at the same time we are winners! We have gained in experiences.. We have become a new person. A stronger one. We have …learnt some lessons that we need in order to proceed in life. As Paulo Coelho has said: The important thing is every time we fall down to stand up smile between our … tears and proceed. We are never alone and since you ARE the poet you know how to mould your thoughts and dreams and create you future. A ..bright, luminous life full of love.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
so very true,,,
instinct is timeless..
;o)
Dear Daniel,
You are still a father..nobody can take that away from you. Everything else you can regain as you are aware that You still exist and belong to no one but yourself.
love,
Laxmi
Daniel, How does someone survive that? Too have a series of losses sounds too much. I liked reading your post and everyone who replied. It took me awhile but I think I understand when you said “What was left? Just me.” Time, Strength, and Responsibilities.
I hope you meet more people who give their help as much as you bring out.
Hi Daniel,
Thank you for being so brave in sharing your story with us. Many people have difficult experiences in life but it all depends on how we manage to pick ourselves up and move on.
I agree with you when you say that ” Instinct is timeless ” but I also think that instinct is firmly rooted in the present moment.
EXAMPLE: I see a bus coming towards me and it’s going to hit me.
My instinct tells me to jump, so I jump!
If I don’t follow my instinct at this moment, I will be dead!
Sometimes, as in this case, immediate action is required!
Wishing you every happiness in your future life,
Love, Theresa
So very true ….. :o)
What is left is me – and MORE.
The More was covered by fear, and appears now that I dare.
What are the important things I fear to lose?
Are they really so important?
Or, are they totally defined by how I WANT that my life unfolds?
So very true …
Intuition/instinct does not have much place in such a life.
Well said, Daniel!!
Good luck in your life, whatever you decide to do…
But Daniel, You are still a father – I don’t think You lost that role! We all saw that picture You had with Your sons on the beach, that wonderful moment. And You are right – all that was left was You. And sometimes through difficult times that life throws at us, we learn to know us better and wiggle our ways out to a better place.
And even if we don’t always see that “loss” as something easy to handle at the time when it happens, that exact “loss” could prove to be the “best thing that has happened to You for a while”. It can be a change to a new life, that possibly brings us more joy and great moments. Becoming alive, I call it.
I’ve “lost” many things, including my “normality” and my “normal childhood”, due to certain things in my life. I have heard a great saying about it, which will be appropriate to mention here, I think. “Success is how high You bounce back after being hit the bottom.”
And since world changes, we should be able to ‘bounce’ after it. Give our best and try to bounce back as “good” as we can.
Love,
Liina
Daniel
Yes, sometimes it takes great and strong winds to bring us to realize that we forgot the most important part in all the decisions that we have taken, in all the paths that we decided to go on … us, the soul. I too had to experience hard times and face death to realize that in all my decisions (profession, marrying, mothering, house …) I was acting upon what I thought was essential to obtain to be accepted, recognized, someone … in all I forgot to start from me, what I wished the most, what nourished my soul really, being sensible to my inner voice and not what was put in my head that influenced my decisions, all that inner turbulence of emotions because of want I heard and observed and could not comprehend, and what was inside me undiscovered that at the same time made me move. Coming back to the soul, to the true essence of me, after what I considered the last failure in a “role”, I then decided to take another chance at life, but this time starting with me, and today I thank God for all that I had to go through those “failures”, what I thought were failures at the time, to find the one thing that I needed the most … love for me, relation with myself, respect to who I am truly, love for who I am truly, after years of now listening and observing not the exterior but the interior. Happy to read Daniel that you have come up from the black tunnel, the desert, because that is where me I was before seeing the light, the light of me, the light of God for me. With affection, Jojo.
Just saying ‘hey’
hello :)
Just … answering.. ‘hey’!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Just anwer…Welcome ;-)
“Hi, Have a good one.”
“Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart” (Act V, Scene II).
Very.
Shane.
Very wise dear Catherine!!
I have ‘searched’ the definition for ‘ere’ .. SO now I have caught the meaning!!!
As soon as we .. depart from this … vain material world, all the riches of the World will be ours!! This is happening also every-timee we are … dreaming, in sleep or … daydreaming!!
I am … already rich!;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
What if one loses everything that one has found important?
Then daring becomes the only thing one has.
Reflection is important.
But fear can come in and interferes: to wait for the “right moment”.
When everything is lost,
Daring is easy …
One day: the voice of fear asks to wait …
And it becomes a voice without power.
Another day: the voice of fear is there – as usual.
But now the experience of daring helps to look at this voice differently – it is time to reflect.
The feeling of power in oneself grows
Gently and appears to be fragile
But
It feels that one grows to be independent – finally.
It is so nice to see, so many people gathering caring bout each other, talking each other, helping each other. It is beautiful. Thank you for such a warm welcome!
Hi Carra, Nice to meet you. I love visiting here too and love the sharing, peace and caring also!
Much Love, Jane : )
Namaste,
My first reaction to this was “Yeah, Yeah, I know.” My second reaction was to get to work. LOL
Love to you
:) . Good one.
love,
Laxmi
I just came to the idea that daring is maybe not enough, one must have a strategy too (often) and preparation. All depends what is about.
success is when opportunity meets preparation.you’re right.
http://www.mgmsolutions.com/storm_leopard/leopard_home.htm
The Storm Leopard
written by a family friend [MGM]
and outlined here in narrative on his website.
Sadly the illustrated bit I helped on are to be part of the published part. Anyway, the story of wildlife conservation in Africa is the focus theme… ;o)xxx
“Sometimes you just have to do it. No reasoning, no accounting, no planning, you simply jump… and pray the landing is soft”
Read the preface and initial chapters at the above link ;o)
the Storm Leopard looks like a wonderful book. Got it all, the exotic surrounding, the journey, the quest for a better way of relating as humans…Love the title..Dramatic!
We just have to see the published book now, to see your designs. Are they photos?
Thank you very much Catherine ! I like ;-) that…I remember of colours, smells and especially a huge freedom – in spite of danger – just like the landscapes which they see on photographs.
I wish you you and your friend all success of this splendid experience. You made me again travel! o)
Light & Love,
Hi Paulo!
I do agree that one has to be daring to be able to achieve anything in life. However, I also feel that there is a thing like the “right moment”. It is a moment when both your heart and mind are aligned and when any action is taken with the conviction of your heart and clarity of your mind, it is bound to bring the desired result. However, one should not wait for this right moment and rather build such moments by asking right questions and listening to the answers. What say!!!
“Here I am and here I rest. And this town shall be called Totnes.”
– Brutus of Troy, the mythical founder of Britain, who first came ashore on the island. The Brutus Stone is placed where he was supposed to have first set foot in Britain.
Hola!!!
Sus libros me han impresionado bastante aunque solamente he leído 3 de ellos, porque no tengo acceso ni bastante información acerca de sus obras las cuales son grandiosas y muy infiltradas en la vida real. Los libros que he leído BRIDA, VERONICA DECIDE MORIR, EL ALQUIMISTA me han dejado un poco de toda la sabiduría que usted posee la cual fue adquiriendo durante el tiempo que ha transcurrido de su vida… pero lo más importante es que sus libros llegaron en el mejor momento porque estaba pasando por muchas peleas interiores buscando el sendero de la verdad, el mejor camino a seguir y sobre quién debería ser yo… Realmente estoy muy agradecida con usted y con el Ser Ssupremo por haberlo enviado al mundo. L.Q.M GRACIAS
Requoting someone here at the blog..
“there is no medicine for fear.. one has to take the risk”
eeek!
Wow.. i think i would agree… although… almighty love will help you to soar
;o) x
‘When it is in your power to do a kindness, never put it off to another time, for charity is death’s reprieve.’
(from letter of St Polycarp to the Philippians)
Oh dearest Heart, I did not know that St.Polycarp had written letters…
Do you know, my father’s name was Polycarpos Philippides.
Have a happy, healthy, wonderful month.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Thank you, Heart, for a lovely quotation. Yes, the time to do a good deed is always NOW!
Love, Theresa
And even if I should loose by daring, at least I dared and retrieve from that experience a valuable lesson! :-) Jojo.
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