Quote of the Week

by Paulo Coelho on October 12, 2009

Life is short. There is no time to leave important words unsaid.

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Botnari Roman December 1, 2009 at 10:44 pm

God is not human , it’s neither man or woman , it’s God ! The church or i don’t know who , is trying to promote this old skinny man that would be our God , but no , this is wrong . God gave us the word , but it’s beyound our comprehension .

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Pandora October 19, 2009 at 11:20 am

He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee does bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe

Shakespeare

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Liina.L October 19, 2009 at 3:52 pm

Thanks. I’ve never seen it (the poem) before. I like the idea of it. Don’t need empty flatterings but a real friendship.

Love,
Liina

LaJuana14 October 19, 2009 at 7:43 am

Who Am I to say I love yOU?…

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vicky October 18, 2009 at 4:08 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-DWT0kw8Fg

Lots of love,

Vicky

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Daniel October 18, 2009 at 4:12 am

A short film for a short life.
You may cry and laugh at the same time.

“Signs”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy0HNWto0UY

With love, Daniel

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THELMA October 18, 2009 at 2:57 pm

Thank you dear Daniel….
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Liina.L October 18, 2009 at 11:39 pm

Thanks Daniel.
It was great.

I love the ending. A bit silly, but cute.

Love,
Liina

Supia October 17, 2009 at 10:41 am

There is an important words unsaid to me.

Bible’s drama is happening in human’s inner world at present and the miracle happened to me.
I have to mention about it though nobody believe me.
But, that is true.
Bible is not ancient document but alive God’s words.
I saw and felt the most beautiful place human can go.

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candieb October 17, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Believe me Supia,I believe you.Having felt peace and love that I cannot describe in words in the presence of an angel.I never heard voices and don’t know what you must have seen,but I do know there is more than this.I knew someone who’s been transported somewhere so peaceful when she gave birth in a fraction of second just by looking into her child’s eyes.She said it was somewhere around the stars though,so which leads us to what Kealan said earlier.There is more to discover in the desert ect..and things that have been hidden to us too.To me the bible like all other sacred books hold a piece of truth but not all,there are some missing pages,things left unsaid,unread,not found.Yet perhaps we are made of star dust but surely to me,the memory leaves and the soul carries it.Also think that love is more important than all the rest,this feeling you take it with you too.If I believe that we are resting somewhere when we cross over,I believe also that some persons we love can come to say hi sometimes,specially when we need them going through bad things,or for big celebrations like when a new born baby is at home,just like it happened to me.We truely never die,only the body which is just an recipient.And some people are more sensitive than others and can feel presences.I’m one of those,but I do know people who are even more.Some accept it as a gift and use it to pass messages,like mediums.Some even work with the police.Some don’t recognise it and suffer all their lives.It can be a curse or a gift,depends how you use it.This is another proof for me that there is much more than this.Sometimes unfortunately there are tricky voices that can come from something evil,for example,who could kill in the name of God,while God is pure love?This is an example.I think we would agree.What are schizopherenes in fact?Do you think it is being medium taken as extreme?Do you think they do hear evil voices?Perhaps are they mediums who deny it?Or so sensitive individus that they are easy to manipulate.I do believe that when people are sick and fragile some evil forces can push them too.I’ve seen the face of evil,and not only me,my boyfriend,before I knew him,my best friend when she was 15.We did all described the same guy,evil looking like,who tried to kill us in our (so real) dreams.Only for my boyfriend and I he came once,but my best friend he came for 6 months and almost killed her.All I know is that she was really sick at that time,struggling with really bad asthma,so fragile,it was easy and as she is a bit like me,a sponge for spirits passing by,you see was easier.Sure with what I’ve felt and seen I do believe in God and devil and bright and dark forces.There are so many things to discover,so interesting.

Well sorry for that long message and a bit out of subject.I guess I had things unsaid that I wanted to write today,even if for myself.Thank you for reading.
Be well Supia.

Supia October 17, 2009 at 7:16 pm

“In 2004 I read his book, The alchemist.
In those days I was about to step on the path of my dream after the initial door on the path was opened with unbearable hidden sorrow. But I didn’t perceive that the way would be the right way, led me to come to secret place behind milky semitransparent veil came down from the air of our consciousness. That period was a pregnancy period of consciousness. I saw a round shiny crystal ball at the place. I felt it was love in my mind.

There is a calm and empty-fully space just one-stepped into our consciousness in our inner world. At that place, I saw the universal besprent stars through human’s eyes. One of them is him. In that manner PauloCoelho became a sense to me as one of a few artists. He dropped his work wearing clothes of his soul aged of 38 on my knees across the universe. Slowly my knees was being dyed like a red petal painted on an achromatic color. Still not yet climbing up my mind.”

The above words is my blog’s selection. I wrote, “I saw the universal besprent stars through human’s eyes.” But, the period was human inner world’s the first place which I could feel peace, but yet there was no the Light.
From 2004 to 2008, I had a gestation period of consciousness from the white veil. I didn’t know the role of white veil, but now I know it. When the white veil was hanged down, it was a role of the navel string of consciousness. Actually, I didn’t become pregnant with any child but I became pregnant with myself’s consciousness.
And I was possible to feel like a newborn baby after the veil slap down with ceremony of the Light.
When Ceremony of the Light started, the veil was slipped down like a handkerchief.
During last year, I lived with the Light and I lived within the Light.
As soon as the white veil disappeared, the bright light from my head’s center shined the light toward our world.
But powerful energy’s source existed in the center of my chest.
I could see only light. God oneself has never made a darkness. I couldn’t see the evil. I just could see fears in human’s inner world.

Thank you, candieb.
American? In fact, your story was too long but on the other side I’m very gald. I’ll read again.

Luciano Luz October 17, 2009 at 4:46 am

Encantei-me com o seu livro “O ALQUIMISTA”.
Realmente, a vida é o “nosso maior tesouro!”
UM GRANDE ABRAÇO E PARABÉNS!
Você é um excelente escritor!

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jay October 17, 2009 at 3:32 am

Hi everyone,
Talk about W o L, I just got back from some insanity at the local mill. This guy is mixed up with a loco chick, she’s badly messed up. It sounds like she killed his dog, or her demons did. Crazy. He got an odd situation where he is challenged in a spiritual way. He said he met her a few weeks ago at a church function, and started being dad to her two kids, 9 adhd boy and 7 girl. This woman was apparently beaten as a child and appears to be living a life of hell. I met her and she appeared a little drunk to me, swinging a cat around by the tail. Creepy, but his old dog bit the girl, and the lady killed it. His year old lab turned up dead on this Sunday past. He suspects her having poisoned it. She wants to marry him, and he said he burned their application along with his dog’s records. Whoa! I told him she’s possessed, that the dogs are his allies. I’m reminded of the wonderful story Paulo told about the road with the two gates to heaven and hell. Its weird, but it seems God put him in her path to help her. He said he’s supposed to go get a new application today, and I urged him to get the wrong one or burn it again, anything to stall her. It’ll look different soon, I said.
Thanks,
Jay

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Marie-Christine October 16, 2009 at 9:40 am

“L’homme – individu est essentiellement famille, tribu, nation. Tandis que l’humanite elle, n’a pas encore trouve autour de soi d’autres humanites pour se pencher sur ell et lui expliquer ou elle va.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The man – individual is essentially family, tribal, nation, As for humanity it has not yet found around itself other humanities to lean on it and explain to it where it is going.”

I believe that where lies most of our problems.

I love you Paulo
Muito obrigada por tudo. Sempre
Beijos
Marie-Christine

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Liina.L October 15, 2009 at 10:38 pm

Well, it aint exactly pretty.

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Alexandra October 16, 2009 at 7:07 am

Ohh my Go. What have you written above ??? You are pretty. And if you were not, would be ok, for here we dont have a beauty contest, I guess so. Nice songs, you really make me happier. Just please forget the ideas you not pretty. I could say same, but I wont, because we are all pretty, in our unique way, and more, beauty comes from inside. You are good hearted, so, nicer . Take care
Love
Alexandra

candieb October 16, 2009 at 10:41 am

You have a great voice Liina,so stop saying that!:)

Paula October 15, 2009 at 5:42 pm

Yannis,

So sorry if you are upset by what I said, but that upset is your entitlement if you so desire. I too was upset by your response to Anca who feels that the quote, which you do not much like, serves as a reminder for her and is useful to her remembering what is important.
The statements you made to her sounded like a reprimand and an admonishment that her thinking was wrong. At least that is how it sounded to me and I quote….

“But the past can touch you and its grip is fierce! Imagine how an adult will react to his environment, if he has learnt as a child that whatever he does, he will not succeed.

And the future is in front of us, justifying those researchs that pinpoint that “stress” kills everyday plenty of our fellowmen.

I am sorry to say that, but quotes cannot heal us.”

To me this sounds angry and the statement at the end comes across to me that you are informing her that quotes can not do anything for her so give it up, and just because because the past can “But the past can touch you and its grip is fierce!” does not mean that it will be everyone’s experience yet you sound as if it is a warning that she better quit believing in her fairytale quotes as the demons of the past are out to get her and are biting at her heels and about to get her and rip her to shreds.
“Quotes cannot heal us” is a definite statement not an opinion and “But the past can touch you and its grip is fierce!” is also a definite and a warning with no shadow of inference that it is your experience or opinion. Sorry if I read it other than you intended, but perhaps you should include that it has been you experience or it is your thoughts or opinion that this is the way it can be instead of writing as if you state facts. Your reality is no one else’s reality and we cant read your mind or intent so clarity is key to clear interpretation of your statement.
I apologize for my harshness, I am quick to defend if I perceive someone is being belittled or berated for their point of view. I too use quotes as mental reminders of how I am changing my old conditioning and creating a better life and person for myself and I am very fiercely mothering even to people I do not know when I feel compelled to defend them. Like a lioness with her cub. I would defend you just as quickly and fiercely if I felt you were being treated badly. The past should be full of lessons learned and hopefully we need not repeat any of them, including this one.
Love sincerely,
Paula

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devil October 16, 2009 at 7:16 am

Hi paulo

sorry for buttinging in, i am not aware of the context in which u wrote this, other than what u have written. but ceratin things are of general nature like
1. anyone who says anything here, is their personal opinion, ain’t it. do we need to specifically say that.

2. Quotes help us, but quotes alone cannot help us, we need to continuously stive to live teh life indicated by these quotes.

love
devil

Yannis October 18, 2009 at 2:05 am

Paula, I cannot understand you AT ALL. You give me the impression that you just read my posts very fast and just jumped to an answer.

Firstly, if you want a reply from me, your answer must be to my post. This is NOT a rebuke. Just a suggestion.

Devil, actually, said what I said in my previous post. But you don’t seem to understand that! Why? We just said our opinion; nothing more or less.

You are right that if I get upset from something, it is my problem and it is my feelings that start coming up. The same goes for everyone, as well…

But the fact that some people may take what I write in a wrong way (like you did) shouldn’t be an obstacle to me to “speak freely”. What should I do? Stay inside a cage and keep my mouth shut?

From the other hand, other people could benefit from what I wrote.

Why did you want to defend someone? This is a free blog (of course, with no insults included). If Anca had a problem or a disagreement, SHE should have written to me,…NOT YOU.

How can you possibly know HOW SHE FELT?

From the way you write, you give the impression that you comprehend some things deeper (if you recall, I said that I agreed with most of your post). But, implying that you understand the way others feel, is undue. You cannot do that! How can you possibly know how I or Anca or Coelho could feel about the same situation or perceive an experience?

Maybe what you don’t like about me is the way I say something. But, this is true: I don’t go around, making circles and then reach a conclusion. I say what I believe and that’s it. No fancy words (unless they come naturally), no politeness, no rudeness…

Don’t apologize for what you said to me. This is your way of acting.

“Apologize” means that you see that I am right and you are wrong and you make your first step of changing your way of acting by starting with me.

BUT, if you still think I am wrong, why would you apologize? You didn’t insult me or called me names.

The REALLY BAD thing is that you jumped to TOO MANY CONCLUSIONS about me, my past and my experiences. I wrote something, I claimed something else about the past and suddenly…Yannis is this and Yannis has felt that and Yannis doesn’t comprehend the other…

NO! I have my life experience (like everybody here) and then I noticed and paid attention to the things that seemed important to me.

To be honest, I don’t care that much if someone else sees me wrong and believes something unreal for me. But, I do prefer to be told what someone believes about me. Then, I have the chance to see if I am mistaken and consequently learn from the other.

As I said, God equipped us with sensors to perceive messages. Our heart, our brain, our feelings. God doesn’t usually descend on Earth to give lessons, so everybody else around me (and his/her opinion) is the best that can happen to me to help me improve myself.

maria emilia October 15, 2009 at 2:29 pm

A vida é curta então temos que identificar o que é realmente importante para nós. Palavras o vento leva mas algumas são ingratas deixam marcas essas temos que deixar para trás e só ouvir as que vem do coração.

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Den Rod October 16, 2009 at 2:15 am

Prezada Maria Emilia,

O vento também pode levar embora as marcas…
e trazer palavras bonitas que você nem imagina…

Pode fazer você ir com ele… fé…

Aceita um café!

Dances With Crayons October 15, 2009 at 4:17 am

Thinking about a way to say Thank You, express Gratitude and Love to everyone and everything.

Decided to share a song that I loved since it was born:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ALElMLpRA

Return To Innocence, by Enigma

Lyrics :

Love, devotion
Feeling, emotion
Love, devotion
Feeling, emotion

Don’t be afraid to be weak
Don’t be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart, my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence

If you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself, don’t hide
Just believe in destiny
Don’t care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don’t give up and use the chance
To return to innocence

That’s not the beginning of the end
That’s the return to yourself
The return to innocence

Don’t care what people say
Follow just your own way
Don’t give up, don’t give up
To return, to return to innocence

If you want, then laugh
If you must, then cry
Be yourself, don’t hide
Just believe in destiny

Songwriters: Cretu, Michael

With Love and Gratitude, Jane : ) xo

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Catherine E.A. October 16, 2009 at 5:36 pm

Thankyou – it’s nice to be reminded about old songs..
I remember this unusual vocal chorus/harmonies of this song well now. Have you listened to Enya,.. or Adiemus by Karl Jenkins ? I think you might enjoy them also ;o)

Nancy October 16, 2009 at 10:50 pm

Thanks Jane. I also enjoy listening to “The Return to Innocence”.
Peace.

Dances With Crayons October 17, 2009 at 4:04 am

You’re very welcome : )
Love Enya’s songs and will now listen to Adiemus, how exciting, thank you, very much appreciated!!

Love, Jane : ) xo

Elisangela October 15, 2009 at 3:06 am

A vida é curta, sim, mas para as palavras dita do coração sempre haverá tempo.
Cadê a esperança desse homem tão inteligente, pois esta frase é de uma pessoa sem esperança.

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sea October 15, 2009 at 3:01 am

very true,(though sometimes we can’t put into words how we feel or what we want to say)but life has given us so much to be able to express them fully. in return life is also asking from us to live passionately.

good morning thursday! enjoy God’s peace!

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Elaine Stevens October 15, 2009 at 2:46 am

Namaste,
The problem is that when I’m in a conversation with someone, the real important things I want to say don’t even come to mind until I’m home, in bed and reliving the conversation in my mind. This is why I write. :-)

Love to you

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sea October 15, 2009 at 6:03 am

same here also sometimes..but on the next time we meet i make sure that he/she hears what i wanted to say ^^

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