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by Paulo Coelho on December 6, 2009

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Alexandra July 10, 2009 at 8:53 am

A song that fits my feelings today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eReKDlr_bCs

samina July 10, 2009 at 12:46 am

Just a couple of things to share with you all..

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Kahlil Gibran

Oh and watching Christian the lion always leaves me warm inside and reminds me that there’s something bigger happening out there in the universe…something I might not understand for quite a while.

Christian the lion- the story

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-452820/Christian-lion-lived-London-living-room.html

Let’s not forget the man who helped Christian create a life in the wild

http://www.georgeadamson.org/preserve

Flora July 9, 2009 at 11:13 pm

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings

John July 10, 2009 at 10:04 am

Hey Flora

I have been reading this blog for some time and for the most part I read without comment.

I want to comment on your entry though – I think that is amazing and possibly the best entry I have ever read.

Really cool.

Regards

John

Marlene July 10, 2009 at 12:21 pm

I agree, only art( in this case poetry) can touch the fragile nature of the subject…Regards to you ,.
Marlene

Abiyogini July 11, 2009 at 12:53 pm

it is such a touching poem…speaks directly to my soul:-)….

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_café July 9, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Tomorrow I’ll go to Vienna to meet me with some old friends and to know in person to another myspace/facebook friend. And I’m happy for that.

rosa de los vientos July 12, 2009 at 3:27 pm

Estupendo Mirian espero que nos cuentes y nos enseñes tus fotos.
Un beso

Vanuza July 9, 2009 at 10:10 pm

Quando Deus se encolerizou e quis destruir o “povo eleito” por adorarem o bezerro dourado, Moisés se interpôs e pediu clemência ao Criador, não pode entrar na Terra Prometida.
Os bezerros estão aí, sendo idolatrados e a Terra dos nossos sonhos está cada vez mais triste.
Beijos, amigo!!!

Ilva Asote July 9, 2009 at 7:05 pm

For those who can read Russian here are some links to read more:
http://www.ves.lv/article/78623
http://www.ves.lv/article/85946

Thank you, Neela! :)

Jeanne July 9, 2009 at 6:10 pm

A reply to the recent Warrior of Light question “What is happiness?” I think I am most happy when I think “I love this!” And It can happen any time, at any moment. Just really loving what is. I feel most happy when I can be in that place. Several months ago I had a bag of garbage in my hand. As I dropped it into the garbage can I thought “I love this!” A complete acceptance and love of the moment – wonderful. To me that is happiness – to love the moment whatever it holds.

Heart July 9, 2009 at 4:06 pm

Dear Savita,

Just to answer your question. I found the ‘priestess’ just by Google your name. The picture reminds me much of the little girl on the poster of Les Miserables. And, by the way. You have to learn to take a compliment just by saying; ‘Thank you’, instead of excusing your talents. I meant what I complimented you for. Very sweet image. Priestess? That one I have to think about :)

Love you,
Heart

Savita Vega July 9, 2009 at 6:36 pm

Advice taken. Thanks, Heart!

Alexandra July 9, 2009 at 4:05 pm

Dear friends, terrible things happens in sea shore resorts in my country… Just imagine after a routine control, inspectors found out two boxers, means male underwear near the food and dishes in a ” restaurant”… After inquiry, the cook and personal admitted they used the underwear instead of sponge for washing dishes…lol

Samya July 9, 2009 at 2:53 pm

The best people in our lives we cannot recognise. The best people in our lives are so much in our lives we do not realise their immense power in making us happy. Instead we run after mirages, and people who we are taught to think as powerful. We try to become powerful, we fear to become a nobody, yet the best people in our lives are there, always there, nobodies to the world, at one with the world, their selves as pure as nothingness and as immense as the immenseness of the infinite universe with which they are one.

The best people are so common. The best people are everywhere, because they are nobodies and nobodies are everywhere while somebodies hold their high and mighty places. The best people are always there, smiling at as, ready to talk with us, to us and open up to us, to rid us of power, and to give us power.

Let’s become the best people.

“What is the lotus bud come out of water?” asks the master
“Lotus leaves,” replies the wise student.
The master smiles.

Bojan July 8, 2009 at 11:23 pm

some thoughts:

spread your angel wings. you know you have them :)

clear the water with your mind before you drink it. Imagine drinking from the crystal clear spring in the forest.

first time you act upon your instinct, and that is why you succeed. next time you
try live up to the first try, you think you have to best it and that is why you fail.
dont try, just listen to you instinct. in fact, you will rather succeed by trying to fail :).
no try to fail, that is fun :)

You and your love will reach same freq, there will be Synchronized Energy eXchange, you are on the same level as your girlfrined.

Stop trying so hard, then you will succed.

If it is supposed to be with you it will be back, to you.

what do you want to do? do it NOW. Do not postpone it. Read that book NOW. Make that trip NOW.
ask that girl out NOW.

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_café July 8, 2009 at 10:14 pm

Hello everybody!
Have a nice day!

Melanie July 8, 2009 at 9:25 pm

I would just like to share a poem I wrote last year. I was also lucky enough that my boyfriend liked it enough to pen music to it and turn it into a song. As Warrior’s of Light I hope you like the poem :)

Blessings
Melanie
x

Falsehood of Fools

Raphael considers Orion,
and lets out a fertile breath.
The pride of humanity expires,
a consensus reality is all that is left.
~~~
The Falsehood of Fools
and charisma of thieves,
envelop chaste skulls,
cursed and revealed.
~~~
Tormented, Raphael fills a chalice,
an offering of intuition enfolds,
and fills a cauldron of emerald green,
a blue print to heal old souls.
~~~
A fecund gift of enlightenment,
he awakens from the unknown.
The veil of false consciousness lifts,
as the falsehood of fools are shown.
~~~
The falsehood of fools,
and charisma of thieves,
released from chaste skulls,
sated and healed.
~~~
Raphael sits and looks up,
and considers Orion in muse.
Raphael lets out a fertile breath,
as the consensus reality diffused.

costea adian July 8, 2009 at 3:46 pm

nu stiu ce se intampla..viata mea incepe sa se schimbe..furtuna aceasta care tocmai a venit a inceput sa ma stropeasca cu multa tristete si suferinta..in jurull me nu exista fericire,totul este schimbat.imi aduc aminte de momentele placute traite langa tine,dar nu inteleg de ce sunt inconjurat de lacrimi.nu stiu unde este speranta,nu stiu unde a disparut..trupul meu tremura,sufletul meu pare ca a inghetat,iar inima mea pregateste ultimele aruncari…ultimele batai.dar eu nu vreau sa renunt,nu vreau sa ma dau batut.stiu ca te pot gasi,stiu ca mai pot intalni inca o data acel zambet nemuritor.imi doresc sa te mai ating,sa te mai iubesc macar pentru cateva clipe…nu ma dau batut,nu pot renunta..deoarece tu esti un vis etern,esti drumul unic al vietii mele..visul meu se transforma intr-o realitate minunate numai atunci cand sunt langa tine.tu esti resiratia unui sistem complex bazat pe iubire,credinta,adevar si speranta…nu-mi doresc ca acest sistem sa inceteze,deoarece atunci adevarata iubire va muri..nu cred in finalul iubirii..nu cred ca viata mea va inceta inainte de a te gasi…pentru tine,,sufletul meu este in stare sa depaseasca orice obstaclo..pentru tine,pentru iubire..nu stiu exxact ce este iubirea,dar stiu ca ea se afla in cele mai minunate locuri,,stiu ca se in tine.iubirea este stralucirea ce izvoraste din limpezimea ochilor tai,ea este caldura primita prin atingeri nevinovate.da,iubirea esteclipa unica de magie…http://adikady2009.blogspot.com/
http://adikady.forumgratuit.ro/forum.htm

Savita Vega July 8, 2009 at 3:43 pm

Since this week’s topic is soulmates, I wanted to share with you all this collage I created several years ago. I guess you could say, it is my visual definition of “soulmates”:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30544704&l=7c61330065&id=1294597589

Much Love,
Savita

Gabriela Abalo July 8, 2009 at 5:17 pm

Great work Savita!!

love
Gabi

Alexandra July 8, 2009 at 5:31 pm

Thank you dear Savita. Was interesting… Bit reminds me some of Christina work, wife of Paulo Coelho, about love.
Love
Alexandra

Flora July 9, 2009 at 10:41 pm

Hi Savita, i think your work is very interesting, and also beautifully done, but it is a little bit disturbing for me to look at… Maybe because i don´t identify Heart the organ with Heart as the symbol for love. i cant help the feeling that these hearts are “blind for life”. The heart as organ keeps the whole body vital, but two hearts connected with nothing around… what do those keep vital? in order to function they dont really need each other and without a body their connection seems a bit senseless. Love is life, all the little things around, all the other organs and even the smallest cells that are fed.
Don´t get me wrong, i do like your work as a piece of art, it is very expressive. i just thought i will share with you what i see in it, since it may be useful to you for what´s behind the expression. Look into if You like.

Love
Flora

Alexandra July 8, 2009 at 3:16 pm

Internet Love
by caffrey

WE CHATTED FOR FUN ON THE INTERNET SITE
DO YOU THINK WE WILL MEET! WELL WE JUST MIGHT
LITTLE DID WE KNOW WHEN WE FIRST MET
FATE PLAYED IT’S PART,THE SCENE WAS SET
I LOOKED AT YOU AND YOU GAVE ME A SMILE
WE HAD A DRINK AND CHATTED FOR A WHILE
WE GOT ON WELL I FELT SO AT EASE
YOU WANTED TO MEET AGAIN I THOUGHT YES PLEASE
WE MET AGAIN ON THE THIRD TIME WE KNEW
THE FEELINGS WE HAD WERE OBVIOUSLY TRUE
A NIGHT ALONE WITH A STOLEN KISS
WE MADE LOVE TOGETHER OH WHAT BLISS
AS TIME GOES ON THESE FEELINGS GROW STRONGER
LOVING SO PASSIONATE DEEPER AND LONGER

Gabriela Abalo July 8, 2009 at 5:19 pm

nice Alexandra, thank u for sharing

Ema July 8, 2009 at 2:37 pm

Hi
Paulo please tell us something about your lived life as a hippy =)

kisses
Emma

Catherine July 8, 2009 at 1:54 pm

The Net of Light

“Women all over the world are passing on the Grandmothers’ Empowerment to women and Cloak of Comfort to men. ”

The Grandmothers say,
“Each person is a point on the great Net of Light and each point of light forms a network to which all life is connected. Yin and yang have now begun to shift and during these difficult times, the Net of Light will hold the earth together. Meditate on the Net of Light; use it to support one another, to support the earth, and to strengthen the energy of yin on the planet. Know the reality of this Net, for by knowing it and being at one with it, you will do untold good.”

http://grandmothersspeak.com/netoflight.php

Ashwini July 8, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Dear All

I wish to share a pdf file with you all – where do i post it

Paulo Coelho July 8, 2009 at 1:53 pm

put a link to the pdf here

Gabriela Abalo July 8, 2009 at 9:39 am

Hi all,
I’m back from my trip to the bush… had a wonderful time!

Today I want to share with all of you an excerpt from one of my short stories on unconditional love….

………
A peaceful smile dresses his old face when with his deep masculine voice he says: “My childhood experience has made me a strong man, I have gone through horrible things but I have survived. My mother’s last words embedded in my heart kept me from falling into despair, hate and revenge. I could never betray her example of unconditional love. Even when facing dead she saw beyond her executors’ criminal acts. She saw their struggling souls and their unconsciousness, killing people just because they did not believe in the same God. She was aware that her sacrifice and the one of many others was a must, as human kind usually requires extremes to react. The victims and the victimizers where all part of the big plan, where each part was teaching humanity “what to be” and “what not to be”
……..

If you would like to read the whole story please check my blog at: http://gabrielaabalo.blogspot.com

Love and light to all the Warriors of Light
Gabi

aditya damarwulan July 8, 2009 at 6:44 am

Dear Mr. Coelho

Thank you for writing The Alchemist and Veronika Decides to Die and other books, because of those books, I was able to find my Personal Legend. You are my inspiration. I love you so much. I hope I can see you later in my life. Best wishes and have a good life.

Aditya Damarwulan

Kimg Jinhee July 8, 2009 at 3:04 am

I read your answer for qustion of korean people on naver. I can’t speak english well. But How much affected that your all answer & writing. I like yon so much. And deep down in the heart Thank you.

kealan July 8, 2009 at 12:26 am

The blog is cool again! More time to think and relax while doing it.

atnot July 7, 2009 at 10:06 pm

I love this site. Im in a very intense studying period right now, sucking up and digesting wise words from many places. I could use some advise on how to act in life but starts to realise I have to seek within myself and follow my own truth.

Alexandra July 7, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Thank you…I loved it. Take care
Love
Alexandra

Alexandra July 7, 2009 at 8:49 am

Lovely song for all warriors of light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye1Vys6umT0

Anulal July 7, 2009 at 6:03 am

I saw the until then unseen breeze,

I heard the imaginary birds,

I saw the stars, shine in day light,

I heard the waves in the distant ocean of sand.

What happened to my world? I kept asking,

A deflection or a new scheme-

Of my eyes to see things or is it a dream!

Is it a life or lifelessness, I kept wondering.

As I am taught that no one can see breeze,

As I am aware that no imaginary birds,

Or no stars embellish the world, in daytime.

No waves of sand will be heard, I wondered.

It was hard to keep my senses normal,

It equals naught if, try to be calm,

On these, all said, a causeless abnormality,

I too thought, until I wrote, I am in love and I love you.

http://anu-lal.blogspot.com/

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_café July 6, 2009 at 10:05 pm

The last week I begin a belly dance course. I did one two years ago but I only remeber that’s so fun. When we beggin was really strange because I don’t rmeember that the class was like this. We run and play like children to heat(? to prepare our bodys to dance). Then we beggin to dance with a drum musics and our teacher talk about energy, the energy inside us… and I thought in The wich of Portobello.
This class was so fun and I’m wishing do the next class…
PS. I just search if belly dance it’s correct and in spanish we say “Danza del vientre”. The literal translation it’s “solar’s dance”. It’s curious for me because the navel it’s the center of the “solar” and the sun it’s the center of the “solar sistem”…
It’s only a thought :-)

Joanna Garrett July 6, 2009 at 9:34 pm

Dear Paulo, Proverbs says that “As a face is to water, so is the heart of a person to another person.” I read your book The Alchemist over the weekend hoping to discover the voice of Yeshua and The Magdalene, and it’s there – the voice, the dialogue. I picked up The Pilgrimage and I hear the voice again. The love that is expressed as a consuming fire, could it be personified and immortalized through these two historical characters, and what would that dialogue look like……how could it be expressed in words that it might come to life through film?

Joanna

costea adian July 6, 2009 at 9:19 pm

my life is a travel diary for knowledge and happiness, because in the pages of this journal is my fermecat.viata your face is an arrow that can traverses a space on the infinite iubirii.stiu but I need a bow and someone manuiasca was very good bow and arrow is my sageata.viata, archery is the time and space in this world I am … and you’re the only one who can wield these weapons nemortale love … love gives me wings to penetrate through your soul . he is my life pass paradise, is clear proof of the existence of love in this univers.arma nemortala for love! yes, here also there as weapons, even if pamantenii not believe in their existence … time and space are some arme.da , love is an exam, is a battle for our souls that we meet the land of life .. time and space are weapons designed to destroy the love between two suflete.dar fail, because true love which is eternal, it is indragostiti.chiar if those two people who love there is a distance, even when everything seems lost in the diversity of the mountains, a campiiilor and is podisurilor.spatiul gun can not hurt two people linked by a bond called iubire.timpul gets passed to those who live always together … he can not kill, can not even rani.stiu, maybe nobody is really crede.dar .. man invented time, he created spatiul.dar, for those who I do not believe in love, time and space are some arme.poate that all were tired of my so unnecessary, but there’s more … there are only a few days, then you should leave, leave for tai.voi eyes always leave everything I had in the world you leave acesta.imi and body, because we no longer need el.intotdeauna this body, which is in my soul, was always one step back .. .. my body was an obstacle to the life neuitat.nu can leave pleasant memories lived near tine.nu can leave the sacred moments of love .. I can not, but neither my doresc.imi want to spend those moments of the trip with you … I want to look your eyes just once .. I rubbing your soul and your body look the shadow … then when the last second will die, I will look .. . I will touch your smile goddess of the universe .. then you pleca.stiu, I think all this time … are covered by a fire of fear killer .. my fear of pain to be so free necunoasterii in land, so lonely … shimmy, shimmy, and I can only opri.nu know what to do, not stiu.as despartire want it to be like a sunrise, or maybe a apus.imi not want to cry, I do not want to live suferi.vreau continued to smile, because your way in this world is in a stunning dance of love … because my heart so that is only good for you, you smile. When you’re happy, everything around me is so frumos.nu can describe this wonderful situation, because there were words invented for such moments magie.da, iubireea is a moment of eternal love felt and expressed in an infinite space .. when love cake creates two souls in pairs, arms disappear, pretending to favorable conditions of life. http://adikady2009.blogspot.com
http://adikady.forumgratuit.ro/forum.htm

Savita Vega July 6, 2009 at 4:32 pm

Just wanted to share this with you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhckhRdPMYo

Alexandra July 7, 2009 at 7:18 am

Thanks, was interesting. I see you prepared in about art . Do you have anything for us to see, some of your own work? If you do have talent, you could write a book and draw your pictures too, as I saw in a book from Kipling.
Love
Alexandra

Heart July 6, 2009 at 3:32 pm

http://www.richardwiseman.com/

This popular professor recently conducted an American experiment with a group of priests, who had just prepared a speech about the Samaritan who showed mercy to the man in Jericho. When they were told to walk a short distance, half of the group walked straight past a man laying on the ground outside the church. When the priests were told to hurry, 90% of them passed the person in need. So, Wiseman concludes, they don’t practice what they preach. Not that any other professions would have done better. What do you think, who are kind and helpful to injured human beings, or human beings in need? (PS Wiseman as you will see on this web site, is also doing a study on Twitter).

aditya July 9, 2009 at 5:29 am

Interesting heart !

they don’t practice what they preach ! these preints are like books, you can learn from them, but they themselves are quite asleep. It is one in a million / billion ? who decides to wake up , sleep appearing so comforting to most.

With preists the problem is more compounded, because they preach, because others look upto them for guidance, they start feeling they are awakened, worse than sleep is a dream in which one considers oneself awaken, hence no need to make efforts to get up.

nice sharing, heart.

love
aditya

Savita Vega July 9, 2009 at 6:40 pm

Thanks for the link! I looked him up. Great stuff!

RO July 6, 2009 at 8:21 am

From high glacier in the mountain
drop a drop falling to form a
stream
a few drops will form the river
a few more will form the sea

Yajna July 6, 2009 at 3:43 am

Aditya,

That entry was beautiful. I loved it. Love is decision, and I’ve experienced this. The only problem is both parties have to decide on it. It’s really pointless and can really finish someone when only one person makes the effort. I’ve come to realise that many people won’t make the effort. Many people aren’t right for you. But you know, you’ll love them nonetheless, and even though you often know things are broken, you still love them. That’s the oddest thing about love. People do unbelievable things for love, do even more unbelievable things to the ones they love, yet we all still love. Love is the most messed up, most remarkable thing on this planet. Figures, God made it to confuse us. Lol.

Lots of love,
Yajna

Dances with Crayons,

I know exactly how you feel. I’ve felt it many times. Tell me something, where are you from? I’m from South Africa and many of those children you’re talking about are in my country, hungry and cold right now. A few years ago, I moved to a different city to study. I used to do a fair amount of charity work with my dad back home, but upon enrolling in university, i neglected the work not knowing where to start and how to settle. I kept telling myself, when I’m older, I’ll have the great plan to build this and help that, and the truth is, I never did much in those two years. One day I realised that I don’t actually need to wait until I qualify to make a difference. I should start now, as broke as I am to save the world, I sure am not helpless. So I went searching, and I found a group of people who had the same ideas, and I found the home I wanted to help build up. I’m not nearly done helping them, nor are they stable yet, but they’ve come along way, and watching them grow and getting others to help me help them, made me realise my true calling. I’m here to help. Not here to save the world, but just make a difference large enough to make people think, make people smile, give people hope. So to cut my long story short, I’d like to advise you to put yourself out there, find something in your community, make a plan and make it work. No one’s helpless. If there’s a will, there’s a way.. And I have faith you can do it :)

Lots of love
Yajna

aditya July 6, 2009 at 1:22 pm

HI Yagna

If u take possesiveness out of love, then there seems to be no problem. then love which indeed appears all messed up, recahes its pristine peaks of pure love.

about the rest of your post addressed to Dances..

yes that is teh way, but try to do anything eveven slightly diffrent and u face so much opposition, so much ego hassels, that a warriors throat dries up at times and he is left gasping for a mouthful of water, yet that is the combat and it’s called a combat for that reaosn precisely. breaks, periods of rest are as important as the efforts.

love
aditya

Ilva Asote July 5, 2009 at 8:59 pm

To White Indian: I send you the warmest smile this evening! We do love you with all your white fingers and white cheeks!

Olive Preston July 5, 2009 at 8:42 pm

White Indian,

you have truly taken one of the most difficult, yet, most astoundingly courageous steps towards self-fulfillment and enlightment.. There’s nothing like saving yourself with the encouragement of others.. So, I’ll be Wilson… We all can be Wilson..

Olive

A White Indian July 5, 2009 at 5:19 pm

Silence is dangerous. Silence terrifies people most. Silence is scary and I think it is not black. People normally relate scary things with black color -a black night, a black ghost, a black day, a black magic, a black dog…

Do you know there are a few white things which are scary or we think they are scary? Silence is one of them and ……

And there is a well known disease named as vitiligo alias leucoderma. This disease decreases melanins from your skin and keen on making you white until you turned into a white person.

Ever noticed anyone with white lips or white fingers or white cheeks.. Doesn’t they look scary…… see, even white is scary…

I call myself ‘A White Indian’ and I am ‘White’ due to this disease. I have always felt and seen a different world. A world where people get terrified just looking at me. A world which should be for me but its not……

I am silent and white..a deadly scary combination. Actually I am made of a few different characters. They live somewhere inside me. They are silent and never speak. They love to observe things happening around but never speak. They are dying..each one of them and I am no more going to let this happen.

So this blog is for them..this blog is a place where they would be writing..they would be speaking without thinking of any worldly rules and obligations..they would be breathing and spitting their thoughts out..

They are just looking for their ‘Wilson’ (a character in Cast Away). Is there any??

karen July 5, 2009 at 10:26 pm

Silence is golden, you know the saying. This reminds me of albinos, they can certainly look scary. But you have an interesting concept there. Not knowing someone’s thoughts creates an air of mystery which can sometimes be scary and suspicious.

We need to exercise our freedom of speech and this blog is a great place for that!

aditya July 9, 2009 at 5:39 am

Silence is a blessing, only when it comes on its own voliattion, it is not result of fear of some punishement.

came across a very interesting quote from one grand lade on indian Cinema Sabana Azami, she is invitted to a UN Conference on Violence against. About the violence aginst Afghan Women ( afterall they are the mothers of the proud Afgan people, prior to their talibanisation, i ualways used to look up to people of Afghan as truthful, god fearing people, strong and reday to help the weak ).. Sabana Azami says

“SILENCE IS VIOLENCE” when that silnce prevails even in face of attrocities against woman in afganista, or for that matter any attrocity anywahere in the world.

an white indian, come out of this stupid self pity and start treating yourself with respect. i know a person, very close to me who is also white, not completely and that is worse as it leaves white patches of various sizes all over one’s body, about 60-70 %. And the dignity with his that person has carried himslef, has been a becon to a whole lot of younger people.

love
aditya

Catherine July 5, 2009 at 1:46 pm

I am wondering where the daily poet blogger has disappeared to… not good with names…

aditya July 6, 2009 at 1:24 pm

santosh kalwar ? he said he is going high up in himalaays, hope he is fine with the monsoon rains and all!

love
aditya

Abhisek Ghosh (Alex Vega 006) July 4, 2009 at 7:54 am

Dear Paulo Coelho,

I don’t know how much I owe you as your book ‘Alchemist’ has transformed me into a bookworm and has allowed me to go deep inside the ocean of knowledge and cherish and most importantly feed my soul.

I always cherish reading your books as it’s always a learning adventure.Currently, I am reading ‘Brida’ and it just solved my recent inner struggles. I have also read ‘Zahir’ and Pilgrimage will be the next read.

After William Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Rabindranath Tagore, you, Paulo Coelho, are my favourite writer.
Hope you find many more ‘white feathers’ and give us even more beautiful reading hours that feeds the soul.

Alexandra July 4, 2009 at 7:48 am

My dog loves birds…
Because not eat all the food, so invites birds to take it…Thats why now so many birds in my garden, coming to breakfast, dinner or lunch at
Neras restaurant…Nera is my dog…

aditya July 4, 2009 at 6:53 am

HI freinds !

it’s sad what has happned with this blog, if it’s really about too much to handle specially for paulo and moderators, we can understand.

here is something interesting about MARRIAGE, INFIDILITY, MONOGAMY, POLYGAMY. in recet past we had a discussion about this on this very blog, thought it would be nice to share it with you people.

love
aditya

“AM I WITH A RIGHT PARTNER ”

>>> Aditya Choudhary 03/07/2009 15:30 >>>
some gyan for you !

please look at my ‘killer’ comments right at bottom in bolt capitals of course, and what say u !

>>> Vineet Wason 03/07/2009 01:57 >>>
Am I with a right partner? – Nice Article

During a seminar, a woman asked,” How do I know if I am with the right
person?” the author then noticed that there was a large man sitting next
to her so he said, “It depends. Is that your partner?” In all
seriousness, she answered “How do you know?” Let me answer this question
because the chances are good that it’s weighing on your mind replied the
author. Here’s the answer.

Every relationship has a cycle…In the beginning; you fall in love with
your partner. You anticipate their calls, want their touch, and like
their idiosyncrasies. Falling in love wasn’t hard. In fact, it was a
completely natural and spontaneous experience. You didn’t have to DO
anything. That’s why it’s called “falling” in love.

People in love sometimes say, “I was swept of my feet.” Picture the
expression. It implies that you were just standing there; doing nothing,
and then something happened TO YOU. Falling in love is a passive and
spontaneous experience. But after a few months or years of being
together, the euphoria of love fades. It’s a natural cycle of EVERY
relationship. Slowly but surely, phone calls become a bother (if they
come at all), touch is not always welcome (when it happens), and your
spouse’s idiosyncrasies, instead of being cute, drive you nuts. The
symptoms of this stage vary with every relationship; you will notice a
dramatic difference between the initial stage when you were in love and a
much duller or even angry subsequent stage. At this point, you and/or
your partner might start asking, “Am I with the right person?” And as you
reflect on the euphoria of the love you once had, you may begin to desire
that experience with someone else. This is when relationships breakdown.

The key to succeeding in a relationship is not finding the right person;
it’s learning to love the person you found.

People blame their partners for their unhappiness and look outside for
fulfillment. Extramarital fulfillment comes in all shapes and sizes.
Infidelity is the most common. But sometimes people turn to work, a
hobby, a friendship, excessive TV, or abusive substances. But the answer
to this dilemma does NOT lie outside your relationship. It lies within
it. I’m not saying that you couldn’t fall in love with someone else. You
could. And TEMPORARILY you’d feel better. But you’d be in the same
situation a few years later. Because (listen carefully to this): The key
to succeeding in a relationship is not finding the right person; it’s
learning to love the person you found.

SUSTAINING love is not a passive or spontaneous experience. You have to
work on it day in and day out. It takes time, effort, and energy. And
most importantly, it demands WISDOM. You have to know WHAT TO DO to make
it work. Make no mistake about it. Love is NOT a mystery. There are
specific things you can do (with or without your partner). Just as there
are physical laws of the universe (such as gravity), there are also laws
for relationships. If you know and apply these laws, the results are
predictable. Love is therefore a “decision”. Not just a feeling.

Remember this always: God determines who walks into your life. It is up
to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you
refuse to let GO!!

my expert comments -

“Love is therefore a “decision”. Not just a feeling.”

heh ! hey hey ! it’s a decision – but why should one take such a decision, because love is what we are here to discover, and it is actually found within you only, other is just a media. nature brings one to the place where lust leads one to love, after that it’s upto you whether u hang on to that love and make it your feeling, so deep that even when u sleep u sleep lovingly, forget about walking ro talking.

Alexandra July 4, 2009 at 3:40 pm

I loved your post now. Brilliant…Thank you.

MIT July 9, 2009 at 1:51 pm

It is true what you say. For love does not end it is important not to strangle her lover, leaving space between the relationship and are sometimes unpredictable. But more important don’t feel fear to possibility to lost it.

Thank you,
Maria Isabel

Dances With Crayons July 4, 2009 at 2:32 am

Last weekend at a celebration, guests entered the dimly lit banquet room where background music was softly playing. Fancy dresses, fingernails polished, suits with starched shirts, ties, hair fixed just right. Families and friends gravitated over to side-tables offering finger foods, next meandering to a bar with refreshments, then found a place to sit and talk. I watched as a group of toddlers (ages 1 to 2 years old), without a single word, attracted each other to the dance floor just prior to dinner. One little girl was barefoot, a little boy found a hat to dance with. So sweet, sharing the same space, yet each baby was moving, jumping, or simply swaying in their own, beautiful way. Aware of each other as well as the adults on the sidelines watching with delight, and not bothering.

Somewhere else in the world, children live in poverty, go without clean water and daily bread. Somewhere else, injustice reigns, as another country struggles for basic human rights.

I love this world; thinking about contradictions, about the importance of sharing, even when it seems not enough.
So best to take notice of all around me and be personally accountable – exercising the free will to self-govern. Rather than becoming critical, cynical or waiting for government to act or fix, how can I open my heart every day to help? Sometimes I cry out of frustration, and pray to become more of what I want to see in the universe. To be part of restoring faith in all that is good, remembering the power of Love. I pray to see happy kids everywhere!!
Thank You Paulo, Love to All xo

Alexandra July 4, 2009 at 7:41 am

I dont think you would say the same, if it was u the poor dirty hungry kid…

orly July 3, 2009 at 11:14 pm

today the 3rd of July is a special day for me!
35 years ago- this day i gave birth to my oldest daughter……
i remember that day as one of my vvvvery special day,,,, after a few years a gave birth twice again and i have 3 daughters!!!
and today it is a super special day for me- and i wanted to share it on this blog!
have a nice weekend
orly

Alexandra July 3, 2009 at 5:36 pm

Because I feel bored, I show you one of my writings.
A trip in winter by Alexandra Manescu

Vera started…in the first seconds she didnot realize wether she was in her room.
Was only a nightmare. What was about? She forget it already. But her heart was beating so fast. Thanks God was over. She decided to dress up, had a breakfast, and while drinking a hot tea Nicholas, her brother in law arrived.
Vera was living in an estate of her family, and Nicholas now came to take her in the city, in order to spend some time with the rest of family. They were going in a coach, and Vera put on her heavy fine furs. After all, it was in the middle of the winter, somewhere in The East of Europe. The wind was blowing, and the road covered by thick snow was passing through a forest.
Vera loved the journey, pleasantly talk with Nicholas. But suddenly, the horses get frightened. In few seconds the two lonely travellers understood what was going on. The hungry wolves were behind them. Nicholas hastened as much as he could, Vera said loudly a prayer heard from her mother in her childhood. Wolves were already near them, bold, and ready to take the pray. Then, Nicholas acted only listening to his instinct that longed to survive… He realized a horse, a sacrifice that payed and rescued their life…
The idea worked, and Vera had now only a sad memory. Since that moment, Vera use to go to a nearby monastery, and pray, thanking for the second chance that was given to her.

adriana July 3, 2009 at 4:30 pm

Um mapa interno da Terra*

Um pouco mais sobre o tema Transição Planetária…
Segundo o Manual:
“A matéria só existe para aqueles níveis de consciência que precisam projetar fora de si, a Existência. Condição típica de uma consciência tridimensional”.
Ou ainda:
“Não há nada além de você, no interior do seu sonho”.
Aparentemente estas afirmações têm um cunho egocêntrico. Todavia, se eu não estou enganada, egocêntrico é aquele que olha apenas para si mesmo. E as afirmações não se referem ao olhar e, sim, ao Amor.
Isto me faz lembrar que se “matéria é um estado de consciência”, a própria consciência não é material. Mais ainda, a consciência não está depositada no meu cérebro, tampouco em meu coração. Meu corpo físico não é o núcleo de minha consciência.
Então, onde está minha consciência?
Se a 3ª Dimensão é um espaço para a consciência experimentar a Existência fora de si, minha consciência habita o que está aparentemente fora de mim. Naquilo que ilusoriamente considerei “mundo exterior”. Mais do que estar, minha consciência É o próprio “mundo exterior”. “Para um grande sonho, um grande telão”.
Bem, se o “mundo exterior” é apenas uma aparência… se o que “está fora” é minha consciência projetada em um grande telão tridimensional, então o exercício abaixo é oportuno para o episódio Transição Planetária:
O que é o meu Estados Unidos… que segue sozinho, desprezando as diferenças?
O que são minhas Coréias… separadas e inimigas?
O que é o meu Irã… ressentido, irado, belicoso?
O que é minha França… bela, racional e distante?
O que é minha pobre África… desprezada e faminta?
O que é o meu sábio Egito… esquecido?
O que é meu Tibet… amoroso e espiritual?
O que são minhas praias mornas e seguras… minhas montanhas… altivas e plenas… meus campos floridos… meus desertos?
O que são meu Ocidente e Oriente… divididos e ferozes?
O que é o mapa da Terra?
Quem sabe os Mestres, os Guias, os Seres Multidimensionais e, agora, nosso Corpo de Luz tivessem dito sempre:
“A resposta está no seu interior… olhe para fora!”
E assim, talvez estas energias sutis quisessem dizer:
“Não olhe para a Terra como se sua responsabilidade para com ela fosse resultado de um gesto benevolente, generoso em direção aos outros… olhe para a Terra porque ela é você… sua consciência projetando a Existência fora de si”.
“A resposta não está no jogo… Está no jogador que joga o jogo”.
Se assim for, o episódio Transição Planetária não é um evento externo. Ele é a minha própria transição. E eu preciso escolher se quero um rito de passagem harmônico e suave…
Para isso, preciso perguntar:
”Quantos tsunames, vulcões, terremotos, furacões preciso ainda manifestar?” Ou seria melhor acolher, iluminar e liberar… para expandir a consciência até que ela passe a experimentar a Existência em si mesma?
O mapa da Terra é o mapa de minha consciência… Por isso é que se eu aprender a me Amar estarei, na verdade, Amando a própria Terra ao integrar a Existência…
Ao experimentar a Existência em mim… “Amarás a ti mesmo porque assim estarás Amando o Todo”.
Se eu mudo a mim mesma, mudo o Mundo… porque Você e a Terra Somos Um.
(continua…)
*Extraido de: http://monologoamoroso.blogspot.com

Sou July 3, 2009 at 4:10 pm

Hello.
I am French and sorry my bad English.
I love every your book. They touch me, it are so deep and speak about them even.
You have the words to explain the things of the life that have it does not understand even sometimes.
I read at present ” Manuel of the warrior of light “. Magnificent!
How to remain sincere in a world such as this one.
The man does not want to change and it will not change. It is sad but our passions command us and pull us.
There is not internal fight anymore, the ease is our wish.
That to make?

Bonjour.
Je suis Française et exusez mon mauvais anglais.
J’aime tous vos livre. Ils me touchent, il sont si profond et parlent d’eux même.
Vous avez les mots pour expliquer les choses de la vie que l’ont ne comprend même pas des fois.
Je lis actuellement “Manuel du guerrier de lumière”. Magnifique!
Comment rester sincère dans un monde tel que celui-ci.
L’homme ne veut pas changer et cela ne changera pas.
C’est triste mais nos passions nous commandent et nous entrainent.
Il n’y a plus de combat intérieur, la facilité est notre souhait.
Que faire?

Johanne Mercille July 3, 2009 at 8:36 pm

Salut. La seule personne que je peux changer et souhaite changer, c’est moi. Et cela m’attriste de lire que “l’homme ne veut pas changer et que cela ne changera pas”, car dans ma vie, je vois plutôt le contraire qui se produit. Se changer soi-même change par le fait même ce qui m’entoure, du fait que je m’affirme, fixe mes limites, fait des choix, partage et communique. J’accepte et donne le droit de liberté à celui qui souhaite rester dans ce qu’il est et me réjouis lorsqu’un autre entreprend le voyage au fond de lui-même, pour lui, pas pour. Je porte mon flambeau et reste confiante que les plans divins sont en réalisation. L’important, entreprendre notre voyage. Avec amour, Johanne

costea adian July 3, 2009 at 2:52 pm

chiar nu mai stiam cate zile mai aveam de trait…eram innebunit dupa tine..priveam incanta fiecare rasarit al zambetului tau..soarele se bucura si el de frumusetea ta…stateam acum aproape toata ziua numai langa tine..si era minunat…exploram teritorii necunoscute ale iubirii..descopeream mereu farmecul atingerilor.imi doream sa te iubesc in aceste zile cat pentru urmatorii ani.dar,cu fiecare imbratisare,cu fiecare privire in ochii tai,imi dadeam seama ca nu pot trai fara tine.fara tine,iubirea mea provoaca rani sufletului meu.nu stiu ce o sa fac,dar trebuie sa-mi respect promisiunea…stiam totusi ca moartea mea il va elibera pe acabin din inchisoare..stiam ca eliberarea mea din aceasta lume,l-ar fi eliberat si pe el..pentru ca acest profet,acest intelept,a dorit foarte mult sa ma ajute…si,gandindu-ma ca pe aceasta planeta exista ssi oameni care vor sa ma ajute,imi dau seama ca viata mea e o comoara pe care am reusit sa o deschid..din ea am ales ce mi-am dorit..te-am ales pe tine,iubita mea,pentru ca fara tine,nu as fi avut nimic…apoi am ales un drum pe care sa-l urmez..iar cand am luat tot ce-mi trebuia,am observat ca in cufarul vietii mele se mai afla cevaa..nu erau niste pietre pretioase…era ppulbere de praf,era otrava pentru orice om care ajunge sa atinga aceat praf.stiam ca este periculos,deoarece este o boala care aduce suferinta si tristete..pentru ca in urma mea se aflau multe vieti,iar aceasta comoara urma sa fie gasita de unul dintre ei,am ales sa iau praful din ea…imi parea rau ca acest praf,care apartine destinului meu,sa fac rau unor oameni nevinovati..da,am avut parte si de razboiae,si de momente grele in viata mea..m-am batut cu mine,dar nu am reusit nici sa castig,dar nici sa pierd..am reusit sa imi implinesc destinul ales in momentul deschiderii comorii gasite.am trait mopmente de fericire deplina,am ajuns pe cea mai inalta treapta a vietii,am ajuns sa iubesc cu adevarat,dar am fost si iubit…dar,cea mai importanta realizare este aceea ca am reusit sa-mi respect destinul si sa fiu mandru de viata mea..atunci cand voi parasi aceasta lume,voi fi fericit,pentru ca viata aceasta a meritat orice efort…pentru ca fiecare batalie m-a facut mai puternic,ajutandu-ma sa ajung la tine…. http://adikady2009.blogspot.com/

Johanne Mercille July 3, 2009 at 2:44 pm

To know the path is not sufficient, we must walk in it. (Thierry Janssen, Le travail d’une vie). An efficient way to be sure of our progression is to abandon judgments on ourself and consider all thoughts, positives or negatives, and all actions, separatives or unificatives, as another experience, one more, a way of learning more and to pursue in the spiral that leads us to the center of ourself.

Betsy July 3, 2009 at 2:06 pm

A poem by Hafiz that I always liked.

Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,

“You owe Me”

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the
Whole
Sky.

Nancy July 3, 2009 at 5:51 pm

A lovely poem. It touches the heart and brightens the day.

Margaret July 4, 2009 at 12:41 am

Thank you for that poem. So deep but yet so simple. Just absolutely beautiful.

Alexandra July 3, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Proverb
You cannot eat your cake and have it.

Heart July 3, 2009 at 3:26 pm

True Alexandra. Since you are in the cake mood, here is a grook about Social Mechanism;

When people always
try to take
the very smallest piece of cake
how can it also
always be
that that’s the one
that’s left for me?
(Piet Hein)

Carolena Sabah July 7, 2009 at 8:36 am

Dear Alexandra,

do you mean, you cannot have your cake and eat it too?
or do you mean you cannot eat your cake and have it because once you eat it it will be no more. In the latter case, I disagree because you still have it, in a different form, it has digested inside you but you still have it inside you… if that makes sense.
I don’t really get what you are saying.

Carolena Sabah July 7, 2009 at 8:48 am

oops i posted it in the wrong place, ok so I meant that it just must be your English again… the proverb should read:
you can have your cake and eat it too! :)

Alexandra July 3, 2009 at 6:11 pm

ohhhhhh
Thank you Heart. Was nice.

aditya July 5, 2009 at 9:59 am

merci – as they say in french, thank u.

love
aditya

candieb July 6, 2009 at 11:27 pm

cool,I didn’t know he was up there!Wishing him the best!

Nancy July 7, 2009 at 12:50 am

Annie, Thanks for passing on Thelma’s greetings to us. Malta does not have internet?!(joking). Thelma is leading a good example for us, travel.

Savita Vega July 9, 2009 at 6:41 pm

Missing Thelma. She is always such a solid, calming presence – full of love and light.

Alexandra July 11, 2009 at 8:42 am

Hi Thelma. Have a nice time.
Love
Alexandra

Ilva Asote July 7, 2009 at 11:37 am

I agree with Karen. Silence is a blessing.

Savita Vega July 7, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Thanks, Alexandra! Nice of you to say. My own art is usually just collage, some installation works (mostly altars). I have a book of poetry that I’ve never tried to publish, mostly because it does include visual elements and I’m just not willing to let go of that. For me, the two are integral – the poetry and the visual art that is interwoven throughout the work – but this combination places the book in the “experimental” category, something that most publishers are not willing to look at, much less publish. Maybe I’ll dig some of it up and share a bit of it with you all here. Thanks again for being so kind.

Love,
Savita

Alexandra July 7, 2009 at 4:59 pm

If I had the mean, I would publish your book.

Heart July 8, 2009 at 1:23 am

I saw a collage by you online Savita..I believe it was titled ‘Priestess’. Very sweet picture of a young girl.
Love,
Heart

Savita Vega July 8, 2009 at 11:41 pm

Funny, Heart – how did you see that? If it’s the one I’m thinking of – the series of photos of the young girl with the light coming out of the crown of her head…. Must have been on my facebook. It wasn’t a collage, actually, they were just photos, and I didn’t alter them in any way. They just came out like that, quite by accident. I took the first pic, and it just came out like that, so I kept snapping more and more.

Thanks,
Savita

Alexandra July 8, 2009 at 7:19 am

Noooo…Is a proverb. I just copied . Is about you cant use same thing for two different purpose. See, you cant buy a car and with the money u just have spent u buy a house too…They are gone. IS about that, I was thinking at a person did an ugly gesture. For example, last year a person from Canada without I asked anything offered me a present. But, because I was not exactly what he thought, I mean a perfect slave, he asked me the present back…U got it? After a year he just come with that request.

Savita Vega July 8, 2009 at 3:37 pm

Thank you! Was wondering the same thing myself. Went to facebook and realized that, from there, I could make a particular pic publicly accessible, and then just post the link to it.

whatnext! July 9, 2009 at 7:43 am

Respected Sir,

till now i have lived with the principle and often endured a lot as i believe that the evil can be by being in rules……… they cross all the limits, they break every law of nature and constitution, they make innocent suffer, they do what they please, they still are roaming free, they still are doing the same,…..

they do all the wrong for no reason.
but i have a reason, i am not asking or telling you or anyone, so much inside me wants to be out so i thought to just take my stuff out on an Anonymous will help me to do what i want to in a better way………

i no longer believe in fighting with evil by love, now i will fight with evil by evil…….
seen enough, had enough, all the love have gone,

want to know that the one who so happily slit the throats of other, what they will say when i will slit theirs….

Savita Vega July 8, 2009 at 11:44 pm

That is a huge compliment, Alexandra, though I’m not sure I’m quite worthy of the comparison. Christina is amazing!
Thanks!
Savita

THELMA July 9, 2009 at 6:11 pm

Dearest Annie, thank you for ‘passing on’ my greetings to our friends here in the Blog!!
Dear Nancy, there were lap-tops and Internet in the lobby of the Hotel and I was ..tempted every time I was passing by!!! But you see I was with my family there and I did not want to waste their time waiting for me and show to them …how obsessed with you all, I am!!!!Yes Malta is a beautiful island so is Gozo, but it was very hot for me too, that I am from Cyprus. The buses, some taxis and shops do not have air-condition…
So we are traveling to England/Scotland tomorrow night and as I have found out in the Interent it is cold and rainy there!! ;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
p.s. Where are you, dearest Paul?? T.xx

THELMA July 9, 2009 at 7:39 pm

Thank you dear Savita!!! I was missing you too!! I love you all and I expect from Paulo Coelho to continue being obsessed with his Blog too..
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Heart July 9, 2009 at 8:29 pm

Yr welcome ;)

Savita Vega July 10, 2009 at 4:11 pm

Thank you, Flora, for sharing your thoughts. I really appreciate you taking the time to comment.

Love,
Savita

Flora July 10, 2009 at 5:40 pm

Dear John and Marlene,

I didnt write the poem, I just posted it :)
It was written by e.e. cummings my favorite poet. It´s just that we talked about soulmates and love and I thought i´d share this poem with you all. To e.e. cummings the form of his poems was a very important part of his art thats why i posted it as it was, without a note. In any case i am happy you guys like and understand it :)

Love
Flora

Marlene July 11, 2009 at 4:35 am

Flora I know you didn’t write the poem..It fits so good at the moment to this topic (as you said..love and soulmates) it is the poetry of the heart, the undescribable but the basis of all things…love M.

Carolena Sabah July 11, 2009 at 9:52 am

It is a beautiful poem. One can feel the love and the sweet, soft cool breeze as he imagines himself walking through the forest.
Lovely!

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_café July 17, 2009 at 11:02 pm

Hola Rosa,

¿Qué puedo contar del viaje sin extenderme mucho? La ciudad de Viena es preciosa y lo he pasado muy bien con mis amigos. Hemos paseado por gran parte de la ciudad y visitado la gran mayoría de imprescindibles de la ciudad(el Prater, los jardines de los palacios, el palacio de verano de Sissí, el zoo…)y hemos callejeado mucho. El domingo por la tarde mis amigos se fueron en tren y me quedé unas horas en la ciudad a mi aire… y me di el gusto de perderme…
Además tuve la suerte de poder conocer a Svenja en persona y es una chica encantadora. Quedamos dos días un par de horas, así que seguro que nos veremos una tercera vez. Si en Viena, en barcelona o en otro sitio, ya se verá :-)
Un besote

Nicolette July 19, 2009 at 9:56 pm

I’ve been wondering what your photo by your name was, it’s somewhat difficult to see.

THELMA July 23, 2009 at 9:58 am

Yes, dearest daughter Annie, many years ago, after a big illness I had decided to stop pretending, to stop playing a ‘role’ and to be true to myself! I am who I am and others should love me as I am or I … am not interested!! We cannot have everybody like us and love us!! So, since I am not a child [ "Μικρή" ] I am a Madwoman!!! ;-]
But since I feel LOVE and I am Love, my words are never ‘swords’ intentionally… Whenever I feel that I must be ‘harder’ it is that I want to restore ‘balance and harmony’ or ‘Law and Order’. Everything that comes to our ‘knowledge and subconscious’ has a .. result .. This is how we .. evolve.. And nothing happens without a reason… They are the lessons we have to learn..
I love you so much too..
LOVE, [ and Gratitude you are there]
Mamma Thelma xxx

aditya July 24, 2009 at 12:22 pm

Hia ladies !

breaking in to your conversation. annie says things which are irresitable.

yes words and swords, annie would u happen to know anyone who uses or has sometimes used words as swords ! ! Ok even if cannot pinpoint any one, anyone else who may fit the bill.

In indian schools a poem is taught “what would u choose words or sword” while glorifying both, as the poem must have been written by a man of words, the poem sort of recommends words over sword.

sword can be used both to harm or to protect, to hurt or to heal ! i think you were referring to the tendency to use words to hurt others. sometimes a little hurt is needed, to shake us out of stupor.

love
aditya
PS : words and sword : only a s is changed in its place from last to first and menaing chnages like whooooosh ! who developed the languages ! such close proximity for such diffrent things, or are they not that much diffrent really !

Lily July 24, 2009 at 3:21 pm

‘Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.’
Rudyard Kipling

THELMA July 25, 2009 at 10:16 am

Dearest Annie, I am sending you my best wishes [ you know wishes stay on the Aura!!!!] for every success and fulfillment of your dream in your Path.
LOVE,
mamma Thelma xxx

Rajani July 25, 2009 at 4:36 pm

Dear Annie,

I am so glad you found your dream. I am still searching for tbe road that will lead me to my dream. Best wishes to you in following your destiny
Love

Savita Vega July 26, 2009 at 2:44 am

Just to let you know: your words and your thoughts are never a “bore,” dear Annie, but a shining light. Just keep sharing your rays with us all.

Much Love!
Savita

Carolena Sabah July 26, 2009 at 6:53 am

Annie, congrats to you, to me too! You must know that I feel just as you do! and July 25th, is dedicated to St. James, Santiago!!! Congrats to all of us. And I celebrated Paulo Coelho too, just yesterday, it was the 23rd here, the 24th in Europe. What a great time for celebrations!! I didn’t even know St. James was celebrated on July 25th.

Wow, one year! what a Wonderful year! Paulo thank you so much for The Experimental Witch Project. I am still overjoyed! Thank you a million times! You are So So Wonderful! I love you!

Love you all!
C.

Carolena Sabah July 26, 2009 at 6:53 am

Thanks for this poem Annie!

Satora July 26, 2009 at 10:38 am

Dear Carolena,

Yes, yesterday the Catholic Church celebrated St. James the Greater – the patron Saint of Pilgrims and Laborers…here is some info about the “Order of Saint James of Compostela”.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13353a.htm

Today the Catholic Church celebrates St. Ann – but the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates St. Ann on December 9th.

Χρόνια Πολλά Αnnie (δεν πειράζει) .. έτσι και αλλιώς κάθε μέρα είναι μια γιορτή…φιλάκια πολλά…

With loving kindness,

Satora

Carolena Sabah July 27, 2009 at 3:33 am

Thank you Annie, and Congrats on your name’s day!
How wonderful!!
The ’8′th?? ;) your birthday? and the IC. Coolio!
Xronia Polla!!
Amor

Pandora August 1, 2009 at 7:12 pm

Thank you Annie, thank you for your kind words. I have told a true story that is worth, in my opinion, being told. XXX

marie-christine August 4, 2009 at 2:18 pm

wink wink dear Annie.!
:)

Sarah August 6, 2009 at 8:42 pm

Dearest Annie,

You always put things so beautifully. Thank you :)

THELMA August 9, 2009 at 1:46 pm

I big hug and kiss for you dearest Annie!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Savita Vega August 9, 2009 at 5:01 pm

I agree with you, Annie: Vive la différence! And thank you, too, for all your very kind and generous comments.

Love,
Savita

Heart August 9, 2009 at 8:31 pm

Dear Annie,

You are so right about not comparing one spiritual journey with another, we certainly are unique. I love your image of the trees not being jealous of each other, you have mention in the past. Annie, I agree on everything you have said about sex. Between consenting lovers it can take any shape or form under the sun, and give life to our spirits. What I meant to say to Savita is more, she walks a path that might be very interesting for others to walk too, I certainly can see myself sitting down with a Sufi Master to share in this exciting spirituality.

Dear Savita,

Yes, I like your ‘ripe souls’ and a spirituality blowing wherever the Holy Spirit wants to go! When thinking about it all religions have spread out, and made cultural changes as they ‘go along’. I am sure Americanized Sufi can be very fulfilling. What I tried to say, is I admire you for planning to actually travel to the Mongolian steppes, as I believe the closer to the source for any spirituality you can get, the more powerful it will be.

At last, thank you for repeating the Hafiz poem Carolena posted. If I were to pick one of the more than 2000 poems posted this week, it would probably be this. It’s BEAUTIFUL. Free us from every concept, and just love and live.

All my love to both of you, Annie & Savita!

aditya August 11, 2009 at 7:32 am

5 :)
love
aditya

Heart August 14, 2009 at 8:20 pm

Ahhh Annie, thank you! We have to meet! You are always so so so sweet.

I’m very sorry to hear how you miss your dear grandma. It’s a good thing though, that it hurt to be separated from loved ones. Believe in reunion always, when time is right. And, may I pray you will soon meet your own lil volcano, who can help kiss away all your tears and make sure to keep a smile on your face always.

Love you more,
Heart

Alexandra August 15, 2009 at 8:39 pm

Ok, and more here is great religious event, related to Virgin Marry.
Wish everybody a happy day.
Much love
Alexandra

Heart August 16, 2009 at 8:22 pm

Woooohooooing is fun! So is to see Carolena’s feet EVERYWHERE. Yesterday, I was looking through some of the workshops, and there were here cutsie feets everywhere I looked :))

You and your ass… or what it was! Can I tell you something naughty? Since you don’t seem to mind once in awhile… This image of Volcanoes made me think…. if we women have a bit of that too? Then I remembered a Norwegian writer, Vetle Lid Larsen, who tried to explain this Volcano drive in men, by writing about a character that was so horny he put his dick in the soil of a flowerpot to get some sort of release!!! Women have up through history penetrated themselves with a lot of strange objects too, but I believe this is a proof it is ‘worse’ for men!!!!

:)))))

Savita Vega August 16, 2009 at 10:45 pm

I once had a friend who had his wife take some pictures of his privates, close-ups in black & white, very good quality photos. Then he took these and placed them in one of those multiple-photo frames, also very elegant, and hung them next to the sink in the bathroom, for all visitors to openly see. The thing is that he wasn’t “excited” when the pics were taken, so they were, in essence, somewhat of a “humble” perspective of this otherwise virulent Italian man. I thought it was great. Every time I would go into that bathroom, I would burst into laughter. I thought “What a real man!” – one who isn’t ashamed to expose himself, even at his “weakest moment.”

:)

Mariëlle August 16, 2009 at 11:58 pm

:))))

Wooohoooo!

Heart August 17, 2009 at 12:23 am

Annie,

Yes, he tops it all! We used to go to the same Sunday Mass in Oslo, me and this writer. Once he popped down in the seat right beside me. Have you ever tried to look serious when you just want to laugh out loud for an entire Mass!

Savita,

Your “humble” perspective is hilarious! I’m trying to figure why anybody would want a close up of one’s privates in the bathroom? (was it a psychologist…they are always a bit extreme). Well, they probably didn’t want their guests to be aroused and get it on while peeing? Certainly, it would probably stimulate conversations?

(Some atheist friends of mine had a picture of all the Norwegian Lutheran bishops in their bathroom, just as to say, I don’t give a shit about you! A bit sacrilegious.)

:)

Carolena Sabah August 17, 2009 at 6:05 am

Annie, thank you So much! You make me smile! :D
Love you! :D

aditya August 19, 2009 at 4:50 pm

Thanks heart and annie. it brought a smile to me too, although there was othing funny about what paulo said or u said, a delicate balance between let go and hold on seems to be the key ??

love
aditya

Heart August 20, 2009 at 12:41 am

yr welcome. Agree, nothing funny. In fact the paragraph fit well with this weeks topic, religion. Yup, balance.. and keep moving at the same time.

love and much admiration :)
Heart

Lea White August 20, 2009 at 8:57 pm

That link is really cool, thank you Annie.

Heart August 20, 2009 at 11:45 pm

Interesting Annie! I always enjoy to hear interpretations of dreams. During a years theological course in Dublin, I was thought that we can view each dream we have as a message from God. Therefore, we really should pay much more attention to dreams. I believe psychologists most of the time ask the person who had the dream what they themselves believe this dream means. Carolena herself uses the word ‘close’, and I really think she feels really close to Paulo, which might just be the meaning of this dream too.

Ops, now let me watch your video. Thanks in advance.

Hugs N Kisses lil sis,
Heart

Carolena Sabah August 21, 2009 at 1:55 am

Thank you for that link Annie! Although it was not just a hug, there was an entire story connected to the hug and other things which would not be too appropriate for me to share on the blog ;D

So the dream makes complete sense to me as a whole in it’s entirety.

Thank you though for the link. I also do have a dream book but mainly I like to interpret dreams how Jung recommends, to just let the dream reveal itself over time. My dream with Paulo did not take time at all to reveal because when I woke up it was already revealed.

It’s interesting because then I’ll have some dreams which I cannot figure out the meaning of and it takes sometimes even months before I get a revelation. And also, it has happened to me many times that out of nowhere, I’ll have flashed of dreams I’ve seen maybe as far back as 10 to 20 years ago. It’s a fascinating world.

Love and Kisses.

aditya August 21, 2009 at 8:51 am

dear heart

can we mix theological interpretatiion of dreams with psycholocial interpretations.

annie what do u do for a living, how about writing a book on interpretation of dreams in accordance with various theologies and local traditions, a comparative kind of stuff, not only can u take a Ph D from some institufe for this, u may actually find a buyer for this book, at least me. i was impressed by the direction u took after reading carolena’s post ( why did she ever remove those eyes, sad sad ). why paulo maintains a saintly silence, i hope he has not alreday converted into a saint with halo around his head, that illuminated ring made of light and small fairies flying around them, and yes the white robe.

love
aditya

Heart August 21, 2009 at 5:12 pm

Aditya,

I’m an eclectic I suppose. Yes, I try to see what theology says and what psychology says, then try to draw my own conclusion. The two often are contradictory, then we cannot ‘mix’ them, but have to chose one answer over the other. My point was, we should be careful with dream interpretations, and just be open to several suggestions for what they can mean.

Love and Admiration,
Heart

aditya August 22, 2009 at 6:50 am

Hi heart,
yes that has been my way too, to read about ‘things’ from various authors, angles. when i read, i take whatever is written as true,no prejudices. after it has sunk in, it mixes with other such soups alreday there and then whatever may be the outcome. aboyt this dream interpretation thing my conclusion too has been same – we should be very very careful and should not beleive everything we read.

annie,

u will kill me, work and me – help me god !!! presently i am working with a group building things, i am enjoying it. i have a few projects on my agenda ( one of them happens to be interacting closely on this blog, why not it helps me widen my being ), and a few so audatious, which i will have to ‘strighten’ myself some more before i can go after them. now that my first buyer is assured i will write a book.

much love to you
aditya

Savita Vega August 22, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Dear Aditya,
The comparison that you are suggesting is essentially the work already done by Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, and yes, it is not only possible but essential to mix theological, psychological and even sociological interpretation.

Jung worked on the individual level, in the field of psychology, and his conclusion was that although a dream may be unique to the individual, the dream content and therefore the interpretation of it must be informed by religion, culture, etc. Therefore it is not possible, or should I say accurate, to merely create comprehensive lists to interpret dreams (as Freud assumed), making statements such as: When one dreams X this means such and such.

I was born in the United States, where the concept “snake” holds an exclusively negative connotation, both in religion and the culture as a whole – the snake is the enemy, it is evil, it is Satan. So, if I dream of a snake, that may be something very different than if you dream of a snake, as, in India, the concept “snake” holds a potentially very positive connotation – the snakes which adorn and accompany Lord Shiva, the rising of the Kundalini energy, and so on. An individual’s dream content arises from out of a psyche that is, of course, shaped by religion and many other sociological aspects of their existence. So, to interpret a dream, it is necessary to account for this sociological diversity, including the diversity of religions and their mythologies. Still, buried within this exterior diversity there are common Archetypes which are identifiable.

This brings us to the work of Joseph Campbell, who spent his entire life cataloging and comparing the mythologies (which can also be thought of as the “collective dreams”) of various religions and cultures. What he discovered was very much in support of Jung’s theory of Archetypes, which is basically the idea that, even in this diversity, there are to be found certain essential energies or forces (Archetypes) which manifest themselves in various forms in different cultures and their myths. In one culture we may see the snake as Satan, representing the soul’s descent or potential downfall; in another culture we may see the snake as the Kundalini energy, representing the soul’s ascent or potential enlightenment. The exterior forms are the same – snake – but the Archetypal forces which they represent are precisely the opposite.

And this is why lists detailing fixed interpretations of dreams, though interesting, are not, in practice, very useful. They look at the exterior forms only and do not account for cultural or religious diversity, nor do they seek to uncover the essential Archetypes beneath those forms. In terms of dream interpretation, this is work that can only be done on an individual level, with the active participation of the individual in question. As Annie says, dreams are a message from the inner Self. (i.e., No matter how hard we try, we cannot interpret Carolena’s dream for her.)

At any rate, I wish you all the best with your projects, and with your book. I very much enjoy reading your comments here on the blog.

With Love,
Savita

Carolena Sabah August 23, 2009 at 1:08 am

Annie, I think a forum on Dreams would be Wonderful! So many interesting concepts exist there.

I agree with Savita, we cannot interpret someone elses dream. It’s almost as if saying that someone knows what the other person’s Personal Legend is. I believe dreams are the language of our dreams, our Personal Legends.

Dreams reveal themselves to us, we just have to allow them to do so, give time, provided we don’t forget the dream. And profound dreams with messages, I rarely forget. Sometimes even dreams are prophetic, where i’ve seen things before they happen.

I’ve had a recurring nightmare when I was very young. I have woken up in the middle of the night from the same dream many many times. At the time I did not understand it at all, I was very young, but years later, almost 10, when I started to realize what was going on around me at that time, it was crystal clear what my nightmare was about, yet at the time, I had no idea that was happening.

Love and Kisses

Savita Vega August 22, 2009 at 11:15 pm

Yes, Annie, I agree – a forum on dreams would be great. We don’t necessarily need to analyze them or try to interpret them, just share them! Dreams can be so profound and so powerful. Hearing the dreams of others is a bit like reading mythology – you don’t necessarily need to know what it meant to the dreamer in order to connect with the story on some deep level.

Alexandra August 23, 2009 at 7:48 am

I will lend him the book I finished… He loves the author too, I talk about Terry Pratchet.

marie-christine August 23, 2009 at 2:58 pm

dear Annie,
My thoughts and prayers are with you all.

With Love
Marie-Christine

candieb August 23, 2009 at 3:04 pm

Hi Annie!Yes I wanted to ask you how things were there.This is terrible,was it last year that there were big fires too?
Terrible!My heart goes with all of you.

Love

Candie

Savita Vega August 23, 2009 at 4:44 pm

Dear Annie,
I know this may sound a little silly, but sometimes, when the elements of nature do things that see a reprehensible, I go out and talk to them, talk directly to them, as though these elements were people. A river is overflowing it’s banks, threatening to flood tracts of homes, and so I go to this river and I say, “Look here, you! This behavior is totally unacceptable, and you really must learn to behave yourself better.” I scold the river and point out the damage that it is doing. I say, “Listen! Don’t you hear those people crying over there, who’ve already lost their homes? Don’t be so greedy. And stop this nonsense right this instant!” Then I give the river some small gift, something of my own that I would not wish to lose in a flood, but which I am willing to part with as a token of my sincerity.

I can’t claim that this does any good, or that I get my way – I’m not a magician – but I can say that it makes me feel better having had my say.

We live in an area where tornadoes are common, and when tornado weather arises, sometimes I speak to the blue-black sky and I say, “Look here, you! Don’t you dare think of bringing a tornado down on this house. I have children here, and animals, to think about, and I’m having none of your nonsense today. Do you hear me up there? I’m speaking to you!” I realize that, in a sense, this is the opposite of prayer. I’m not pleading with the sky, not begging for mercy – I’m demanding. But somehow this approach of expressing my emotions in ernest, talking to the storm clouds as though they were just another person, no more powerful than I am – this makes me feel less helpless, less fearful, and that is really the thing that I need most in that hour – just not to be consumed by my own fear.

Much love to you, Annie, and to all who stand in the wake of these fires.

Sincerely,
Savita

THELMA August 23, 2009 at 5:23 pm

We are all watching the T.V. about these fires.. It seems that people always are jealous of too much beauty and Greece is a Paradise..
My prayers are with you, dearest Annie.
Take care.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Savita Vega August 23, 2009 at 4:04 pm

The gift of a book, I think, is sometimes the most precious gift of all. I started doing this thing with Paulo’s books: When I finish one I start thinking – going down the list of people I know – who would this book touch the most? I used to keep all books that came my way, especially not letting go of the ones I liked the most, but Paulo’s books are somehow different. They seem almost too precious to hoard. My daughter loves Paulo’s books too, and she says, “Oh, Mamma, don’t get rid of them. Let’s collect them all!” But I say to her, “No, when we’re ready to read it again, we’ll find another copy. For now it’s someone else’s turn.” And so off the book goes into someone else’s hands, all beat up and underlined. And I am hoping too that they will highlight the parts that they find most inspiring. And so the person says, “When I finish it, do you want me to give it back?” and I say, “No, just pass it on to someone else, if you can.” I imagine these books flowing out like little rivers in all directions, touching and nourishing the lives of those into whose hands they pass.

Catherine August 23, 2009 at 5:59 pm

Savita
I should love to have seen that
The elements being told off ;o)
bless you.

Mariëlle August 23, 2009 at 9:47 pm

It almost is a prayer, dear Annie, I really really hope the wind will listen, my thoughts are with you.

Love

Pandora August 24, 2009 at 10:30 am

Dear Annie

I haven’t watched the news for ages, I hope you are all OK.

My thoughts and prayers are also with you.

Lots of love
XXX

Nicolette August 26, 2009 at 12:02 am

very beautiful, something I would like to say to myself every morning so I will believe it

aditya August 26, 2009 at 7:02 am

Hi ! Annie.

tell me when that I will changes to i do. that is the catch my friend.

love
aditya

Samar August 28, 2009 at 11:05 am

Dear Annie,
I could do that, but i have to realize the fact that the quest of my dreams might effect those i love negatively. That’s the painful dilemma. Sometimes, in order to keep the beloveds happy you have to wear the mask.

And thank you so much for the reply :) It truly means ALOT.

marie-christine August 29, 2009 at 3:25 pm

Sheelu;sheela dearest
I can put you in contact with the Master of hugs if it is of some help? :)

Daniel August 30, 2009 at 8:21 am

Sheela, reading your comment’s about ad nauseum, I was reminded of the theme in The Zahir about telling your stories to be free of them and close the circle, then it is easier to be you in the present. Tell your stories!

With love, Daniel

Ilva Asote August 30, 2009 at 12:14 am

Dear Alexandra, Savita and Annie!

All those books are also available on Feedbooks for Coelho (for free!) Books: “The Way of the Bow”, “Stories for Children, Parents and Grandchildren”, “Warrior of The Light”.

I could post the link but…. Put a little bit of effort – it’s not the First but.. Second Chance! :)

Liina.L September 1, 2009 at 2:35 pm

I’ve seen it done like this on the Animal Planet channel. Forming one animel to another one with just a few strokes on that sand (or what ever it is!). Amazing!

Thanks for that!
Love,
L.

candieb September 1, 2009 at 2:40 pm

I’ve seen it before,that is awesome!Thank you Annie for putting that here!Wishing you a nice day!:)

Cats September 1, 2009 at 6:50 pm

ooo…
magical work…
Thanks for the link here

i first saw sand art on a ‘tea’ advert on the tv…

and hey, it is like those bottles of sand one finds in the middle east… so lovely.

Alexandra September 1, 2009 at 9:46 pm

Thank you. Have a nice fall season, autumn …I love that season because many tasty fruits are now rippen, and the colours of the leaves, and is not so hot… And is approaching my birthday, slowly slowly…ok
Love
Alexandra

Cats September 2, 2009 at 1:59 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgK_keIJq-4&feature=related

…. you have got me tube-blogging now ;o))LOL. xx

Heart September 2, 2009 at 5:18 pm

lol Sis. You and Aditya think alike…’great minds think alike’

Big kiss,
Heart

Heart September 2, 2009 at 10:12 pm

Annie, If you live like it was your last day, you will do EVERYTHING, right? No hesitations. No waiting. Just Do It! A lot of those things would kill us, i.e. travel to Geneva or South France and show up outside Paulo’s resident, and just grab him…I’m sure lovely Christina would show a not so lovely side, and perhaps just gun us down. Hehe. Love you,
Heart

Heart September 2, 2009 at 10:13 pm

Annie ;) I believe Piet Hein suggest a more moderate approach..like hang out here in the blog, and see if we can catch God’s attention :))

Heart September 2, 2009 at 5:19 pm

Beautiful Cats. Thank you.
Love,
Heart

Alexandra September 2, 2009 at 7:10 pm

In november. And onomastic 6 december..than comes Christmass, than New Years Eve. Only feasts!

candieb September 2, 2009 at 11:21 pm

Thanks Annie,it’s been a long time I haven’t listened to Enigma!That’s cool.I also like I Muvrini,do you know?Here’s one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx5fkk2UvbE

Love

aditya September 3, 2009 at 5:10 am

amen !!

to catching god’s attention, but they say he is always paying his attention to us, although i am not so sure. just yesterday, a coffee table discussion hovered around that black hole experiment in geneva, the various doomsday theories doing rounds ( supposed end is in dec 2012 ), someone said god created the earth, to balance it the moon, to balance it the sun and he went to creating to balance this with that. i suggested maybe finally god became smart enough, saw futility of creation and went back to his eternal sleep, leaving his creations to fend for themselves.

that rich aunt of yours, make sure u figure in her will.

seriously, it would be interesting to know what goes on in mind of people who are on death beds, who know that the last few days are around.
love
aditya

Heart September 3, 2009 at 5:05 pm

My dearest friends,

To catch the attention of God or fellow man…yes, a good topic!

‘The end of the world’ or ‘the end of my life’? Nobody knows when this will be. If anybody suggests a year, a date, they are most likely going to be wrong, as we have seen in the past with Nostradamus predictors and what have you. One of my husbands closest friend, had an insulin chock driving his truck 65 mpr last Monday, and was killed momentarily. It certainly again made us think about what if… (I really should go through diary notes that I want NOBODY to read and get rid of them!) Except from this, there is nothing I feel I have to do before I die. I should ask God forgiveness for my sins more often than I do. I should share what I have more with the poor than I do. Unfulfilled dreams? Empty all sadness from my heart with happy positive feelings. I always know. There is a time for sadness and a time for happiness. This is how life continue, and I do thank God for each day here below, and is trying to be positively optimistic about future there abowe some day, some time He/She will give us.

God bless you both!
Love and Admiration,
Heart

aditya September 3, 2009 at 10:05 am

thanks daniel & annie.

love
aditya

josephine September 3, 2009 at 3:50 pm

That was great thanks you ! Viva Corsica!

Ilva Asote September 4, 2009 at 7:43 pm

I agreeeeeee with you 100%, Annie!!! :)

Daniel September 5, 2009 at 4:25 pm

Yes, “Here”! and the best time is right NOW! :-)

aditya September 5, 2009 at 12:34 pm

yepp ! and there are some more at no. 1, to each his own.

love
aditya

Daniel September 5, 2009 at 5:18 pm

I suspect the ocean has washed it away by now! ;-)

The message was for my beloved and my children Annie. At risk of causing further jealousy though, perhaps the message was for anyone who stopped to read?

Today on the beach I had the thought, I am a fool, but at least I’m a romantic one. :))

With love, Daniel

Liina.L September 5, 2009 at 5:42 pm

I love these kind of moments.

Thanks for sharing!
Love,
Liina

Pandora September 7, 2009 at 4:12 pm

Daniel

That is a beautiful moment, thank you for sharing it.

Love
Pandora

Ilva Asote September 5, 2009 at 8:38 pm

Annie, our dearest Paulo said this on Twitter.
Join Twitter and follow Paulo!!! :)

Alexandra September 6, 2009 at 6:55 am

I found it without the author name, but indeed seems Paulos style and philosophy. And now I think is very true, and I feel that phrase a chalenge.
Love
Alexandra

yoomi September 6, 2009 at 7:17 am

Dear Ilva!

What is Twitter?

I wish this is not a foolish question ;o)

Ilva Asote September 6, 2009 at 1:24 pm

Dear Yoomi,

No, of course, it’s not foolish question!
Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with different people. It’s the best way to share and discover what is happening right now. Twitter enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.
For example, if you join Twitter and follow Paulo Coelho, you’ll be able to see and read his tweets. Moreover, you’ll be able to take part in his 5 questions “ping-pong”! :)

Yoomi, here is the link: http://twitter.com/
So, just try it! :)

Love,
Ilva

Yoomi September 8, 2009 at 7:12 am

Dear Ilva,

Thank you very much for your information.:)
I joined Twitter and followed Paulo Coelho,
and I asked him a simple question.
But he never answered. I think I get hurt.
Is there any rule there?

Love,
Yoomi

Ilva Asote September 8, 2009 at 12:36 pm

Dear Yoomi,

First of all, I must say I never ask questions to Paulo in Twitter. It’s a good chance but… I believe if he wants to tell us something, he will do that without asking.

Secondly, he has more than 115 000 followers (and now you are one of them!). So, it’s simply impossible to answer to all of our questions.

My advice to you: when you feel you can not reach Paulo in Twitter, “express yuor soul” in this blog – be one of the Warriors of Light!

Moreover, don’t move so fast! Believe in miracles! And NEVER GIVE UP!

Much love,
Ilva

Antara September 7, 2009 at 8:02 am

Hi Annie,
I admit… I never really thought that way. Your words gave a whole new meaning of why I should pursue this dream. For the last couple of years, it had never remained like a dream, but a thought of running away from a nightmare(i feared that if the dream doesn’t come true). I have never known how to keep aside the fear and pursue a dream endlessly.
But I just can’t help but feel impatient about the whole thing. The negatives of the world engulf me sometimes; trying to intrude in my mind and break my resolutions. I held my head high; strong enough to remain on my path. But today when my efforts just reached its goal and then was shattered just before it reached the summit; I tend to think “What’s been the use of this journey?”

but then there’s a positive side to it. I’m now no longer afraid of any obstacle that might come. Perhaps for the first time I’m gonna leave it entirely upon God and let the dream manifest itself. I’ve just played my role and the rest part doesn’t need my intervention anymore. Its a matter of waiting for the sun to rise and waiting impatiently with eager eyes. Am I on the right path?

Paulo Coelho September 8, 2009 at 11:49 am

a] there is no rule in this blog, except to express your soul
b] when I give my ping-pong interviews in twitter ( @paulocoelho) once a day (normally), I get several questions in one minute, and I choose the first five.
c] I am not easily hurt, and for sure not by a question. Talk to journalists, and you will see what I mean.

Ankita September 8, 2009 at 12:23 pm

i miss her too…funny how you miss people you’ve never ever met.

Johanne Mercille September 9, 2009 at 1:03 am

Thank you so much for your thought … It feels good. Love to you too Annie, Jojo.

Ilva Asote September 9, 2009 at 8:51 pm

Dearest Annie,

THANK YOU for not ignoring the task! I’ve to say, I appreciate it much more than your answer…

My little gift for you: 24 Orange ”Pearls” of Joy – Rowan Berries!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/220378089_9fdb7473cc.jpg?v=0

As well, later I’m going to post ”my answer” of this ”cryptographic” task. I guess you’ll be surprised how simple it is…

Kisses,
Ilva

Ilva Asote September 9, 2009 at 10:07 pm

Annie,

I’ll post it tomorrow.
It means you still have time to think! :)

Hugs,
Ilva

Ilva Asote September 9, 2009 at 10:10 pm

Much more: Tomorrow I’m going to meet “Gharib”! :)

Ilva Asote September 10, 2009 at 10:42 am

Dearest Annie,

Gharib’s Chess is not about “digging”. It’s about the art of enjoying life and about… gliding on the chessboard.

Each begins “the game” with sixteen pieces of the specified color. These consist of one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights and eight pawns.

Gharib is not the Pawn. But he is not the King, too. Gharib is the “Horse” called “Knight” (in Chess). White Knight.

Annie, let’s try one time more: but, please, do not DIG! Simply… GLIDE!

„SOCRATES, ARISTOTLE, PLATO”

And, of course, don’t forget to enjoy your „gliding”! :)

Much Love,
Ilva

P.S. And THANK YOU for participating in this „chess tournament”!

Ilva Asote September 9, 2009 at 11:17 pm

And I’m a fan of you, Annie!

Ilva Asote September 10, 2009 at 11:02 am

Then let’s do it together!!!

THELMA September 10, 2009 at 3:53 pm

Your Mamma is with you!!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Heart September 10, 2009 at 5:42 pm

Must be at least Twenty years after by now. We’ll make little baby steps changing the world each and every one of us. A change happened to me this morning on my walk and I met these two ladies walking their two big Huskies. I got scared and had my pepper spray ready in case they would attack my sweet little Jack Russel Terriers. The Huskies pulled the two owners toward us, who didn’t look like they had much control on their dogs. Well, one of the ladies said; ‘They are friendly’ and I asked ‘Oh, they just want to play?’ and they laughed and said yes. So, we had a morning chat, and I could admire the two beautiful Huskies with blue eyes, and start to concur my scare of them. They told me they got the dogs in Texas, and that the arctic dogs do pretty good in the desert :)

Love you lil sis and BFF and Ilva the greek cherry lady :)
Heart
xxx

PS If you do your yoga trip to India, you could sit philosophizing on what changes YOU want to make, and want us to make Annie?

Ankita September 10, 2009 at 11:54 am

focusing on the outcome of the pain is a good idea.
thanks.TC.

THELMA September 10, 2009 at 6:33 pm

Dear Heart, BFF and Annie, I am a … whole-life-flat -living -woman and afraid of … dogs, even those that you can carry in your bag!![Although they are beautiful to see them from a .. safe place!!]
I know .. Huskies; a very close friend of mine has two in a .. flat!! Beautiful blue eyes, but no … snow in Cyprus for them!
The … Lack Russel Terriers are those lovely dogs in the .. video??? Beautiful film, dear Heart and you are beautiful..
Ilva are you Greek??
Oh Heart, Annie is not going to India, at least in the near future.. She is coming to Cyprus!!!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Ilva Asote September 10, 2009 at 9:17 pm

Thank you, lovely Annie!

Yes, very often I use ‘wrong’ words to express myself – my writing is clumsy and my English is awful – not fluent enough to send
‘clear messages’ to you and to others. Sorry for that.

I’m going to do copy/paste to save your ANSWERS. I’ll overlook your posts again, so I’ll be able to say more next time. Is that ok? :)

You are like a river, Annie. You ‘flow’ wherever you want…

But now You are “Kalinka” in Chess.

And I love you, too!

ilva

Ilva Asote September 10, 2009 at 9:22 pm

Nop! Ilva is not Greek. I guess it was typing error. :)
I’m from Latvia and I’m Latgalian.

I’ve to say, dear Thelma, it was a great honour for me to be at least for a short while Greek!

Love,
Ilva

Heart September 10, 2009 at 9:39 pm

Thelma dearest,

Promise not to tell you more dog stories!

Well, Mother and Daughter together in Cyprus, the two great pianists meeting to practice a joyful duet. I wonder what you two will compose together. Will be something bringing us all to tears :)

Love and ADMIRATION,
Heart
xxx

Heart September 11, 2009 at 2:11 am

Ilva, sorry I though you were Greek. I thought I had seen you write with Greek letters. Must mix you with somebody else. Or do you use the Greek alphabet in Latvia?

THELMA September 11, 2009 at 7:48 am

“I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world”
Socrates.

Dear Ilva, thank you for your kind words!

Dear Heart, Annie is the … composer in the … family!! I just ‘wanted’ to become a ..big pianist!! ;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Ilva Asote September 11, 2009 at 10:07 am

Oh, so beautiful qoute of Socrates! Thank you, dearest Thelma!

Annie! You see, HE IS BACK! SOCRATES IS BACK!!! He is playing Chess with us! :) Asote + Kalinka and Gharib + Socrates! Annie, that must be ‘reply’ from the Universe!

No, no, dear ZUZU (Heart), we do not use Greek Alphabet in Latvia. When I look at Greek Alphabet it’s an art I wish I could understand… Unfortunately, I can not :(

Love,
Ilva

Heart September 10, 2009 at 9:41 pm

You are so cuuuttteee with your dragon city…They just don’t make cute sisters like you anymore!

You and Thelma together will be sooo good for both of you, I’m dreaming about the two of you playing piano together already. I will be here waiting for FULL REPORT :D

Ilva Asote September 11, 2009 at 9:29 am

Annieeeee! Yes! And again ‘yes’!
It was perfect bedtime story for me, too!

Do you know, dear Heart, what I dreamed this night about!? I asked to you (in my dream) what is your ‘real’ name. And you proudly answered: “I AM ZUZU.” :)
When I woke up, I goggled it!
ZUZU means “SWEET” but in some sources – “lily”.
Isn’t that, Heart…. sweet? :)

And what’s the most important:
“Violets dream to turn into roses. But roses dream to turn in lilys…”

Much love,
Ilva

Heart September 11, 2009 at 4:39 pm

I’m so happy you like it sis. Sweet dreams!

Heart September 11, 2009 at 4:50 pm

Annie dearest,

Your rose and amaranth story has that great message of not envying anybody else. The violet and rose story was more about doing what other people say you cannot do, as in the quote of the week.

Which reminds me I used to show a cute overhead to students depicting ten penguins, where nine of them were standing on the ground and one was up in the air flying above them, and with a talk-bubble saying; ‘We told him it was impossible’ (penguins cannot fly, but one showed the world he could!)

Love you so much I could squeeze the stuffing out of you…as they say in the USA…(stuffed turkeys every holiday dinner) :)

Heart
xxx

Ilva Asote September 11, 2009 at 12:20 pm

Thank you, Annie, my dearest friend!

By the way, September 23 – Gharib’s birthday. After 12 days he will turn 81 but I still don’t know how to make him happy – I have no idea about his birthday present. And it makes me very sad.

So, there are some things I’ve to tell you more:
1) about 25 and… 26! :)
2) about River (in Gharib’s manner)
3) about meaning of Kalinka (in Chess)

Ooooh, I see it won’t be easy! :)

Kisses for you, Annie!

Ilva

P.S.
1] When I decide to “glide”, I’ll call you ‘Kalinka’.
2] Gharib’s real name is Shantay.
3] Shantay is a female name…

Ilva Asote September 11, 2009 at 12:50 pm

Oh, thanks, dear Sister Liina!

Being giraffe means to be closer to the stars!!! :)

Hugs,
Ilva

Heart September 11, 2009 at 4:45 pm

Dearest Ilva,

Your dreams are amazing! What a wonderful gift to get here an early Friday morning, a young lady in Latvia dreaming about me. Amazing.

And you might want to know, lilies are my FAVORITE flowers! When I lived alone I always had a tall glass vase filled with lilies, as I find them so elegant and with a holy quality. If you notice often in religious paintings there are lilies depicted.

Thank you with my whole heart dear new friend in Latvia. Thank you for your wonderful new name for me. Zuzu…I like it a lot :)

Kisses,
Heart

Ilva Asote September 11, 2009 at 10:14 pm

Since Gharib is 81, is Shantay 81?
Oh, you made me laugh!!! Funny, indeed! Annie, it’s a brilliant question! The answer is: I DON’T KNOW. I must ask it to him! And I’ll do that!

About the Stone: I think we can not make a photo of our Dreams. But I can make a photo of the Stone. So, I want to say, I do not use the metaphor of the Stone. It is real – alive – as I am.

Annie, Annie…:) Shantay is Gharib. Annie is Kalinka. Ilva is
Asote. But do not try to google this name. You won’t find the answer.But as it’s not a secret, one day I’ll tell why I’m Asote!
At least now you know that Asote is not my “family name”. It’s ME in Chess. Hehe!

September 23… Thelmas birthday also? Oh… Thanks for telling that! :)

About the present to Gharib. Hmmm…. He likes…chickens…and me! :)

Love,
Ilva

Paulo Coelho September 12, 2009 at 9:37 pm

As for the bottle of wine, funny enough I asked my maid to take a photo today. Click the link below

http://img10.imageshack.us/i/dscn0548y.jpg/img=http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/5263/dscn0548y.th.jpg

Heart September 12, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Great reflections on the house Annie Kalinka :) The house is strange, but very charming. I noticed the little flowers, and everything is so well kept and inviting. I do not think they would reject you Paulo if you had rung the door bell.

Thank you for sharing your photo Paulo. I love those European lunch cafes, and days good enough one can sit outside.

Love and Admiration,
Heart

Ilva Asote September 12, 2009 at 10:29 pm

Good, very good! Now it’s my turn!
What’s about WINE – ………… It takes a special place in Chess…. Yes, I’m mad. :D
Annie, now I’m with one foot in your fairy tale! :) But with other…

Ilva Asote September 12, 2009 at 9:52 pm

Dear Annie,

And WHO said my solution was the right one? :D :D :D
I simply enjoy the game of Chess!!!
Oh, Annie, indeed (!) it’s not Gharib’s house. BUT why do you pay so much attention to that WHO is living in this house? WHY??? Does it matter?
Sometimes less is more. But in Chess: just ONE single move matters a lot.
BTW, for ME more important is WHO made a photo of this house, not who is living in it.
Annie, your answer/solution will be the right one if you enjoy that what you are doing… And, of course, your ‘solution’ may differ from mine! 100%

Love,
Ilva

Ilva Asote September 12, 2009 at 10:12 pm

Annie, may I tell you when is “cheskmate”? Sometimes when you get irritated:
1] with a noisy surrounding;
2] by the stupid posts :D
3] and finally: with the task.
At this point, game is over.
Annie, I’m going to make my move tomorrow. So, you’ve enough time to say to me “Checkmate, Asote!” :D
I love you, my dear “deer with a heart of a butterfly”!

marie-christine September 12, 2009 at 10:13 pm

HEE HAA Annie! You little beauty!

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 12:04 am

Dear Paulo,
Indeed funny enough!
The bottle of wine on the chessboard with black and… grey squares. BINGO! Grey squares: “Grey, grey, like my mood today…”
Love,
Ilva
P.S. Going to post my thoughts about the “STRANGE house” tomorrow. Hopefully my “grey” squares will turn into “white” on Sunday.

THELMA September 13, 2009 at 6:36 am

Thank you Paulo, for sharing your …. daily heaven! You look so calm and content!!
Those …big glasses!!! My husband also buys them and enjoys drinking in them and I hate ….washing them!! Too fragile!!!
Have a nice Sunday.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Alexandra September 13, 2009 at 3:24 pm

Incredible…lol
I dont see the label.
Cheers!

Yoomi September 14, 2009 at 11:08 pm

I really like it !

You look like a philosopher or a poet in this photo..

We(or, Is it just me??)would love to see you smile fully,
with all your teeth shining, in your next photo..

Love,

Yoomi

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 12:21 am

Annie dearest,
When I post my answer about the “STRANGE house”, I’ll post my answer to the dilemma! :)

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 3:08 pm

1) Rainbows – a very good topic. But I prefer to talk about it next week.
2) About the coat of arms – Gharib’s advice was to replace some elements from it with another elements/signs. So, I’m going to do that later.
3) Yes, zebra represents chessboard.
4) The Bull represents 2009 year.
5) Donkey — Monkey —- ??? :D

“Asote is a Monkey.” – That is a task, Annie, for you! I have to add: the answer is very simple. Very simple. But (!) do not hurry to answer!

By the way, it’s raining in Latvia, too.

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 3:36 pm

“HI” and “BYE” in Chess is a mystery.
If you get to know what is “hi” and what is “bye” you are not the Pawn anymore…

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 3:21 pm

Annie, what’s about SYMBOLISM – the “poor” man “feeds” me different signs and symbols for almost 20 years. :D

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 6:08 pm

2016 year – the year when I’ll turn, Annie, 33 years old.

Asote = Monkey = The Key of A Monk

India! Yes!!! But that’s another story…

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 4:53 pm

The Desert, Annie, is O-Range.

Satora September 13, 2009 at 5:05 pm

Annaki…

the adjective “gharib” (arabic) means STRANGE….

Filakia polla,

Satoraki…

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 5:50 pm

Daer Annie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now YOU SEE how GHARIB moves!
And YOU, nasty girl :) said it wasn’t Gharib’s house! :D :D :D

Thanks, Satora! Thanks a lot!!!

Much love,
Ilva

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 6:52 pm

But I AM the Pawn.

If YOU are the Horse /in Chess/ than YOU are much much stronger than me. That’s good! I LIKE strong opponents.

Gharib is the “Horse”/the Knight also. But I had never courage to say to him that I am the Horse… Because I AM NOT. I am not so strong as he is.

Unfortunately, I am too unexperienced to be the Horse or the Knight in Chess.

But let’s talk about that again on October 2nd! :)

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 7:31 pm

AND: I DO NOT WANT TO BE THE HORSE.

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 10:13 pm

Annie, whats’s up to you, girl!? :)
I told you already about the Pawns!!! Hehe!
Every Pawn is a potential….what?

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 9:06 pm

In Chess?

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 10:03 pm

Annie, Annie… I am a metaphysical chess piece.
And Gharib is a metaphysical chess piece. That is WHY we both are absent………….
I love you, my dear Friend!
P.S. Annie (I’m whispering now), did you notice Siamese while we both were playing? :D :D :D

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 10:09 pm

I knew it. That’s why I’m playing/talking/kidding WITH YOU not with Margarita or Irene. :D

Pandora September 13, 2009 at 10:20 pm

I love OWLS… T-Witt-T-Woo

She hunts at night, and sleeps by day, her big eyes show her the way..

I went to an old ruined church in the middle of the countryside a few years back with some friends, and perched at the top of the steeple were three Barn owls peering down, a beautiful memory.

Also Athena’s symbol, Wisdom.

Magic.

White Owl, Silver Owl, Demon Owl, Ghost Owl, Death Owl, Night Owl, Rat Owl, Monkey-faced Owl, Church Owl, Cave Owl or Stone Owl. Golden Owl = Barn Owl

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 10:52 pm

Thank you, Pandora!

Satora September 13, 2009 at 11:07 pm

Αννακι μου,

Υπάρχουν παιχνίδια για διάφορα πράγματα …
Υπάρχουν και διάφοροι άνθρωποι που παίζουν παιχνίδια …
Η τρελά δεν είναι πάντα τόσα μακριά από την πραγματικότητα …
Εσύ διαλέγεις μέχρι που θα παίξεις….και μέχρι τώρα πας μια χαρά…
Ήθελα μόνο να σου πω πως κάτι «παράξενο» συμβαίνει με το όνομα που έχει για το παιχνίδι και πως πάντα πρέπει να ξέρεις αν ο αντίπαλος σου στο παιχνίδι είναι «πιόνι» η «ψ..ναρα»…. Η φιλοξενία γράφεται με κεφαλαία γράμματα αλλά ο «ξένος» δεν είναι πάντα φιλότιμος….

Παίξε ελεύτερα ψυχή μου εσύ ξέρεις την καρδιά σου …

Με πολλή αγάπη,

Σατορακι…

Ilva Asote September 13, 2009 at 11:17 pm

Annie, the last what I want to say today: I KNOW NOTHING. Unfortunately, I can not cancel/delete my “moves”… But it was very nice to talk to you! Very exiting!
My “gift” to you: 8 bananas (representing 8 Monkey’s moves)! :)
Kisses for you,
Asotite (deminutive)
^^ ^^
…still dancing under a Banana-Tree! :D

Ilva Asote September 14, 2009 at 10:33 am

Chess Quote for Life: “When you see a good move, look for a better one!” /Emanuel Lasker/

Perfection and Chess, Annie, has no limits…

Ilva Asote September 14, 2009 at 11:16 am

“Zahir in Chess is “The Manifest”!”
^^ ^^ I don’t know, Annie. I do not understand it also.
Maybe it’s some kind of “the “Manifistation of God”?
I DO NOT KNOW.
Yes, and I must say that the English language is MY Hell. :)

“Manifestations of God are the only channel for humanity to know about God, and they act as perfect mirrors reflecting the attributes of God into the physical world.”

Ilva Asote September 14, 2009 at 11:20 am

1] The Manifest…
2] The Manifesto…
3] The Manifestation…

Who could help “what is what”? :)

The Manifistation of God – PROBABLY it could be the right answer.

Ilva Asote September 14, 2009 at 4:56 pm

PROBABLY Zahir in Chess is “more than an obsession”.

1] Obsession is a negative passion.
2] Mirror, mirror, on the wall…
3] Passion is a positive obsession.

Ilva Asote September 14, 2009 at 5:13 pm

1] Have passion for what you do;
2] Passion for God (a burning passion in your heart to do His work – to Love);
3] God’s Passion to Forgive…
4] Does your passion and God’s passion ‘hold hands’…?
5] And finally, Passion for Life

Ilva Asote September 14, 2009 at 5:19 pm

“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.” /Hebbel/

Ilva Asote September 15, 2009 at 9:19 am

Brilliant move, Kalinka!

Now it’s my turn!

PASSION BREEDS ENTHUSIASM.

Ilva Asote September 15, 2009 at 9:31 am

PASSION IS BOUNDLESS ENTHUSIASM.

Paulo Coelho September 14, 2009 at 12:42 pm

This is all you need to join the community. Participate!

THELMA September 14, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Welcome Arham!!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

aditya September 14, 2009 at 3:36 pm

chess should be played playfully !

Ilva Asote September 14, 2009 at 4:01 pm

Yes, dear Aditya, you are right…! :)

Savita Vega September 14, 2009 at 5:25 pm

Although I do very much hold with what Pandora says about the dangers of this becoming a sort of elitist platform, which could actually be detrimental to children labeled as such, I do think it is very interesting in many ways. What I think is very valuable about most of the literature I have read on the subject is how it exposes this tendency in our society to label children as “abnormal” (autistic, ADD, etc) who do not conform to the expectations of performance to which they are held, who learn best by alternate methods of teaching or who best express what they have learned through artistic expression. So many of us are “abnormal” if held up to the strict standards of what society expects and demands of us, but this does not mean that we do not have as much or more to offer to the world as those who excel at following all the rules, who easily conform to the straight-and-narrow path laid out before them.

I really think that what is most important is not recognizing that one is a “crystal child” or an “indigo adult” or whatever, but simply realizing one’s own unique potential and gift which one can develop and manifest in the world. It is important for ALL of us, even if we don’t fit that list of indigo or crystal traits, to know that we are special and that we have a very important and unique mission here on this earth. In order to discover that, we have to dispense of terms such as “normal” and “abnormal” and look within for modes of being and expressing what is unique to each of us.

We are each “special” – we just have to dare to experiment with and express our uniqueness. We have to trust that this which makes us “different” – whatever it is – is not a curse but a gift.

Love,
Savita

Ankita September 14, 2009 at 10:00 pm

lol…

Ilva Asote September 15, 2009 at 7:55 pm

Thank you, dear Annie, for Love “from the Internet”.
It inspires.
“Eros will have naked bodies (…)” /C.S.Lewis/
But I LIKE me so much better when I’m naked.

Much Love,
Asote

Ilva Asote September 15, 2009 at 8:16 pm

By the way, Annie, two days ago I asked you to “shoot” me.

In reply from you I received: “I shoot you with a devil’s egg”

May I ask you to explain me what it means – “a devil’s egg”?

Asote

P.S. Unfortunately (or thanks to God), In Latvian we do not have such an expression…

THELMA September 16, 2009 at 1:53 pm

Dearest Swannie, beautiful.. I have never thought of Θέλημα as meaning also ‘desire to do something, to be occupied, or to be in prominence’.

To be occupied!! It is true.. My mind is always … occupied and full of .. love, music, beauty and dreams!!
LOVE you,
Mamma Θέλμα xxx

Alexandra September 16, 2009 at 3:18 pm

Thank you Annie.

Yoomi September 15, 2009 at 8:31 pm

I like me so much better when I’m not naked !

Love,

Yoomi

Ilva Asote September 15, 2009 at 9:34 pm

And when I am naked, dear Annie, my Fantasy Train is moving…
I am “al-Gharib” and I am “Shantay”.

Ilva Asote September 15, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Then… change your boyfriend! :D

Ilva Asote September 15, 2009 at 10:29 pm

Ohhh…. and I imagined that someone wanted to kill a Chicken…
How can I be so foolish? :D

Ilva Asote September 15, 2009 at 10:32 pm

Hrm — Hermes
What else? Any other ideas? :D

Heart September 16, 2009 at 2:04 am

I said Hrm… as a sound for questioning the meaning of what Paulo said to Ilva. Is Hrm an Norwegian abbreviation? God, I don’t know if I think Norwegian or English anymore :)

I was just scratching my head wondering…but that is Ilva’s and Paulo’s business..I’m not curious…or am I?

Ilva Asote September 16, 2009 at 11:48 am

Dear Hear,

You are right, it’s MY and PAULO’s business. Our secret – the secret of two…

“The secret of two is God’s secret, the secret of three is everybody’s secret”

Much Love,
Asote

Ilva Asote September 16, 2009 at 11:50 am

Hear — Heart (sorry… mistake, dear Zuzu!)

Heart September 16, 2009 at 4:31 pm

Ilva dear…we respect that…Aditya is curious too, and God dosn’t give us anything to keep to our selves!

Have another great day or evening or night!

Love and Admiration,
Heart

Ilva Asote September 16, 2009 at 4:58 pm

Dear Heart,

“A secret is a weapon and a friend. MAN IS GOD’S SECRET, Power is man’s secret, Sex is woman’s secret”
- James Stephens

Love,
Ilva

Ilva Asote September 18, 2009 at 2:33 pm

Dearest Annie,

I think this is one of the brightest quotes of Confucius:

“Woman who wear something from Victoria’s Secret, have no more secrets.”

By the way, it’s my favorite! That’s why I prefer to stay naked… :D

With Love,
Asote

Ilva Asote September 15, 2009 at 11:09 pm

“Patience” is a naked woman lying down with her legs apart under a banana tree.” /Confucius/

I guess, Annie, NOW (when I’m naked) I have to turn from Monkey into a Woman “Patience”.

Yours,
Asotite – lying down (and not dancing) under a banana tree :D

Ilva Asote September 15, 2009 at 11:25 pm

When I am naked, Annie, I imagine that I am Eve…
But..lying down naked.. I prefer that my Fantasy Train moves…not me… I prefer to be a lovely “pet” of my Adam and never be too close to him…That is my Paradise. My Heaven.

Annie, Kalinka in Chess means:

Red Berry — The Snow Ball Tree — “virginity”

Ilva Asote September 16, 2009 at 12:06 am

Alice appears in front of the White Rabbit…
And she /Alice/, not Rabbit, is crying: “oh dear! oh dear! I shall be too late!” The White Rabbit follows her down the “Alice’s hole” into… Wonderland.

Ilva Asote September 16, 2009 at 12:10 am

You see, Alice is not patient! Not at all. :D
Ok, enough for today.
Alice is going to bed! :)

THELMA September 16, 2009 at 7:50 am

Hi Catherine Martinez!! I hope everything is wonderful with your life..
“Imagine if everyone … was telling the truth”!!! Everyone to be .. transparent.. New values, new … loves.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

sido66 September 16, 2009 at 10:15 am

Dear Thelma,

i like not lie , and I like to say “I do not lie never”, the confidence may be Total
I often to my son, since I think that the honesty with oneself and the other is so important

I talked to my son a history, so that it should understand the importance of not lie :
It is the history of Pierre, a small berger. Day , he cried “wolf! Wolf! ” And shepherds’ ran toward him to come to its aid , but Pierre is”, to them when they arrived.
Another day , Pierre cria to new “Wolf! Wolf!” and the other shepherds arrived to the rescue , but Pierre is”, again to them.
But one day , a genuine loup arrived before the herd and before Pierre . Frightened , he cried terrified ” Wolf!Wolf! ” … Nobody came to its aid .
Pierre was eat by the wolf !!

Because a liar is never thought …

Thus the love is also the honesty toward every man, and to oneself to grow in each the confidence and love for all

Love
Sido

sido66 September 16, 2009 at 12:22 pm

Correction of my post. sorry for the bad translation:

should read “Pierre gibe to them (laughs at his joke)” and not “Pierre is”

THELMA September 16, 2009 at 1:48 pm

Dear Sido, thank you for reminding us this wise story. My father used to tell it to us when I was very, very small and I remember every time I felt so sorry for the lying shepherd!!
I hate lies, I never say.. To be a liar you must have a perfect memory or, for sure, you will be caught and be .. ridiculed and humiliated.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Heart September 17, 2009 at 2:41 am

sometimes I can listen to one melody over and over again. This is one of them, and then my thoughts just floats in the rhythm of the music.

By the way, I just read Paulo’s comment to Paul that Chris, his wife just laughs, when women are stalking him. In fact, something funny happened last time I visited my husband, Mike at work. One of his female co-workers passed him and said; ‘Hiiiiiii Mike’ and another female co-worker asked me how I like my husband to be a celebrity? So I told her, I like it because it keeps him young :)

Dream on young lady!
Heart

Alexandra September 17, 2009 at 7:12 am

iT MEANS GIVE ME YOUR HAND
AN INVITATION TO DANCE
OHHH
I AM ASHAME NOW
THANK YOU AGAIN
LOVE
ALEXANDRA

aditya September 17, 2009 at 2:17 pm

second that !

strange things happen in life. but what drives a person to stalk another, why not ask that lady to answer, what is her side of the story.

i can understand your pain dear paul, but why is she stalking you, have u asked her ?

all this talk about going after one’s dreams can send one down the wrong lane too. a simple rule as suggested by thelma helps us remain civiised ‘my rights end where another’s begins’ but for people who are ‘in love’ sanity is not always a companion.

love
aditya

Rainy September 17, 2009 at 10:47 pm

Dear Catherine,

thanks for your ending of the poem…- positive like it should be! Like life should be! A life which is brightened by love. By the way- the German version had rhymes.


And fill your life with dreams
And fill your life with hopes
Look back
And forget
Leave your sorrows home
Cut away the ropes
Fill your hopes with life
Fill your life with love
And live your love all time
Look up to the sky
And smile
And tell the moon
You won’t ever die

Beijinhos,
Rainer

THELMA September 18, 2009 at 8:48 am

Oh Swannie you have such a rich fantasy and find … solutions for everything..
You know.. ?! After that Steinway Treasure… I am going to be an even more modern Mamma!! I am going to buy an MP3 and listen while …. cleaning!! So there will be no … wasted time.. My daughter was telling me about mp3 but I was not seeing any use.. Now I know! [Everyday we ... 'know' something...!! ]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

THELMA September 18, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Swannie, in the morning I was going on my way to buy the mp3 and start … dancing with the … broomstick!! But on my way a friend told me: Why don’t you buy an …. iphod?? So … here I am again, to have to … decide ;-] Always there exists another … Path!!!! So now I am smiling at myself… The best choice is … nothing!!
Have a nice Friday afternoon.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Gil September 19, 2009 at 10:39 pm

Hi Annie.

I’ll translate my text (small speech for a linguistic teacher actually) to english. I don’t trust those translating sites that much hehe.

Thanks,

Gil

Heart September 20, 2009 at 4:21 pm

a Soda pop… yeah really good for you :) especially when you have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner…

sido66 September 21, 2009 at 11:49 am

écoutez la voix des personnes âgées est parfois un son délicat pour notre âme…

Listen to the voices of older persons is sometimes a its delicate for our soul…
a story for you ,told by jeffrey Davis:

1000 Marbles !

The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it’s the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it’s the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable. A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the basement shack with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning, turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time.

Let me tell you about it.

I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice. You know the kind, he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling whoever he was talking with something about “a thousand marbles”.

I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say. “Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you’re busy with your job. I’m sure they pay you well but it’s a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. Too bad you missed your daughter’s dance recital.”

He continued, “let me tell you something Tom, something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own priorities.”

And that’s when he began to explain his theory of a “thousand marbles.”

“You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years.”

“Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900 which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now stick with me Tom, I’m getting to the important part.”

“It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail”, he went on, “and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy.”

“So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round-up 1000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside of a large, clear plastic container right here in the shack next to my gear.”

“Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away.”

“I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.”

“Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time.”

“It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band. 73 Old Man, this is K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!”

You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about.

I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter.

Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. “C’mon honey, I’m taking you and the kids to breakfast.”

“What brought this on?” she asked with a smile.

“Oh, nothing special, it’s just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. Hey, can we stop at a toy store while we’re out? I need to buy some marbles.”

(Jeffrey Davis )

THELMA September 23, 2009 at 6:37 am

You see dearest Swannie and dearest Paul, [equal hour of night and day - Fall Equinox] PERFECT BALANCE and HARMONY !!! My birthday. It seems that this is the AIM for me in this life: To achieve Balance!! Law and Order! ;-] Thank you for being there this year and hopefully for the rest of my journey.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Catherine September 23, 2009 at 11:16 am

that’s beautiful
thanks Annie ;o)

THELMA September 23, 2009 at 7:50 am

YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU TOO!!! SW-Annie!
LOVE,
Mamma Thelma xxx

THELMA September 23, 2009 at 10:53 am

I was reading somewhere, Esoteric Astrology I think, that the Scales is the Sign to find our way up-wards and break the .. circle! The SPIRAL. I think Paulo Coelho has to teach us some from his Wisdom in this respect.
I wish Swannie that I will find the courage to … use my wings and fly; My piano, not the Broomstick!!! ;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Ilva Asote September 24, 2009 at 11:24 pm

Annieeee!
All my applause to you!!! :D
You are great!!!!
By the way, where is your ORANGE T-shirt??? ^^ ^^
Kisses! :)
Ilva

Heart September 25, 2009 at 2:19 am

Annieee baby sis!!!! You look gorgeous, and singing for us. Are you for real??? Your eyes look very beautiful!!!

Thank you, great first shot, just GREAT :))

Elaine Stevens September 25, 2009 at 2:20 am

Namaste Annie,
Beautiful!

Love to you

Theresa Goubran-Keshta September 25, 2009 at 2:36 am

Thank you, Annie, for being so brave! You really look lovely.

Alexandra September 25, 2009 at 6:15 am

HIIIII. How cute you are! You look mmuch better life than in pic. And you have very tender voice, you very kind . Finally, I hope all the others will do the same. The song was aqn extra thing, for that further thanks. Take care
Love
Alexandra
P.S. How you did with the sound?

THELMA September 25, 2009 at 7:23 am

My beautiful Swannie, you are even sweeter and brighter on the camera. Now I understand why I do not like photos; they miss the movement and sound. You are a living poem. Keep singing your song. LOVE you and sending my best wishes for your dreams to come true.[You know how wishes stay in our Aura..]
LOVE,
Mamma, Thelma xxx

maria-dove September 25, 2009 at 8:30 am

Dear Annie,
you are and look amazing you are so sweet and brave too!
I can’t hear you though maybe i am having a problem with microphone.
With Love
Maria-Dove.

Carolena Sabah September 25, 2009 at 10:29 am

Hi Annieeee!!! So Sweet! And beautiful voice too!

Great to see you sis!! :D

Kisses!

Liina.L September 25, 2009 at 10:55 am

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Liina.L September 25, 2009 at 5:47 pm

Annie: how could I not sing if You asked so nicely?! Besides – we are all one, so we have to keep the links together.

:) Nice proposition!
PS! You look nothing like Your picture. But both are beautiful anyways.

Love,
Liina

Paulo Coelho September 24, 2009 at 11:31 pm

great! Finally I can see your face.
love
Paulo

Nancy September 25, 2009 at 12:16 am

Annie, you and suphi are taking this blog to the next level. The sound for the first video was very low, but I had my headphone on so I heard what you said. Have a good night too!

I do not like being infront of cameras or videos, so the idea is not for me. It is nice to see them.

Heart September 25, 2009 at 2:22 am

yOU LOOK GREAT!! aRE YOU KIDDING ME?? This is so much fun. My computer screwed up when I tried today, so will try again this week end :))

Hope September 25, 2009 at 7:35 am

You look great Annie! Thank you for the song.
Your sister on roof.

Savita Vega September 25, 2009 at 2:05 pm

Yes, Heart is right – you look splendid, Annie. Beautiful!

Daniel September 25, 2009 at 3:57 am

Hi Annie, and I love your thoughts! Yes, the opposite, I meant if they truly believed they will die. I recently studied a course called “I may die today”, and it is amazing when you sit and contemplate it how many thoughts you have around the fact that you won’t die. For instance, “of course I won’t die today, I bought a weekly bus ticket, and I’m going out to lunch with my friends tomorrow”. But when you get rid of this, accept that you may die, you live in the moment, not wasting any time with thoughts about plans you have made for tomorrow, which may or may not happen, and you don’t put off doing things.

I’m not so sure about transformation. Where does the wood exist once it is burned? In the past? And where does the past exist? Or the future? I think it only exists in your mind as thoughts.

I see your point about everything changing, never ending, sort of like re-birth? When I think of it though I arrive at a point where nothing ever ends, but everything does. :-D

With love, Daniel

THELMA September 25, 2009 at 7:25 am

NO Annie, we cannot see nothing either! Oh Savita, try again..
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

maria-dove September 25, 2009 at 9:39 am

Dear Annie,
i am so impressed from your knowledge in alchemy so young yet so wise!
I think we have a lot to learn from you!
With Love
Maria-Dove

rosa de los vientos September 25, 2009 at 11:27 pm

I like very much Annie

THELMA September 25, 2009 at 11:42 am

Swannie, you see mamma managed to make it …. the third time!! And then I could only think of saying …. I love YOU!!!
Pink is a nice colour for … baby girls!!!! ;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Daniel September 25, 2009 at 1:32 pm

Paulo has his very own Eurovision! :D

THELMA September 25, 2009 at 1:36 pm

Kisses, Swannie! The … orange pullover looks nice!!!
You are a ..real bee, now ;-] Now I have seen your studio.
Φιλάκια!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Savita Vega September 25, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Dear Annie,
You have such a beautiful voice!

Yesterday: I am about to watch one of your clips and, while waiting for the video to load, I step out of the room. (With my slow internet connection, it takes a few moments.) My computer is sitting on my desk, in front of an open window, and my daughter is sitting on the floor, below, playing with toys. All of a sudden, I hear my daughter screaming, “Mama, mama! Come quick!” So I run back into the study, “What? What is it?!” “There’s someone in the yard,” she says, “I think it’s an angel!” “What do you mean? Where?!” I ask, rather alarmed. (Where we live, no one walks into our yard ‘accidentally,’ and this is the back yard – no one should be there.) I stick my face up to the window: “Where? Where did you see someone?” “I didn’t SEE anyone,” she says, “I heard them! I heard an angel singing outside the window!” At that moment, I look down at my computer screen and realize: “Ah!” I say, “So you did! That angel is Annie. See!”

With Love,
Savita

Catherine September 25, 2009 at 2:14 pm

Annie -
encore!
ps. .. u r more beautiful in real life!! ;o)
x

Pandora September 25, 2009 at 3:33 pm

Dear Annie

YOU are BEAUTIFUL, and a BEAUTIFUL VOICE too,

Lots of love
XXX

Heart September 25, 2009 at 4:05 pm

Annie, Yr so talented! I think you need to be DISCOVERED!!

I’m so proud of you sis! I love your singing. sing more, more :)

Yumi September 25, 2009 at 5:28 pm

Annie!

You are beautiful and you look very intelligent, too..

It’s so nice to see your face and hear your voice..

Love, Yumi

deylun September 25, 2009 at 6:43 pm

How old are you Annie?

* Deylun *

rosa de los vientos September 25, 2009 at 9:50 pm

Me gusta mucho ver que Annie, eres hermosa y cantar como un ángel. Savita su dougther decir la verdad.
¡Oh, me gusta mucho ver que all aquí.
Kises para usted Annie le debe a la Maama Thelma feeling pround of you and me too.

deylun September 26, 2009 at 12:20 am

Siento por no haberme presentado antes, puede parecer de muy mal gusto; mi nombre es estefania, nacida en españa especificamente en el mediterraneo :)

Perdona por si te ha molestado el haberte preguntado tu edad, pero en el video me has parecido una chiquita de 19 años, pero aun así eres una persona con los pies en la tierra.
Sobre tu canción, sinceramente admiro el valor que has tenido de haber colgado este video; yo también canto pero tengo miedo a lo que los demas digan, suena absurdo porque un guerrero de la luz tiene que darle igual pero proviene de una historia larga ; desde bien pequeñita, mi madre me oyo cantar, su contestación fue lo que lo hacia fatal, desde entonces, cada dia me persigue ese momento, no me lo puedo quitar de la cabeza y eso repercute a que me desaliente cantar. Que opinas sobre eso, annie?

*Deylun*

Daniel September 26, 2009 at 3:17 am

Annie, a fellow archer! There are 10 years and 12 days between us. You should wear a sign “Sagittarius” to warn older men with impertinent questions! ;-)

Knowing how to do something is knowledge. Doing it is wisdom. This has nothing to do with age other than it may take some people years to realise it! “Age” would be a great discussion I think!

Savita Vega September 27, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Thanks, Heart, and Annie! We did have a wonderful celebration. In fact, the guests are STILL here. (Everyone else is still sleeping). I love celebrations that go on for several days, in the traditions of the old ways – like when guests had to travel so far to get to a party that they often stayed over several days, until all the food and drink ran out.

And when are WE going to get to see you playing the piano, Annie? I can’t wait!

Much Love,
Savita

THELMA September 25, 2009 at 2:29 pm

WorldVision, dear Daniel!!! ;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Alexandra September 25, 2009 at 3:52 pm

You all sooo brave. Thats a wonderful moment!Thank you all!
Alexandra with LOve

Liina.L September 25, 2009 at 5:55 pm

Annie and everyone who has trouble with the microphone or sound:

I think the trick is to have a webcam with already built in microphone. At least when I tried the same thing with the other mirophone, it did not work. (I have both, webcam mic and the general mic).

And if You have a webcam with built in microphone, then if You use programs like skype, msn or whatever that uses video talk, You have to change in those programs the settings – choose the webcams mic.
It should give You at least two options, one should be a webcam’s mic.

That would be for Windows XP users. I don’t know about others. Sorry.

All best,
Liina

Paulo Coelho September 25, 2009 at 8:18 pm

I’m glad you asked. I did not dare, but her posts here are great

rosa de los vientos September 25, 2009 at 11:39 pm

Annie me laugh with this.
Is a very good idea ” The age”

deylun September 25, 2009 at 11:55 pm

Ok annie! lo siento por no presentarme, puede aparentar de muy mal gusto; mi nombre es estefanía y nacida en españa :)

Perdona por preguntarte tu edad pero en el video me parecio ver a una chiquita de 19 años…
La canción que cantaste, me gusto mucho y admiro el valor que tienes para mostrarlo; yo también canto y adoro el piano, es uno de los instrumentos que tengo debilidad por el cada vez que oigo una sola nota, pero tengo miedo del que diran los demás, desde bien pequeña, una vez mi madre me oyó cantar y su respuesta fue que lo hacia mal, desde entonces siempre recuerdo ese momento cada vez que canto y eso me desalienta a seguir cantando. A eso que me puedes decir annie?

*Deylun*

Heart September 26, 2009 at 4:42 pm

How funny. Seems older men enjoy to talk to you sis! So he didn’t believe you ha! I wonder if we could find a term for ‘undetermined age’, as I have been guessed all kinds of ages too. Once, I was guessed ten years OLDER. That I didn’t like!!!! (was a little child who guessed)

After I passed 25 years…when someone asks I always answers; ‘Never ask a lady her age!!!’ or ‘I’m 25!!!’

Love and Adore you,
Heart
xoxoxox

Heart September 26, 2009 at 4:39 pm

Oh Savita & Annie,

This is soooo adorable. Your daughter is an angel herself, and yes so is Annie, and YOU TOO Savita!

Kisses,
Heart

Heart September 26, 2009 at 4:52 pm

Mee too Rosa :))

Daniel September 26, 2009 at 9:13 pm

Thanks Annie! We are all movie stars now are we not? ;-) If only we could get two into one video at once, you and Liina could sing a duet for us!

After this week’s forum and quote, and these videos I am imagining a gathering of WOLs where everything is laughter, singing and music, and a thousand conversations at once where everyone feels free to contribute, and no subject is forbidden.

With love, Daniel

rosa de los vientos September 27, 2009 at 3:27 am

Yes perhaps we can sing to Paulo, all together now Daniel, is a good idea.
Thank you

Liina.L September 27, 2009 at 9:30 am

:D

Daniel,
I’ve thought of that one myself – a gathering like You described here, with the WOL’s.

Ps! Annie, funny dream, You had. Have You considered that it could be both, the first and the alternative meaning?

Love,
Liina

deylun September 26, 2009 at 9:47 pm

Gracias por tu bello consejo! Annie, de que pais eres?

deylun September 26, 2009 at 11:15 pm

Gracias por tu consejo annie! perdona porque te pregunte tanto pero de que zona del reino unido eres? supongo que eres britanica, me has dado esa sensación…

Hope September 26, 2009 at 11:33 pm

I dont know and I dont speak

Daniel September 27, 2009 at 2:56 am

I’m still not so sure Annie! Do the ashes remember being wood? Do they think “I wish I could be wood again, and the flames hurt so much”? And does the smoke whisper about it’s past life as a tree as it floats into the atmosphere?

Memory is a thought. Yes it does help define who we become, but I don’t believe my thoughts are what I am, not in my heart.

“He will have to forget for ever his history of pain and suffering, and accept that he is a new person who has just been reborn and that, from now on, he will be reborn every day”.
-The Zahir

Every day new. Newborn!

With love, Daniel

rosa de los vientos September 27, 2009 at 3:07 am

Beautiful song Annie, I like very much. My friends singing this son.
The Chail is inside.
With all my love.

rosa de los vientos September 27, 2009 at 3:22 am

Besos para ti también

Joël September 27, 2009 at 2:10 pm

cobblestone is symbolic for the resistance (problems) that you have to defeat in your live

Savita Vega September 27, 2009 at 2:46 pm

Feeling a bit the same way myself, Annie. Just last night I was trying to watch several of the videos and feeling sharply discontented with this little bundle of technology with which I was perfectly satisfied only a week ago – going through a list in my head of the renovations that “must” be done to my computer system “immediately”: a web cam (otherwise, I have to make videos on my camera, download them to my computer, then upload them to the blog), a faster internet connection (which is not available where I live, but, without which, it takes ten minutes to watch a one minute clip), and a headset or speakers, so that I can actually hear people talking without quieting everyone in the house and pressing my ear to the laptop’s speaker. Funny how we humans can become so discontented so quickly, perfectly fed up with the very things which gave us pleasure only the day before.

Wishing you the very best with your computer. Just don’t kill the thing – otherwise, we won’t have your bright light shining here, to admire. Better a slow connection than none at all.

With Love,
Savita

Satora September 27, 2009 at 3:42 pm

Dearest Annie,

The truth is not always found in a “word” you hear or see, but sometimes you will hear and see “the truth” in the empty spaces between the letters … which are inscribed in your heart…

And about speaking…sometimes less is more…

With loving kindness,

Satora

Marie September 27, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Yes, I think that subject ” to speak and to listen ” is interesting. For me, it’s necessary to exchange in listening and in word.
In listening because we do not hear out of necessity the same thing.
In word because we do not put out of necessity the same thing behind words.
It seems to me that to share our truths, it’s to make effort to be comprehensible in the others.
Annie, we are all, timid or afraid for certain things. Sometimes, fact to speak about it allows to free itself and to realize that they made ” a mountain ” of a small clod of earth! o)

As said Satora, not verbal communication has is importance. For ourselves. Can we like to share it ? ;-)

Light & Love,

Heart September 27, 2009 at 7:08 pm

Savita… Windows 7 is coming out next month and will hopefully be much better than Vista!!! From what I hear, people having the beta version of Windows 7, it’s promising when it comes to speed. Vista is so damn slow.
Heart

Heart September 27, 2009 at 7:16 pm

Aqgree, just a little summary, if people want to. Hey Annie I didn’t know you are an Computer expert, even though you don’t like to admit it :) Actually, your direction on how to go to Control panel and adjust the sound helped me to turn up the sound to max here. Still its too quite voices. I noticed you sit closer to the computer on one of the shots. I’ll try that next time. And then we can always TALK LOUD :D (had to try this tongue constantly out on you ;))

Hehe Take over the world!!! At least feel On top of the world once in awhile :)

(Had any sex on the roof yet :)))

Love you mikroteri athelfi,
Heart

deylun September 27, 2009 at 7:23 pm

Querida annie,

Se me ha iluminado la cara cuando he visto tu contestación porque es grandioso poder contactar con una persona de un pais diferente al tuyo.

Me has hecho reir con la expresion de “ser la oveja negra de la familia” jaja, a mi me pasa igual que a ti. Para que te hagas una idea, naci en alicante, en una comunidad distinta de la que estoy hoy en dia.
Siempre me he considerado una persona libre, con ganas de vivir intensamente y ver mundo, como el protagonista del alquimista; por lo tanto a los 19 años, me enamoré de un chico y la locura que se tiene al amar a una persona en esos años, el resultado fue que me large de casa . Duré mas o menos 2 años , el motivo fue que él no cuido la relación y en medio de la tempestad por la que pasaba, dios me mostro una luz, una persona que tenia su propia luz. Esta persona, gracias él, me devolvio la sonrisa y todas aquellas cosas que habia perdido por el camino.
Ya ves, a unos padres no le gusta tener a una hija que se fue de casa a los 19 años sino que les gustaria mas bien que hubiese terminado una carrera y estar ahora bien colocada como cualquier ser humano normal.

Mi madre nunca acepto tampoco que me gustara la musica, reconozco que canto normal, no para dedicarme a ello, pero me hirio mucho aquel comentario que te dije. Aparte de esto, otra cosa que me encanta hacer y se me van las horas sin saber, es escribir y dibujar por eso me identifico mucho con paulo.

Estudié administrativo pero lo que siempre me lleno es estudiar algo relacionado con letras como periodismo pero en estos momentos no puedo hacerlo por varios motivos, una por la edad, segundo porque ahora mismo estoy con una persona y la tercera y la mas importante porque se relaciona con las otras dos, es, que si yo por ejemplo estudiase periodismo me tendria que ir a vivir a grandes ciudad por lo que en eso no estoy tan de acuerdo, comprendes! Por eso estoy hecha un lio, lo único que se es que quiero escribir.

*Deylun*

Ilva Asote September 27, 2009 at 8:02 pm

I’m in Latvia, Annie.
In Netherlends I’m going to stay just for 2-3 days. My “Inner Coach” Gharib says it’s enough for “work”. :D
Love,
Ilva

Heart September 27, 2009 at 11:36 pm

hehe..keep it in the family…officially I’m 25 :) No kiddo, yr fine. I’m pretty happy with my age, as I’ve found the fountain of youth…Paulo’s blog :)

Ilva Asote September 27, 2009 at 11:59 pm

OK, Annie, I’ll take an ORANGE picture!!! :D
I am curious also what it will be…
Are we two curious CATS…!? :)
Love,
Ilva

deylun September 28, 2009 at 4:36 pm

Querida annie!

No es molestia preguntar mi edad, tengo 24 años. Sé que aun soy una chiquita y tengo vida por delante por recorrer, pero a veces la vida se complica y debes observar los caminos que te puedan conducir para alcanzar tu sueño.
Lo que me molesta es que la gente de tu alrededor te pregunta a que te dedicas y tu al responder que no has llegado a ninguna universidad para hacer una carrera, parece que te miren como un bicho raro, y eso me molesta mucho. Pero he llegado a una conclusión y que a partir de ahora voy a hacer lo que mas me gusta: escribir.

*Deylun*

deylun September 28, 2009 at 5:04 pm

Querida annie!

No es molestia preguntar mi edad, tengo 24 años. Sé que aun soy una chiquita y tengo vida por delante por recorrer, pero a veces la vida se complica y debes observar los caminos que te puedan conducir para alcanzar tu sueño.
Lo que me molesta es que la gente de tu alrededor te pregunta a que te dedicas y tu al responder que no has llegado a ninguna universidad para hacer una carrera, parece que te miren como un bicho raro, y eso me molesta mucho. Pero he llegado a una conclusión y que a partir de ahora voy a hacer lo que mas me gusta: escribir.

*Deylun*

Catherine September 28, 2009 at 9:35 pm

i’ll just be happy if it is pink and talks about listening to the heart ;o)

Johanne Mercille September 28, 2009 at 9:37 pm

Dear Annie, thank you. So are a sweet person, kind one. You make me smile when I read “you are brave”, and that you want me to remind it. Yes, I know. All is all right, just a passage to go through, another one … And yes I took time for your hug … and since I saw you on a video, well, I can visualize it more and feel it more and feel confident in it. :-) Love and Gratitude for you too, Annie. Jojo.

rosa de los vientos September 28, 2009 at 11:24 pm

Mi querida Annie, gracias por tu amor es hermoso y estoy muy contento de tener el mismo nombre que su grandmather.
Una rosa para ti, porque es una hermosa flor, me gusta mucho.

Savita Vega September 29, 2009 at 12:59 am

Yes, Annie, I was thinking much of you and your passion for horses yesterday – remembering the link that you shared with us a week or so ago. Several of the horses there, including the 35-year-old tag along, who went without a rider, were horses that had been rescued from abuse or from purchase by the meat-packing houses (the places where they make them into dog food).

Yes, our dreams (our joys) – we abuse those too, neglect them… and, unfortunately, sell them out or abandon them in the profane ways. We seldom give them the free rein they need to lead us where we need to be.

Love,
Savita

Savita Vega September 29, 2009 at 1:04 am

Yes, I still have that strong suspicion myself. It is sometimes almost like you can see the patterns repeated, although, as you say, each is still unique.

candieb September 29, 2009 at 9:50 am

Bonjour Catherine!Oui c’est absolument tragique!En arriver là,il faut vraiment etre mal en point!Esperons que le massacre s’arretera!Bonne journée

Ankita September 29, 2009 at 11:17 am

there are times when ppl walk upto me and say hi, and i hi back at them although i don’t really know them, then my rfiends say hi to me at malls, or ask me why i didn’t talk to them, and i don’t really know who they spoke to…weird i want to see that girl, they say there are 7 look alikes, why seven, odd number?hummmm

Alexandra September 29, 2009 at 2:15 pm

You too are so lovely, and was you to give the start. Thank you for all your support and kind words . You are a very sweet person, God bless you, dear.

Marie September 29, 2009 at 4:59 pm

Much much thank Annie, I love too this song ;o) So sweet moment to listen for me !!

It’s good tuesday…today !

Light & Love,

Alexandra September 30, 2009 at 7:04 am

Great song, and was live!!! Thanks.
Love
Alexandra

Alexandra September 29, 2009 at 9:47 pm

Maybe was ” THe right moment”.
Love
Alexandra

Catherine September 30, 2009 at 11:31 am

glad you enjoyed Alexandra…
It’s a song that can make me smile no matter what!!!

Hope September 30, 2009 at 4:53 pm

I will Annie :) Thnx.

Hope September 30, 2009 at 4:54 pm

Thank you Cathrine.

aditya October 1, 2009 at 6:47 am

hi annie,

i am too like u and so i too didnot like it when women folks go into combat duties, one shudders at the prospect of them being captued alive by ignoble enemies. but maybe who knows, their is a story about one of the greatest empire building kings from india, king ashoka, whose capital happnes to be a few kilometres from my native place. the chap was brutal, he killed 100 of his brothers to get the kingdom and then he reletlessly expanded it, till his kingdom reached right upto afghanistan. but one event changed him permamnetly, his neighbouring kingdom kalinga refused surrender for a long time, he started a fight to finish. all men were killed, then finally kalinga princess joined the battle with friends. ashoka’s army managed to slay them all, but that day king ashoka was filled with such remorse that a devil became a disciple of lord buddha. so mysterious are his ways, we can only watch and marvel at the unfolding drama

love
aditya

sido66 October 1, 2009 at 3:16 pm

Yes Catherine , these meetings are so beautiful …

today , i pray for me (I prayed for others, but I realize that it is necessary that i also pray for me )

I must pray for me , and pray for me also , so that I grow in humility: That God keeps me not rejoice individually , and not feel “too important” of having received both of grace of its part , of Mary and the angels.
Amen

Catherine , that the celestial beings keeps us always on the path of the love of God we preserves and we guide. On this feast of the guardian angels : i bless God I have the honor to know His kindness through the angels and my guardian angel…[...]

Love
Sido

“That our path of Life is always a path of love , where that we are”

Heart October 2, 2009 at 1:21 am

Yes…did say that :) and feel honored to be ‘quoted’ :))

Although you being my lil sis will always be prejudiced and see the best in anything I do, just as I will to you too.

Hehe, batteries full, stage-manage the show…lost plots and colorful sunsets… Ops, almost forgot, I found a painting for you today…let me see if I can go and find it on google…Just a minute…

http://www.hanshofmann.net/art/goldenwall.htm

I have it in a much larger version here, and the orange is sooo shining. I thought there is an Alchemy quality to it. First of all it is manly orange, which is your color. Second, it’s called ‘The Golden Wall’ which is to transform orange into gold. Isn’t this such a great artistic interpretation of orange? And aren’t your our golden girl :))

Love,
Heart

THELMA October 2, 2009 at 7:24 am

Dearest Heart, you are right!! Here we are ‘spoiling’ each other!! But this is an aspect of love, I think. To be ‘open’ to what other’s say or do and give our .. applause! Just by .. encouraging and adore someone half of the … next step is done!
Beautiful painting with orange turning to .. golden, thank you.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

aditya October 2, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Hi Annie !

i see that u have full faith in god and its good to be in the compnay of teh faithful !

ya thelma dear friend, what else is more valuable than a love shared.

Hi heart !

i was merely trying to tease god(s),

Alex, it was not just me who sees this world as a stage where we all play our parts ( few consiously most withount knowing ), in pauo’s ‘article’ about law as a metaphor he spoke on similar lines. sometimes seeing teh injstice around me, the poverty, the helplessness, even the pain of affluence, i do get angry at god maybe like a child getting angry with its parents and the words just flew.

as annie says God will regain teh script even if it has lost it, actually it’s not lost,k we being at teh forfront of this expereince called earth, we are god’s spearheads, only problem is that we have forgotten it and we all are trying to become god, we alreday are, just loose your individual ego ( your views, opinions ) and see one self as part of teh whole then greed becomes impossible and one regains one’s status as spearhead of god, as a wol.

love
aditya

marie-christine October 3, 2009 at 11:34 am

HEE HA!
Beijos and :)

Carolena Sabah October 3, 2009 at 8:21 pm

Thank you so much Annie!
Hope to hear more of your singing!!
Kisses.

Pandora October 3, 2009 at 9:02 pm

Thank you Annie, Love, Love Love X 3

XXX

Hope October 3, 2009 at 11:25 pm

thnx Annie, yes I need to be

Hope October 4, 2009 at 10:32 am

Thany you!

Alexandra October 4, 2009 at 3:02 pm

Thank you Annie, I had a wonderful time. Met old friend and we laughed a lot, while listening street artists. Maybe later I share pictures if I succed to upload in pc.
Love
Alexandra

Heart October 4, 2009 at 4:53 pm

we need to find you a print or a poster at least :)

Big sis ;-D

carmen October 4, 2009 at 7:30 pm

No. No. No.
Nada de experiencias místicas, es más simple que todo eso, aunque es muy complejo.

Quiero decir lo siguiente:

- Todas las personas sabemos que es bueno y que no para cada uno de nosotros. A veces no lo sabemos y hay que descubrirlo.
- Todas las personas si se esfuerzan pueden aprender a dominarse. Quién se domina puedo controlar un poco su vida, quién no se domina es exclavo de sí mismo.
Aclaración: una cosa es querer algo de forma caprichosa, guiado por el repentino deseo del momento, y otra es lo que verdaderamente se quiere, una vez se ha reflexionado. Si yo me enfado contigo te quiero insultar, pero si me domino luego no me arrepentiré. Es decir, es mejor controlarse, aprender a dominarse. Puedes pensar, ah, pero si me insultas te desahogas, sí, claro. Pero luego es peor, puedo arrepentirme. Puede que ya no me perdones. Si no me perdonas tal, y así. Todo es una cadena. ¿Comprendes? Supongo que sí.

Lo que quiero decir es:

Cuando te das cuenta de ésto pones el freno. Obervas, ect. Intentas hacer las cosas mejor. Entonces ocurre una cosa muy curiosa. Cuánto mejor actúas más energía sientes. Claro, te estás controlando mucho, te sientes extraña. Es una energía muy fuerte y comprensible en cierto modo, aunque no la comprendo totalmente. Dices, si me he controlado, si estoy haciendo esto bien (y bien no es lo que digan los demás, sino tú, lo que tú consideres que está bien), ¿de cuántas cosas soy capaz? Es como que una vez que empiezas a controlarte y te dominas, eso te da mucho poder para seguir así. Ocurre una cosa. Vas acumulando esa energía, no sé, ese poder, no sé cómo llamarlo, y ese poder es tan grande y crece tanto que no es fácil de soportarlo. Es como si quemara. No sé explicarlo mejor, perdoname. O imagínate, tu eres un jarra, siempre estás llena por la mitad, de pronto, la jarra se llena ¿Entiendes? La jarra se siente rara. Es mejor que esté llena pero no estás acostumbrada a tener tanta agua. La primera reacción es querer tirar la mitad, quieres estar como siempre.

Cualquiera dirá, ah, entonces qué bien. Te controlas, haces lo que debes hacer (y repito, lo que tú crees que es bueno y no lo que la gente diga que es bueno para ti) y vas acuumulando buenas energías, es decir, vas dándote cuenta de que eres muy capaz, capaz de hacer miles de cosas geniales. No. Cuándo más crece ese poder más difícil resulta controlarte.

Ejemplo: soy capaz de hacer J y K. J y k son cosas buenas. Claro, he hecho A y B bien. Si he hecho A y B bien puedo hacer J y K. Sí, pero…. me siento rara, con mucha energía, necesito soltar energía. Entonces meto la pata. Es decir, hago H. H es peor que J y K, es bueno pero un poco peor, pero como es bueno, ¿por qué no hacerlo? !Me sobra energía! Entonces ocurre lo siguiente:
H es bueno pero es por que J y K. He perdido energía. Ahora me falta energía para hacer J y K. ¿Por qué no me he controlado? Creo que es porque una vez que aprendes estas cosas por propia experiencia acumulas una energía a la que el cuerpo no está acostumbrado y necesita soltarla de algún modo, cuando debería guardarla dentro. Eso creo. Es mejor guardarla y saber utilizarla para hacer J y K, porque aunque H es bueno, J y K son mejores.

¿Cómo se controla eso? ¿Cómo guardar esa energía o ese poder? No sé llamarlo de otra forma. Cuando empiezas a actuar bien es como si te sintiáses que vas a reventar. Es muy raro. Y cuánto más crece esa energía más ganas tienes de hacer algo precipitado, bueno, pero precipitado, algo bueno pero que te quitará esa energía. ¿Cómo te controlas para no hacer H, y poder hacer J y K? Esa energía que crece es tan grande que no se pude soportar fácilmente y al final si no la aguantas la pierdes. La pierdes si te dejas llevar y no te controlas y no piensas, y no actúas como sabes Tú que debes. (Y aquí no entran las terceras personas)

Esa energía es buena, crece rapidísimamente, pero es tan grande que no aguantarla dentro es muy complicado. Es como si te quemaras, no sé decirte.

Siento no poder explicártelo mejor, sé que es un lío. Un beso. Espero que respondas.

carmen October 4, 2009 at 7:45 pm

Hay Algo muy Grande ahí. Creo que existe algo muy Grande. Pero es muy difícil dominarse realmente. Pero creo si lo consigues tu vida se convierte en algo asombroso. No puedo explicarlo mejor. Hay Algo más. Algo que no vemos. Creo que sí actúas de acuerdo a tus principios te acercas Ahí. No es fácil. No lo es para nada. Es muy complejo, profundo y dudoso.

carmen October 4, 2009 at 8:07 pm

Haz una cosa si quieres entenderme, yo lo he hecho. No es fácil porque tenemos orgullo, pero hazlo y verás.
Mañana cuando te levantes piensa que te vas a morir. Piensa que tienes el día entero para hacer todo lo que tenías que hacer y que no has hecho.

¿No le has dicho a esa persona que la quieres? ¿Por qué no? ¿Por qué esa persona no te ha dicho que te quiere? Imainate que vas a morirte. ¿Se lo dirías? Vete y díselo, así, sin explicaciones. No le puedes decir que es un juego o un experimento.

Haz todo lo que no has hecho porque no te has atrevido. Di todo lo que siempre has querido decir y que nunca te has atrevido.

¿Cómo crees que vas a sentirte? No voy a decírtelo, hazlo y verás. Pero si dices que lo haces porque una chica te ha dicho que lo hagas no sirve. Hazlo porque en el fondo quieres hacerlo y liberarte.

Haces eso y alucinarás. Lo digo por experiencia propia. Sientes un poco de todo, verguenza,osadía, tímidez, etc. Pero te sientes BIENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN. La gente alucina, se intimida. Da igual. Luego no te miran igual, tú no te ves igual a los demás, tu vida ha cambia totalmente. Empiezas de nuevo.

No esperes a morrite para decir lo que piensas. Si quieres saber de que hablo haz esto. Te sentirás luego con una energía que quema.

carmen October 4, 2009 at 8:23 pm

Una cosa última, puse una palabra inadecuada, la he buscado en el diccionario.

No es intimidar. Pensaba que intimidar venía de timidez. Pero no, es de miedo.

Cuándo haces esto la gente no se queda intimidada, se queda en estado de shock, es como que reacciona, luego te ven de otra forma, porque has ido con tu verdad por delante. Quedan muy extrañados. Luego nada vuelve a ser como antes, pero merece la pena. Es como decirles, pienso esto, soy así, ¿de acuerdo? Lo respetan. Es mejor no esperar a morirte para decir lo que piensas y ser quién eres, pero hay que tener mucho valor. El valor está ahí, en todos. Si alguien quiere cambiar su vida que haga eso. Es un paso inmenso y alucinante. Eso sí, hay que hacerlo de verdad, a lo grande. No valen las medias tintas.

Bien, ya aclaré lo de la palabra.

marie-christine October 5, 2009 at 10:46 am

Merci Catherine, malheureusement je ne peux qu’entendre la premiere minute, le reste est sous silence…?
Je me souviens avoir vu un documentaire sur “Arte” dans laquelle il disait que la cure pour le cancer etait deja trouve depuis un bon moment par un francais. Ils en avaient la preuve – c’etait dans une sorte d’eprouvette -
Bien sure il y a toujours le pour et le contre – le systeme de la dualite –
Je vais re-essayer un peu plus tard – on ne sait jamais -
Bien a toi,
Marie-Christine

Ilva Asote October 5, 2009 at 12:11 pm

My Personal Legend is the Legend of the World. That is why my TASK is to tell about it. I had to keep silence for 3 years. But now I think it’s TIME to tell about it. Step by step. Walking on the swords…
Well, as you can see pic is not more available on Twitter. BUT it was there for 11 hours. I’ll try to post it later again. Anyway, now when you are on Twitter you can follow Paulo! :D

Alexandra October 5, 2009 at 5:04 pm

Sounds interesting…

Ilva Asote October 6, 2009 at 8:38 pm

I will. With the help of Paulo’s mystical “coruja” and my Gharib.

Ilva Asote October 11, 2009 at 12:53 pm

About “Coruja” from the Planet “M-101″:
I’m going to post my “conversation” with the “bird” after the midnight. Starry, starry night…!

Ilva Asote October 12, 2009 at 12:11 am

From Monday till Monday:

When I looked at the photo of an “owl” (coruja) I said to me: “I do not care who created this sculpture. I do not care what he who created it, wanted to tell to us. I do not care what this mystical creature meant for him/her. But I do care what God wants to say to me if He puts it on my Way.”

So, I decided to “re-creat” the mystical creature and to understand His Message.

***

- “Bugul Noz, Bugul Nozssss… What are you holding in your hands?” I asked.
- “My target,” he answered.
- “Why are you standing on the stone?” I continued.
- “I’m standing on my promises,” he replied.

To “hold the target” means “to have no sin” (“hamartia” in the Bible; “sin” = “to miss the target” – in archery). “Bugul Noz” = “Night Shepherd” (Monday – the day of Moon; the day of night).

Traditionally we can meet “Bugul Noz” in Breton mythology (as a “part” of French mythology). But I’m not talking about “traditional” mythology… Not at all.

How is that possible to talk to the sculpture? When looking at it you feel gentle and humble of heart, nothing is impossible.

Well, I gave my white silk gloves to my Bugul Noz and seems he liked my gift very much.

When I asked about his eyes, he answered: “Greet” my legs, not my eyes… Under his “coat: he has smooth soft (peach) skin like a Baby’s…

***

If my signs were yours… But it’s not so. That is why I asked my “Teacher” for some help.

“Look in the mirror!” he said. “If the mirror is clean enough you will see the Truth.”

Yes, there are times when the simpliest mirror can turn into a crystal ball. When it happens, the man can see the most marvelous things looking in it.

I got paralysed for a while when looked in it. Instead of my face I looked at the man who posted the photo of my “Bugul Noz”, but behind him was standing… Jorge Luis Borges in his late fifties… He, Borges, was holding “The Book of Imaginary Beings”…

Yes! A BAO A QU! – the creature with no eyes, blind (like Borges).

“If one wishes to gaze upon the most marvelous landscape in the world, one must go to the topmost story of the Tower of Victory (…) On the staircase of the Tower, there has lived from the beginning of time the A Bao A Qu (…) When a person climbs the stairs, the A Bao A Qu follows almost on the person’s heels, climbing up after him, clinging to the edge of the curved treads worn down by the feet of generations of pilgrims (…)”

The A Bao A Qu can see with its entire body. He reaches perfection when the climber reaches the top. What means that climber’s acts didn’t cast any shadows…

Yes, he’s not bad this Borges! He turned my “BUGUL NOZ” into someone’s “A BAO A QU”.

***

I love to say that one who knows Victory, knows Happiness. I truly believe in it.

Down through all centuries, the A Bao A Qu has reached perfection only once. But I believe, when a Man follows the Star (like three Magi followed the star of Bethlehem), he may reach the top of the Tower of Victory and help his A Bao A Qu to reach his perfection again – for the second time.

With Love,
Ilva

Ilva Asote October 24, 2009 at 11:26 pm

When A Bao A Qu starts to shine, all clocks go back…

Just Time knows ‘when’ and ‘where’ A Bao A Qu brings the Chintamani Stone – Treasure of the World.

Asote October 30, 2009 at 7:54 pm

Bugul Noz, Bugul Nozssss…

When he tried to talk about “Halloween… Baby”, I couldn’t understand his message. Just after some time I realised what it was:

“Hello [he greeted me], wean… the baby.”

So, I’ve decided to “wean” my “baby”, the Chintamani Stone, in All Saints’ Day. But, of course, before that I’ve to visit Pastoral State – Night Shepherd’s Arcadia…

Asote October 31, 2009 at 6:53 pm

The beauty in between the woman’s breasts… There is Arcadia.

1] Cleavage – woman’s pride
2] Arcadia – Mother’s pride

If soemone says to you Arcadia is ‘utopia’, now you know – it’s not.

***

“I Am the Good Shepherd” /John 10:11-18/

Yes, that is His identity.
The night He came (2 years ago), in His right hand He held a white rat. Then He said to me: “I’ll come in the night like a thief… Blessed is the one who stays awake.”

***

For me, a rat was always a “Big Mouse”. But the English word “mouse” derives from “musha”, the Sanskrit word meaning “the thief”.

And it’s really not a bad feeling to be Mickey Mouse’s ‘girlfriend’, as well, to belong to the Invisible World where everything is possible and nothing is impossible.

Asote October 31, 2009 at 10:21 pm

He said: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”

Since Mouse is Rat and every Rat is Mouse, MY knock on His door: RAT-a-tat-tat! :)

Liina.L October 5, 2009 at 8:34 pm

And btw that’s not why I said thanks to.

Alexandra October 6, 2009 at 7:20 am

Its the signal from your body that you must go to cure your wrist! There are such things, I was in pain with my back, though I am young, and think the signal was leg pain. Weird. I followed bit medication and physiotherapy, than for long period I was just fine.
Wish you all the best
Love
Alexandra

Joël October 6, 2009 at 10:41 am

Catherine,

There are books about disease as symbol,perhaps it is written
what the wrist pain means.
I give a example of myself: in the past i got a lot of problems
in my back,for me was signification of not feeling safe,afraid of
outside world, i saw the world as something hostile.
But for everybody means it something different. It’s not so easy
to find the answer

candieb October 6, 2009 at 11:59 pm

Dear Catherine,

I did suffer as well from my wrist when I used to work in pubs,with that coffee machine!And the pain came back after I gave birth.My dad got the same too,he’s doing an heavy job.This is a bad pain I know.You should go to check up,hey wait..thing I’ve never done myself,lol.I used to love making cappuccino’s though,lol.That being said,seriously,I wish you well.
Love

aditya October 6, 2009 at 2:35 pm

Hi catherine,

sorry about this delay, this blog is like time, once some post becomes old, it starts getting difficult to go back. happy that u liked it, a TT room, well we put a Table Tennis board there ( i mean others did it, i was only enthusiatically helping in carrying and setting it up ) and started calling that weapons room as our TT room.

love
aditya

THELMA October 6, 2009 at 8:00 pm

Thank you Swannie! You are exquisite and remember never give up your music for .. anything in the World.
LOVE you so much.
Mamma Thelma xxx

Liina.L October 7, 2009 at 9:49 am

You are totally right, dear Annie. My text was symbolical. At least I tried to write it that way. That’s also what I meant by light… that we have to have love, and that indeed is the light in us.

Thanks for validating.
Love,
Liina

PS! Are You also in myspace?

Pandora October 7, 2009 at 2:08 pm

I can’t hear anything, but have used my imagination, you have beautiful hands Rosa, I love your rings.

Heart October 7, 2009 at 10:07 pm

Hi, I cannot hear anything either…but I love Rosa’s shirt and jewelries :)

Heart October 9, 2009 at 12:31 am

Yes dear sis…also White can symbol happiness while Black can symbol sorrows…and the shaman with the electrical kiss IS Paulo :)

Satora October 9, 2009 at 1:57 pm

Dearest Heart,

The Magic of Rebirth/Wisdom of the Eagles…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S-EX8QJZ0k

With loving kindness,

Satora

THELMA October 9, 2009 at 11:38 am

Swannie, don’t you know that there are no … coincidences, especially in this Magical Blog???
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Den Rod October 10, 2009 at 3:59 am

Yes, Annie, we shall fly,
and, sometimes, we also fall, in…
and it feels great… don’t it?. …

candieb October 9, 2009 at 4:04 pm

Indeed Annie!;)

maria-dove October 9, 2009 at 4:48 pm

Exactly dear Annie we are a “tribe” all we have to do is exersise to achieve the “electrical kiss” part.
So well you know what they say practice makes perfect!!!

maria-dove October 9, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Dear Annie exactly a tribe!!
But the electrical kiss part i don’t know, is a little difficult to achieve it, maybe you all do it. But you know what they say practice makes perfect!!!

Heart October 9, 2009 at 4:53 pm

Dear Satora,

Thank you very, very much for this beautiful little video. I love it! Gorgeous pictures of the American bald eagle, lovely music and great text too. So the eagle has to choose to be re-born or to die, and as the legend about the Phoenix, we WOL’s choose re-born of course.
Love & Admiration,
Heart

THELMA October 9, 2009 at 5:22 pm

‘Freedom is a conquered state of mind’!!
Thank you Satoraki for the beautiful eagle video.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Den Rod October 10, 2009 at 2:32 am

Mix it up!

THELMA October 10, 2009 at 12:47 pm

Yes, Swannie I left the ‘…….’ for you and Paul to decide for your .. ‘Star name’!! ;-]

As for a Band or a … Gang, we will just do it for pleasure and Charity, like the Mango’s t-shirts… And as for the lyrics of the songs of course, Paulo Coelho is the Master in that too!

One more thing that he has to do is ….’ me to … a 17 years old girl and …. continue from there where..
Transcend TIME!! Magical!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Heart October 10, 2009 at 2:43 am

Oh, Stars…Asteria. Thank you lil sis for always being so helpful. I did beat you and Thelma to the Pythia wiki tho :) So, is Astral travels, travels to the stars?

Big kiss,
from
Big sis

THELMA October 10, 2009 at 8:10 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlIfYgyz6mE&feature=fvw
I am sixteen going on seventeen…… !!!!!!! ;-]

Regarding our … Band the Gang, everything is … arranged!!! ;-] There Swannie, now we have to expect the answers from Paul and Paulo Coelho!!
I am sure dearest Paulo, your answer is going to be: YES and NO!!!! I am the Pythia now!! I know the … future!!!.
Have a nice evening.
Much LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Ilva Asote October 10, 2009 at 9:10 pm

M-101 – MY planet.

Oh, what and interpretation of my dream! Rubedo, Albedo…. Good.

Love you, “Orange Piano”!

Funky-Monkey (today I feel like Asote Shirazu)!

Alexandra October 11, 2009 at 7:41 am

It was there, not me singing… Laura Pausini. Check above me talking is the link. Thanks.
Love
Alexandra

THELMA October 11, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Swannie, we have just come from the mountains, we went for lunch.. We still have Summer in Cyprus!! I think that this is ther reason that … Aphrodite has chosen to be … born here.. ;-]
LOVE,
Mamma Thelma xxx

Nancy October 11, 2009 at 11:34 pm

Thanks Annie. Hope you have a great weekend!!

Den Rod October 12, 2009 at 1:28 am

A man that fears nothing is about yet to be born.

Love
Den

THELMA October 13, 2009 at 7:25 am

I really do not fear anything…
GOD is LOVE and He is in us and we are in HIM. We are One and protected.
What makes me feel scared sometimes is the EVIL that resides in other people’s hearts: envy, cruelty, hate, ignorance..
Ignorance that we are all .. ONE and whatever they do it will return to them stronger …. seven times!
The Law of cause and result.
‘ .. καί άφες ημίν τα οφειλήματα ημών, ώς και ημείς αφίεμεν τοίς οφειλέταις ημών. …’ = and forgive our bebts as we have forgiven those who have [ sinned] against us..
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Savita Vega October 13, 2009 at 3:44 pm

Yes, ended in one sense, but, unfortunately, continued in another. Just as slavery was “officially” ended in the US in 1865, but the other political and social structures which constituted oppression of African Americans were continued and exist as remnants of that era, even today.

The point: we mustn’t mistake winning a battle for winning the war.

Catherine E.A. October 14, 2009 at 10:11 am

hey Annie – please explain! what was happening in the news? i couldn’t quite understand ;o)

rosa de los vientos October 14, 2009 at 12:07 am

Yes I think so.

Heart October 14, 2009 at 12:30 am

Tell her Safe Trip sis :))

Alexandra October 14, 2009 at 12:14 pm

Ha ha ha, your is better than mine, thanks…

Hope October 14, 2009 at 7:50 pm

oh Thelma dont tease, I miss the sun already!

Catherine E.A. October 14, 2009 at 7:57 pm

Today, I just got it, Annie … <3… is a heart! xx <3

Den Rod October 15, 2009 at 11:38 pm

Yep, Annie, Mozilla Firefox much better than internet explorer, indeed.

Pandora October 16, 2009 at 9:11 pm

Thanks Annie, I like the song, I love Lemon Trees, but they don’t grow here…a friend of mine has one in his garden in Majorca, beautiful scent… now I am reminiscing like a Fool about his Garden ;D

Lots of love
XXX

Den Rod October 17, 2009 at 3:57 am

It’s funny, as the video started I thought “It sounds like THE POLICE!

Nice rythym,

By the way, there is a lemon tree in my backyard and I just love lemonade!

Have some lemonade, all of you?!

It’s on its way!

Clarisa October 17, 2009 at 1:07 am

Hola soy Clarisa,es la primera semana,que escribo en el blog.Soy de este otro lado del mundo,Argentina y vivo en un lugar donde hay mar y bosque.Amo la naturaleza,y cada vez que voy al bosque pido permiso a los arboles.y siento su recibimiento,y al salir le doy las gracias y los saludos,es como un ritual..desde muy niña siento esa comunicacion con la naturaleza,y atravez de ella comulgo con DIOS.
Quiero decirles,que para mi este blog,es una forma hermosa de poder expresar lo que sentimos,como verdaderos guerreros de la luz,que en algun momento de la semana,pueden de forma simbolica,sentarce junto a la hoguera de Paulo Coelho,con el cual nos identificamos,en sus libros ,pensamientos y con su alma..Y podemos compartir nuestros sentimientos,pensamientos,aprendizajes,descubrimientos de como enfrentar la vida,luchar por nuestros sueños..
Y de alguna manera,mostrar nuestras almas…
Gracias,por estar aqui,un abrazo a todos..
Un gran abrazo a Paulo,amigo universal
Clarisa

Catherine E.A. October 17, 2009 at 6:01 pm

thanks Annie…
what a lovely statement…

I have just read on Paulo’s facebook a similar quote… about spreading your wings now… because it IS later than you think.

With a job interview coming up and feeling very unprepared for such a role… my thoughts were – what if i don’t want to fly!
but i just read your words.. that even with a clap of their wings… change is possible to do.

smiles again ;o))

Clarisa October 17, 2009 at 7:27 pm

Gracias,Annie,aca es primavera y los durazneros y ciruelos en flor,estan pintando el paisaje,de tonos rosa y blanco.Es una hermosa tarde.Les recomiendo un libro,MI PLANTA DE NARANJA LIMA,el autor es J.Mauro Vasconcelos,brasilero ,igual que Paulo..el debe haber leido,ese libro ,en su brasil natal.Es un libro ,un poco triste pero hermoso,llega al alma…
Un abrazo, Clarisa

Ilva Asote October 18, 2009 at 1:19 am

Yes, yesterday was a significant day to me.
“If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” (1 Cor. 3:18)
Well, that’s all what I can say about my ‘yesterday’.

Heart October 18, 2009 at 3:18 am

October 16th is my patron Saint Margareth Mary

Heart October 19, 2009 at 3:09 am

Sis dear,

The only explanation I can find why it is common to celebrate saint Margaret Mary Alacoque on the 16th when her feast day is October 17th, is…a “bigger” saint than her, Saint Ignatius of Antioch is celebrated on the 17th too, and when there are two saints on one feast day they often celebrate the “less important” one the day before :)) so I am used to celebrate it on the 16th..but yr correct, the official day for her death and the feast day is the 17th.

Alexandra October 18, 2009 at 6:37 am

Annie, I do understand Catherine. Is easy to talk, but sometimes a person has own feelings, and we live hard times. The employers know that, so they behave really bad with employees nowadays. Starting with interview, but I guess if you are invited to interview is already a good sign, for some send cv but never receive any answer…
Hope you did well, dear Catherine. Good luck
Love
Alexandra

Clarisa October 18, 2009 at 2:58 pm

Hola ,Annie,me causa gran asombro las coincidencias..a mi tambien me encantaban la casa del arbol,Cuando era niña,jugaba en los arboles,nunca llegue a tener una casita de verdad,pero en mi imaginacion siii.Justamente,hace dias me acordaba de esos momentos…
Feliz domingo¡¡¿

Marie-Christine October 18, 2009 at 3:18 pm

yo tambien Clarisa cuando era nina jugaba en los arboles en el jardin – muchas aventuras se pasan alla con la imaginacion, si..Hee haa!Me habia olvidado de eso… Gracias por compatir.:)

Clarisa October 18, 2009 at 9:53 pm

Gracias,chicas,Annie,Marie Christine,es muy lindo que hablemos el mismo idioma..No importa donde estemos,en que parte del mundo,sin casi conocerenos,pero nuestras almas vibran igual..Puedo sentir la calides de sus almas y eso me hace mucho bien..Gracias,espero que sigamos comunicandonos y conociendonos un poquito mas…
Este domingo aca,en Argentina celebramos el dia de LAS MADRES,yo soy una feliz mama de tres hijos,y apesar de ser joven(cuarenta años)soy una feliz abuela de una bebe de un año y medio,justamente ella,me ha hecho volver a ver las cosas atravez de los ojos del niño que llevamos dentro,compartir juegos,y tenemos en el jardin una planta de jazmin,donde inventamos que es nuestro bosque de jazmines..
Creo que las almas afines se buscan,eso senti desde que lei el primer libro de Paulo,,creo que a travez de este blog lo estamos consiguiendo..
Un gran abrazo,para ustedes..Clarisa

Ilva Asote October 18, 2009 at 3:27 pm

Good point, Annie.

2009 – 76 (remainig from Oct 16)
2010 – 365
2011 – 365
2012 – 356 (till Dec 21, totally 366 days)

For 8 years of my life I spent in the “laboratory” of the Siamese Cat – 66 years old “King” of the Occult and paranormal world.

2010 – Year of the Cat.
One of my tweets (check it out!):
“The Siamese Cat had an Experimental Rat. When the Rat ate the Cat, all dogs laughed…” /11:03 AM Sep 21st from web/

I „ate” the Cat. So, the 2010 year doesn’t exist for me.

Totally 797 days. The question is: 777 + 20 – why so?

BIELLMANN.

As you can see, I have my own “Metaphysical Calendar”. :)

Much Love,
Ilva

P.S. I know I’m in the „list” of the worse kind of people – „informers”. BUT even that is not a barrier for me.

Ilva Asote October 18, 2009 at 3:38 pm

Ok, let’s simplify it: 777 and XX

Ilva Asote October 18, 2009 at 8:01 pm

“Kalinka-malinka”,
You didn’t disappoint me. Not at all.
BUT you would disappoint me if you didn’t notice this “my Time”.
Brilliant “move”! :)

Hope October 18, 2009 at 9:25 pm

I really love you too Annie! and you are always clapping your loving wings so beautiful!!!

Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.

If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain/ Saadi

Thelma dear, I feel you. I pick up the warrior of light that I have beside my Hafez poetry book on my bed table…every night before sleep I read a poetry of Hafez and a warrior of light page, it make me remember. I think when we are down we forget and must be remembered that life is much easier than we think. Nothing really matters. Just be what you are and let other enjoy your being.
Love and love

THELMA October 19, 2009 at 3:35 pm

Swannie, did you see???? We got the answer!!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxxx

carolena Sabah October 19, 2009 at 6:20 pm

Thank you for your sweet and motivating thoughts Annie.
You all helped me a lot!
hugs & kisses.

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_café October 20, 2009 at 7:21 pm

Me too Annie!It’s a so nice movie!

Pandora October 21, 2009 at 10:23 am

Yes Catherine…. GOOD LUCK, or FORTUNA! for today.

Hope you have a wonderful time today.

Lots of love
Pandora
XXX

Heart October 21, 2009 at 5:04 pm

Yes, Catherine…we wish you the best, and let us know how it goes!

Catherine E.A. October 21, 2009 at 7:28 pm

;o)) Thank you Annie!!

It was great!! [never thought I'd use those words jaja]
and yes, Pandora… enjoyable ;o) x

And Heart, it looks like Carolena and Paulo also had a great day… ;o)
http://twitpic.com/md6m1

Hugs to you all <3 xxxxxxxxxx

Heart October 21, 2009 at 5:04 pm

Yes, I was thinking exactly the same. Was hoping for a little video clip this morning..perhaps later.

Ilva Asote October 22, 2009 at 10:47 am

^^ ^^
Dear Ms Goldsmith, you must be going crazy after taking part in my crazy tea parties! Ok, I have to re-place some ingredients: less craziness, more LOVE for you tea! :)
So, YOU are ‘nasty’ in positive light!!!
Or maybe you are simply joking? Shooting me with your “deviled eggs”???
:)

Pandora October 22, 2009 at 1:03 pm

Brilliant.

:D

Heart October 22, 2009 at 5:07 pm

Catherine dear…does it mean you got the job? thank you for the link, but Annie already shared with me. giggles.

Love,
Heart

Catherine E.A. October 22, 2009 at 10:20 pm

Job? seems not! ;o/
but they gave it to an existing ‘volunteer’ …

carolena Sabah October 24, 2009 at 1:36 pm

Yes, the Magus looked Very Handsome!!
:)

Den Rod October 24, 2009 at 9:37 pm

All I’ll say is that I’m very greatful for your distraction – otherwise you could be somewhere else other than here, and I’d miss you, ’cause I enjoy hearing your voice through your comments, right here and right now.

I think you are exactly where you should be and also right on time

Distraction is just part of the Plan

Ilva Asote October 24, 2009 at 11:52 pm

Thanks Annie!
It happens quite rare when someone says to me “sweet Ilva” :)))
Love and JoY,
Asote

Den Rod October 25, 2009 at 1:23 am

beautiful words Annie
I love you and Graditude

Den Rod October 25, 2009 at 5:46 am

I think I’m fallin’

with…
the rain…

"Simply the best" October 25, 2009 at 1:34 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnIoBTLEINA&feature=related
Have you noticed? raindrops look like …crystal
Come on… on your bike Den!
Cui Cui tuituite r because I am 3!
:)

Den Rod October 26, 2009 at 3:37 am

Simply the best:

Thank you.

Nice treasures in the site!

Good looking Crystal girls!

Bike!

E.T.!

Flying…!

Cui Cui tuituite r because I am 3! (I didn’t understand that)

THELMA October 26, 2009 at 8:26 am

Oh Swannie, you do not know how much I love the … Sun and the glittering sea and the breeze and flowers and birds and trees and little white …. clouds!!
I am sending you all my … warmth from the … centre of my Heart!
Have a nice, creative week..
‘Work is prayer’! = Η δουλειά είναι προσευχή.
Anything you do, do it with enthusiasm and love.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Heart October 28, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Thank you wonderful sis…we can laugh about our black truths and pull tongues when we fly with our butterfly wings…out of reach from hurtful words and actions, na, na, na, na, na, na :)

Asote October 29, 2009 at 2:11 pm

Ilva thinks “Love is Panama” and butterflies “rule”! :))

Heart October 29, 2009 at 4:24 pm

8><3 will be our secret sign silly sis! I’m not following what you are talking about, but it sounds LOVELY, and anything with butterflies, you can count me in :)

Heart
your big sis

Daniel October 30, 2009 at 3:48 am

Thanks Annie! Reminders that everything is exactly as it should be have been a bit of a theme for me this week. It seems I needed to take part in the lesson to absorb it! ;-D

Den Rod October 31, 2009 at 8:45 pm

oh Annie,
the song says I need you,
I wish I could kiss you right now.
With all respect, please don’t get me wrong.
I mean I love anytime you answer me, I don’t know what’s happening, I like you so much

Den Rod October 31, 2009 at 9:10 pm

And
Thank you!

Den Rod October 31, 2009 at 10:43 pm

I wish I could reach you somehow.
I’ll show up in your dreams.. don’t be scared, ok!
It’s up to you

Heart November 1, 2009 at 1:37 am

More music of the spheres…music we could dance to and which gives us the experience of being alive. Thank you sis and Den Rod.

Love & admiration,
Heart

THELMA November 1, 2009 at 3:17 pm

Thank you, Swannie. Yes I believe that we have to perform all the parts of a piece of music. It is like a book.. You cannot chose the parts that you like .. and leave the rest.. Every phrase and every note has a reason to be there.
LOVE,
Mamma Thelma xxx

Johanne Mercille November 1, 2009 at 3:45 pm

Thanks Annie … Yes, continue to “live” and take care of health in all aspects … With love and gratitude too, Jojo.

clarisa November 1, 2009 at 11:48 pm

Aca ,en america del sur la gripe A,estubo muy preocupados a todos,murio mucha gente,pero tambien fue mucho sensacionalismo..lo que les puedo recomendar,es mucho cuidado,lavarse la ¿s manos antes de comer cuando vuelven de la calle,usar alchol en gel,o alcohol con agua para las manos,aca ya paso el pico pero sigue en algunos lados…no desesperar,y solo cuidarse..Besos
Y tomar todo lo que sea natural,frutas,miel…y ventilar todos los ambientes..

THELMA November 1, 2009 at 7:06 pm

… And you will have to … take some … photos!!! ;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

THELMA November 3, 2009 at 1:54 pm

And then, Swannie, I will sing.. ‘Heaven I am in Heaven ..’ and .. fly me to the … Moon!!!
I think we can make a … film using .. songs that we like. Something like the Mamma Mia, that were the .. songs first and then they made the .. story! Our title will be :
Mamma THELMA!!!!!!! I am full of good ideas!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Carolena Sabah November 3, 2009 at 12:45 am

Annie,

I did not know home schooling was not an option in Greece!
I went to school in Greece, and yes, I remember lots of punishment.
:(

Heart November 3, 2009 at 2:43 am

Annie dear,

You don’t want to get me started on the educational system..cuz I will make you fall asleep! Just to comment on your points… My ideal ‘Learning centers’ offer an Individualized Curriculum based on each persons interests, in your case music,
balanced with a
General Curriculum with content ALL students should learn, Trivium and Quadrivium, the great book program.

50/50, with great opportunities to go into depth of projects, as one does writing a Master’s degree thesis, perhaps a year at a time, with no other courses.

About punishment…available research shows IT DOESN’T WORK. So I am against it.

aditya November 3, 2009 at 1:50 pm

Hia ! friends.

annie, spekaing of punishments I wish to share with u an ‘interesting’ punishment i received. it was not in school. in school once there came about a unique oppertunity, we particpated in an cricket tournamant, i was an ousider but got to open our innings against the team which had most fearsome fast bowlers. i was not great a batsman, but i could hold fort, u could not beat my defenses, how that came about is another story. we lost the match but two of us were picked by the other team as their juniormost players. that was a peoper professional team. i learnt a lot during those two years when we used to practice cricekt in the himlayan beauty of gangtok, and those weekened matches.

i was good, but when it came to fielding, i had a habit of withdrawing my hand at the last moment, the hard cricekt ball travelling at 90 mph, in those cold climates used to be particularly painful. captaain was not pleased, but little he could do other than punishing me with extra rounds of the ground. one fine day. he said ‘no practice today’ , everyone stand in circle, about 19-20 of us stood, then he said ” aditya stand with me” then he made rest into two semi circles one behind teh other about 10 m dia, captain moved back a few steps about 7-8 metres away from me, with wicket keeper next to him. we used to practice with about 80-12 balls. visualise this scene, i am standing faccing captain and wicket keeper who are about 8 metres to one side, behind me are two layers of my ‘friends’ waiting. suddenly he started firing those balls at me one after the other, directly at my body, full throttle. my shock did not last till the first ball hit me on my fingers, more pain. then i started fighting valinatly, i purt my hand to everything, i dived this side and that, not awy from the ball but to catch it, i missed mostly which were collected by my freinds and after about 5 minutes of this rapid fire round, there had been a break of a few seconds when the vice captain saw me getting brutalised, saw that i was the youngest there tried to put a stop. after those five minutes, i never ever feared the cricekt ball and i have a finger twisted permanenetly slightly to prove that i never feared the ball again. in fact i won the best fiuelders awar the next match, i took catches which amazed even me.

i can never forget that ‘punsihment’ thought would share with u !

love
aditya

clarisa November 5, 2009 at 1:55 am

Que lindo ,que este en Brasil,cerca muy cerca de Argentina,..De Entre Rios que la provincia que naci,aunque no vivo ahi.Brasil es hermoso,calido,el mar es tibio,amo brasil,la gente es muy buena..somos hermanos de frontera,Rio De Janeiro es un paraiso…
Besos,un abrazo Annie..Vamos a pasear a Brasil y de paso te muestro mi pais..Queres???Y lo visitamos a Paulo..

Liina November 5, 2009 at 11:40 am

Yeah… I do too. (not a joke)

Olta Ana November 8, 2009 at 6:07 pm

As a Virgo, Paulo’s sign, I believe that he might like more wearing casual and sportive. But a Virgo likes even elegance. I believe that a modern black suit would look very good on him and he might like it too.
Anyway I usually don’t dare to take a lot as basis horoscope’s signs for to determinate peoples characters, that would be like generalizing to much.

Liina November 9, 2009 at 9:07 am

Heh, Catherine Martinez,

yeah, it could be that. Although in my dreams I wasn’t confused, shocked nor distracted by Paulos idea. I thought it was funny only after I’ve woken up.

clarisa November 9, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Gracias a vos,Annie,siempre gracias,en este mundo y en todos los mundos..
Mi corazon esta abierto a la luz..
besos

Hope November 9, 2009 at 7:22 pm

Yes butterfly!
Love is as you and I are. And I love you!

Den Rod November 11, 2009 at 2:41 am

I can feel it, too, just by reading you
thanks
I’m amazed

THELMA November 11, 2009 at 10:46 am

Oh Swannie, what is happening with us? Yesterday I was not feeling well either..
‘Today/ tomorrow is … another day… ‘ “Gone with the Wind”. ;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Heart November 11, 2009 at 4:19 pm

Sis dear,

See, there you are again with your Alchemy. My little magician. Mikroteri alchemia! As Paulo says about ups and downs. ‘It will pass’.

Hugs & kisses,
Heart

Olta Ana November 11, 2009 at 9:41 pm

That is one of the best therapies ever !
Happy for you ! ;)

Marie November 11, 2009 at 11:31 pm

Hey Annie, you reminded me some good moments with my sister..:) when we have no morale, we are called and we tell stories which make us laugh. If we’re together physically, we lock ourselves into the bathroom and we make a competition of the most horrible grimaces… guaranteed giggle:)) You’re right, laughter is a means so that the soul feels so light as a feather!

Light & Love,

Clarisa November 12, 2009 at 1:08 am

Que paso,dulce Annie,vos sos la luz mas linda del universo..
Mira el sol…vos sabes que no estas sola…
Sabes que tu angel esta ahi,esperado para protegerte..
No te olvides..solo tenes que llamarlo..Besos
Te quiero…

Hope November 11, 2009 at 8:59 am

Yes Annie, so great to let everything be and be silly :)

I think of a Rumi saying: “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.”

I use to laugh, I learned this from Witch of Portobello, laugh at my problems :)

With Love

Alan Taylor in The UK November 11, 2009 at 1:34 pm

Dear Catherine,

I found this link about the story behind the Swine Flu

http://www.unconditionalfriendship.com/?p=567

This man Theun Mares has a lot of wisdom…

Best wishes,

Alan

THELMA November 11, 2009 at 4:35 pm

That hug and kiss came into my room like a sweet breeze, dearest Annie, and scattered away the dark thoughts..

Yes Paul, a quick look into the PCB with a …. piece of chocolate, performs miracles!!
I do not like … tea, so I cannot .. join you for that. What about a capuccino or an Amaretto or a … Downer and some music?
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

THELMA November 12, 2009 at 8:25 am

HOPE, I love you! You are beautiful and .. keep laughing at .. Zorbas!! And …. dance!!!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Asote November 13, 2009 at 12:23 am

Yes, dear Annie, SHE IS beautiful.
We call this icon “She who turns sadness into joy”
Love,
Ilva

Alexandra November 13, 2009 at 8:52 am

Thank you everybody a lot! Means so much for me.
Today I feel bit better, but last two days were really tough.
Wish you all the best.
See you
Love
Alexandra

Asote November 14, 2009 at 1:51 am

Dear Annie,
Yesterday I went to bed and thought about that song you told me in Twitter ["Asote - Honey Mouse"]. I’m so very intrigued about lyrics of the song!
:)
Love and JoY,
Ilva

Den Rod November 14, 2009 at 5:25 am

Annie, you are so cute,

you are funny, you’re smart,

you look good,

Would you like to eat me?!

I would like to eat you!

‘Ok, I ve gone too far :D sorry, couldn’t help it!’

I think we’d have such wonderfull time if one day we meet and talk about everything we want, drinking couple beers or wine…lotsssssssoffunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aditya November 14, 2009 at 9:16 am

annie !!!! u na ug hty girl !!

psychology will kill all romance. waiting for their meal !!! hmmmm….

love
aditya

aditya November 14, 2009 at 9:18 am

annie !!

naughty u !! waiting for meal etc ……. hmmmm

love
aditya

aditya November 16, 2009 at 7:18 pm

Hia annie !!

get well soon, daaahling !

want to say many things, but would leave it at yes whenever something bad, unpleasant is happening to us, we may be surrounded by -ve energy. as u said just take rest and u will be fine, including your energy balance.

love
aditya

THELMA November 16, 2009 at 7:21 pm

Oh Swannie, what is happening with you?? I am glad that nothing more serious happened to you!
As you said the ‘three times ruled’ has now been … fulfilled! It is time to … proceed. FLY!!
LOVE,
Mamma Thelma xxx

Johanne Mercille November 16, 2009 at 7:34 pm

Sorry to hear about your fall Annie … and I know you will get up! With affection, Jojo. And buy the way, I won’t be able to read or write the next week since I am going to rest in the South, and when I say rest I mean rest … so, no computer for me, just nature, sun, walks, dinners with friends, prayers, meditations. :-)

Hope November 16, 2009 at 8:03 pm

Annie darling! Take care and hope you get well soon.
Much Love*

Olta Ana November 16, 2009 at 9:36 pm

Annie I wish you to get better as soon as possible. Those kind of “accidents” maybe even dangerous but still annoying.
We have some kind of ritual we make in such cases.
When it happens such kind of “stupid accidents”, but dangerous, we use to break something in purpose(mostly smth made of glass). This way we think that we can avoid the law of the 3rds.
Sometimes it happens that we break something unwilling to do it, but we think that it is a god sign, that the law of 3rds has been broken.
I still am not that convinced about how it really works, especially in the first case, I believe that things who has to happen just happen, and that is it, even though I’ve tried this kind of technique, and I think that maybe it works.
I told u this because I don’t want this to happen to you again.
Wish you a fast healing, and BE HAPPY :)))))))))
Don’t worry about the comments, they can wait. ;)

Love
Olta

Heart November 16, 2009 at 10:14 pm

Thank God you can recover dearest sis. And you will. Quickly, just as your lovely personality. The funny thing about jogging is, late research has proven, consistent walking works better for you. So, yes, perhaps this is a sign, you could try a different method, slow down a bit and may be end up as a fast walker. I myself used to jog 3 miles several times a week, but missed the company of my husband and dogs. Now I just walk with them instead, and apparently it is just as good exercise for you.

You sound a bit down my dear, bleeding, hurting, healing…I know the piano is your passion, and Sulfur, so this week will be a time for you to listen, to receive and just lay back and RELAX. If you think you are the only one falling and being clumsy, don’t. Last week, I was running across the living room to reach the damn home-pone on the wall, as the other one was out, and as I ran, my dog Yoda thought I was playing so he ran into my feet, with the result I fell and it hurt bad. My right knee got scraped up and I have a big blue spot, and I was limping for a day. Worst was my husband was laughing and I yelled to him IT HUUURTS and all you do is laughing. Of course now, looking back at it, it is funny. Hehe. From now on, I will not run to get that damn phone, sorry I’ll just miss the call and avoid breaking a leg!!

Please, don’t stop your playfulness ever. You can still jump and skip and have fun sis…

Love and admiration,
Heart
xxx

Pandora November 16, 2009 at 10:19 pm

Dear Annie

I am so sorry to hear that you have had a nasty fall, I hope you recover quickly, and most importantly your hands return to play their wonderful music.

Rest lots, and try to enjoy the rest.

With lots of love
Pandora
XXX XXX XXX

Joel November 16, 2009 at 11:39 pm

Dear Annie,

Take the rest you need,you can’t force it.
Nature can not be fore it

Have Courage

Buenaventura

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_café November 17, 2009 at 12:16 am

Sorry to read it :-( I hope that you’ll better soon :-)

Kisses from Barcelona

Miriam

Theresa Goubran-Keshta November 17, 2009 at 12:22 am

Dear Annie,
Sorry to hear of your nasty fall. Maybe you need an antibiotic to prevent infection of the wounds? Anyway the doctors say Vitamin C is good to help with healing!
Hoping to get good news from you soon,
Love, Theresa

Petra Jonsson November 17, 2009 at 12:23 am

Dear Annie,

I am sorry to read that you and your butterfly got hurt.

I also fall every now and then, mostly but not always when I am not paying attention to the here and now and it serves me as a reminder to live more in the present. Still, this does not help against the pain and often it makes me angry anyhow.

You know, sometimes something like this hurts and helps. It forces you to take on a new perspective because you cannot do what you usually do. You have to find or invent something new. I wish you a miracle that transforms your painful experience into the discovery of something new and beautiful.

Take good care of yourself and be extra kind to yourself! This makes it easier for the miracle to find you.

I send you a big hug,
Petra

candieb November 17, 2009 at 1:02 am

“They” went after me too.It’s a matter of fact there a dark forces working in that universe too.I wish you well now.I hope “they” will leave you alone and will come better days for you again.Those bright days always come.Rest and recover.Don’t fear,cause “they” feed themselves with that fear.Pray,pray and do what you know you must do,what feels right for you.Get well.

Love

Candie

Liina November 17, 2009 at 2:42 am

I wish You fast healing. Enjoy resting, if You can, You’re ‘given’ that after this accident happened. The law has been broken and You can go on now.

Last spring I fell with my bike, although I have never had an accident with my bike before. I fell on the asphalt, the cog-wheel that holds the chain of the bike forced its way into my leg muscle – it was rather horrid, but gladly I didn’t feel a thing. Gladly I was about 500 meters away from home and I was able to gather my strenght and drive back home. But later I needed stitching in the emergency room. Now I only have visible row of scars left. Not very “sexy” on a woman, but what can You do. :) Hehe…

Glad that You’re ok.
Be well, Annie.

Pandora November 16, 2009 at 10:12 pm

How wonderful, to turn everything off except LIFE.

Have a good time,

Love
Pandora

Heart November 17, 2009 at 1:58 am

Get well sis. That damn clumsiness! hehe.

Den Rod November 17, 2009 at 2:03 am

Dear Annie,
Feel my lips kissing your hands… and your butterfly…
Get well soon!
Don’t worry much,
anyways,

M A K T U B!

THELMA November 17, 2009 at 8:49 am

Swannie, after these two comments and well-wishes by … sis Heart and the ‘BLUE BUTTERFLY man’, Den Rod, I am sure that by now you are O.K.!! Remember TIME and NOW is just a state of mind. You are already healed and look inside … you may be ..putting in front of you those.. Cyclops!!
LOVE,
Mamma Thelma xxx

Santosh Kalwar November 17, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Dear Annie,

You are not well
Who said?
Come on, you are very well
and you were very well
the enthusiasm you show
the love you reflect
and above all everybody respects
you are the creation
of early morning rise
hopefully
no disease will torture your
rights
wake up and let’s see you
smile

God bless you !

Liina.L November 17, 2009 at 5:21 pm

I love this song, all about it… thanks. Get well, dear Annie. Hugs!

clarisa November 17, 2009 at 11:10 pm

Querida mariposa..vamos a curar..sii..te regalo halo..vos sabes..no vas a caer..me duele esto vos sabes..tu angel esta con vos..no te lastimes mas..sabemos que hacer..confia en lo que sentiste a fines de octubre..
Te quiero..no lloresmariposa..vos tenes que reir..toda la luz..del universo

clarisa November 17, 2009 at 11:16 pm

Anita,cantaremos al alba nuestra cancion..Amaia montero..y tambien Mariposa..para vos..siempre..en todos los mundos..
Amo esta cancion..me encanta..gracias por compartirla
Te quiero…muchooo

Daniel November 18, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Healing and light to you dear Annie. One day you will look back on this as nothing more than a hiccup in your happiness. That’s just the way it is! ;-)

With love, Daniel

THELMA November 17, 2009 at 8:55 am

p.s. Sorry I had replied and not have read all these loving comments down the page from the whole … family of the Warriors of Light!!! So the comments are not just … two!!!! Hugs, T. xxx

Johanne Mercille November 17, 2009 at 2:40 pm

Yes, dear Pandora. I try and do this more and more on a daily basis … only thing missing not the Sun but the warm rays of the Sun at this moment here in Québec (and after a summer of rain and cold, it will be great). And yes I feel blessed to have that opportunity to go to where for me I feel so much “alive”, on Mexican grounds … But not in a complex with music, bars, etc … I have this little house, my sanctuary, and I garden, admire the colors all day long, watch for birds, listen to their melody … Thanks Pandora foro your wishing. With affection, Jojo.

Heart November 17, 2009 at 5:12 pm

Annie dearest,

Was thinking about where clumsiness comes from. Want to hear my theory? I believe…the more critic our close relations surround us with, the clumsier we become, that it is a nervous reaction. Haven’t verified my thesis. And then there are always accidents and ‘Shit happens’ :)

Love you,
Heart

deylun November 17, 2009 at 7:51 pm

Miriam; ¿eres de aqui de españa? si es asi, me alegra saber que por lo menos por estos mundos hay una persona de mi país. :)

*Deylun*

Liina.L November 18, 2009 at 12:58 pm

Annie, You did fell. And You felt the love after it happening. The love from all who sent You messages and good thoughts, prayers…
You fell in the love. :) Heh.

I’m glad them messages came through the way they were meant. Sometimes not only lemon juice helps the wound to heal faster, but the words and actions that happen around and in us.

Yes, this world indeed is beautiful.
Hugs to friends,
Liina

THELMA November 18, 2009 at 3:12 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P56KQv4J76U&feature=related

My Swannie, the song that I know is the ‘When I fall in love it will be for ever’!!!! ;-] Mamma Thelma is … romantic!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_café November 18, 2009 at 2:46 pm

De Barcelona, para ser exactos :-) y tú?

deylun November 18, 2009 at 11:13 pm

Yo soy de alicante (c. valenciana) :).

Hope November 18, 2009 at 10:30 pm

You know I love you. Take care darling*

Olta Ana November 19, 2009 at 10:55 am

It happens. Diamonds shine so much to them that they get blinded and can not see nothing more than them… giggles.

How are you feeling now? Did you get any better?
I really hope you are fine now, and recuperated.

<3 ;))

Santosh Kalwar November 19, 2009 at 11:47 am

Dear Annie,
Well, yeah…
Thank you for the appreciation ! :)

aditya November 19, 2009 at 1:36 pm

yeah ! sure it was paulo only ! phlosopoical even in your dream, birthday can be any day ….

tell me something annie and rest of you paulo dreamers ( u may wish to stangle me for this way of writing but …let me take this mortal risk ;-)), why does it happen that disciples ( although u are not decalred desciples, neither is paulo a declared master, decalred by himslef ! ) specially women tend to fall more for the person than what the person is trying to say, in other words, why is this tendency to catch the finger pointing towards the moon rather than catching mooon itself !!

many people have tried explaining dreams in many ways, one thing is certain if paulo appears in your dream basically u have been munching over him in your ‘second-mind’ as paulo calls it in Valkyries, a damn nice book i am presently reading !!
love
aditya

Heart November 19, 2009 at 5:10 pm

What a b e a u t i f u l dream Annie. Doesn’t it make you so very happy! So, see what a bit of recreation can to to your inner life. There you are.. together with our Dream man :)

Love you bunches orange piano…I have almost ripe oranges on a tree outside my front yard…Want to come and taste fresh home made orange juice?

Heart

Olta Ana November 20, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Dear Annie,
I could give an interpretation to your dream, since i like doing it, but I don’t see that this would be a god thing. It says smth about your future but mostly it is about a message which I think you have already understood.

Good LUCK dear!
LOVE
Olta

Liina.L November 19, 2009 at 2:23 pm

Dear Aditya,

If certain person(s) are seen in Your dream, it may tell about what this person represents in our eyes(their views, characteristics, or problems they are dealing with, a challenge You may have to deal with etc etc.), not neccecarily the person itself. ;)

Your question is good, but answer is different… as we are different people. Not all women are alike as also not all men are alke. Lets not try to stamp certain ways of acting by genres.

Be well, Aditya.

Liina.L November 19, 2009 at 2:26 pm

And I also ask a question: why isn’t there any men who share what they’ve seen in their dreams? And if they’re seen Paulo there. I bet there have been some, but they are not just revealing it. So does that mean that those men have been munching over Paulo, automatically? In their ‘second mind’? :P

Lol. This really amused me, Aditya. Take care.

Love,
Liina

THELMA November 19, 2009 at 4:24 pm

SWANNIE, you are right ” any day, any minute” is an .. awakening minute; a minute of our re-birth, Αναγέννησις.

A nice dream to be with Paulo Coelho and Christina..
Regarding the .. Japanese man, are you sure that he was not …Jon Nakamatsu from the You Tube Video ‘Losers’??
I love you.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Johanne Mercille November 19, 2009 at 11:58 pm

Dear Adyta … there are different types of dreams … and that world has an expression that utilize symbols. So, Paulo, in many and maybe about all cases is a symbol, and when a dream is to be captured, needs to be captured, it will utilize a symbol that you will not forget, and even it will make it recurrent … so, need is to understand what is hidden or what needs to be discovered from the symbol. One way, is to establish a dialogue with that symbol for instance. Has really nothing to do with woman thing … here I am speaking of dream while sleeping, deep dream. And yes, the unconscious world, the spirit world will tend to utilize objects that are present in the individual’s life but it remains a symbol. With affection, petit taquin … Jojo.

aditya November 20, 2009 at 5:49 am

Hi sheelu

it’s your enourgament which keeps me going, otherwise silence is golden !! and about the risk, i meant the mortality of teh risk not me, silly u, of course i am immortal, and not just that in hinuism immortality if not coupled with unaging is useless u know ‘ajar amar’ so i am ajar too, how about that !!

write about your experince with river…., even if it’s long i promise to read it to teh end and write a comment too.

good questions are never answerd ??? yeah ! u paulo dreameres ( see i am guilty of that cardinal sin – jealousy)

love
aditya

aditya November 21, 2009 at 7:18 am

I deny !!

have i been been rude, no !! i can recollect the few times i have sent a piercing post, sometimes it is needed, and rest assured it is more painful for me than for the receipient of those blows, there is no pleasure in delivering pain, but when teh sleep becomes so deep, one needs to use ceratin …. i treat people like freinds, wellbeing of my friends is more important to me than maintaing my own goodboy image, images come and go, bonds of freindship last forvere, even when teh freinds are no more.

sheelu, i have an idea why people and women particulary fall for the finger than the moon, i just wanted to bring it to your attention.

paulo has been generous, first and foremost he is a wol, a person who tries to be with truth, whatever truth may mean at that time.

ahhhh !!

calling me rude, u break my heart again, now i have two
;-)). remember its you take the whole out of the whole and still the whole remains !

love
aditya

Santosh Kalwar November 19, 2009 at 11:12 pm

Dear Catherine,

Here is the title of the poem, “Lappeenranta City you want to be…”
Thank you so much and I really appreciate your inspiration… :)

God bless you !

Hope November 19, 2009 at 11:50 pm

Dreams!!! Another language of the universe. Signs and dreams.

Asote November 20, 2009 at 12:04 am

Thanks a lot, girls! :)
I have to say Nov 18 it’s not my birthday!!! Just my “different” birthday. Anyway: THANKS A LOT! [I'm still dancing my Crazy Dance]

aditya November 20, 2009 at 5:51 am

hi Liina,,

thank u for u’r good wishes, u too be well. as u have said things cannot eb generalised, but in my expereince when a number of memebers of a particular tribe ( called women ? ) behave in a ceratin manner, it’s but human to group togather and try to see what drives that behaviour. surely all women are not alike, in fact no two individuals are exactly alike.

love
aditya

aditya November 20, 2009 at 5:54 am

I don’t know about other men, but i have not come across paulo in my dreams, so far, men too can be secrative creatures i agree. second mind needs to be ‘controlled’ then u will have a dreamless sleep, mostly !!

answering a question with another question, not bad ;-))))

love
aditya

aditya November 20, 2009 at 5:56 am

dear jojo

dreams !! have been a mystry down teh ages, thanks for throwing dsome light !

love
aditya

Olta Ana November 20, 2009 at 4:21 pm

Your hands remind me of myself last year. Because of a terrible allergic reaction due to a bumblebee’s nip. I found my leg an my hand very very swollen. I had pain I couldn’t stay on feet, I couldn’t write. I wanted to stay on bed because I couldn’t bear the pain. And I was stressed because of the bumblebees rolling around. My cousin always kept telling me to push my self, and I felt inside I had to push my limits. I did it, and I got healed faster than I thought, but there were times when I knew I had to stop. I just could feel it, know it.
Listen to your hart, Annie. You’ll know when to go on and when to stop.

<3 Olta

Olta Ana November 21, 2009 at 6:21 pm

heheheh such a funny melody, and one of the best to describe a Bumble Bee. It amused me…;)

Thank you Annie!

Liina November 20, 2009 at 11:31 pm

Been for a long time now, Annie. He’s a great singer. And I believe a great soul.

Get well :)
Hugs,
L.

aditya November 21, 2009 at 6:54 am

Annie !! right as always !

i have stopped bothring with goals, so …., present has no goals,

there is a time for action then the action should be focused on and there is atime for rest then the vision / visulaisation helps, what fues teh actions is the vision.

yeah they are the same things, complimentary !!

love
aditya

Marie-Christine November 21, 2009 at 10:14 pm

Dearest Sheelu-la
I knew I could count on you.
WoW ! I ‘ve got a fan or two or three.:)
Thanks for your prayers
Love
Marie-Christine

Heart November 22, 2009 at 9:31 pm

Yes, Annie there are a few months to plan, but we have to sign up soon, and right now, my estimates would be ‘it is impossible financially to make a trip to Europe this spring’. Thanks anyway, for your sincere brainstorming with me.

Love,
Heart

Heart November 22, 2009 at 9:34 pm

Well dear Catherine…I’d have to swim across the Atlantic…giggles. Share the fees is great if you have much to share…my contribution at the moment could be 0.001% !!! Things could turn of course, but I haven’t been to Europe in ten years, and don’t see it realistic in the near future.

Peter Südkamp November 23, 2009 at 12:15 am

Dear Catherine, dear Paulo,

you are both right but I can feel the problems that are occouring here. Most of us are having money issues. I do have this, too. Maybe Paulo is inviting all of us for free to open up the ability for us to meet eachother as WOL. I can feel that he is indeed a special Being of Light who is offering so much and a man who has the ability to make things happen.

Otherwise he would not be who he is. An inspiration to change what is taken for most of humankind as truth and to be a part in this Great Shift in Consciousness. So I would love to meet everyone of you here in this community and maybe I do feel right and so I let surprise myself and we´ll see, what is happening about my inspiration to Paulo about this thought of mine.

Love
Peter

Heart November 23, 2009 at 2:23 am

I will try…keep it open for me for awhile.. as long as you can :)

Paulo Coelho November 22, 2009 at 10:05 pm

As the Scorpions say: “try, baby try”
love

Liina November 23, 2009 at 1:30 am

Happy birthday, both to Christina Oiticica and Savita Vega, it is the 23rd oficcially here in Estonia, so I can wish it along with Annie and others!

Be well and enjoy, have a nice day!

Heart November 23, 2009 at 2:20 am

A very Happy Birthday to the WIFE…Christina Oiticia from me too. The only time I ever have interacted with you was when you had your exhibition in Paul’s pilgrim blog. I do read postings sometimes signed with Chris, I believe is you, and you appear very quiet and settled and not as wild as the rest of us here :) Did I understand it right that you are raising a baby these days? Well, I hope you will have a wonderful Birthday, and perhaps Paulo will sing some more to you :)

Dearest Savita…if you’ll come riding in her on your new horse…HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you g/f!!!!!! You are dearly missed in our daily blogging here, but I have enjoyed seeing your postings once in awhile. The one of your grandmother ‘gossiping’ or keeping track of everything that takes place in your community is so, so sweet. So, have a great day, you too Savita!!

Love and admiration,
Heart

Olta Ana November 23, 2009 at 9:49 am

Dear Catherine,
If you like it you definitely have to attend some classes of tango. Me myself I started this summer, attending salsa classes but then I stopped because I couldn’t and I’ve planned to start later again. It was so fun that I didn’t want it to end that fast anyway.;P
Still it is tango left to be learned.
While learning this kind of dancing, you learn even more than dance.
So if you like it, better try it.;)

Love
Olta

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_cafe November 23, 2009 at 11:52 am

Happy Birthday to Christina and Savita. I hope you’ll have a really nice day and a new year of life full of good things and great moments to remember :-)

Kisses from barcelona,

Miriam

Alexandre November 23, 2009 at 3:58 pm

Parabéns Christina!

Alexandra November 24, 2009 at 8:39 am

Ha ha, good one, dear Annie…

Olta Ana November 25, 2009 at 10:49 am

Thank you dear Annie!
You know I laugh while reading this because it happens the same thing to me, except the fact that they don’t make me confuse.
They tell me that I am the love of their life, or that they want to marry me, like this one. It is serious…People are getting sick around here hahahahhaah…(Sorry that was mean)
As for my soul mate there is no problem. He can take his time. hehehh
I don’t bother, I still have a lot in my life that makes me feel complete.
I keep thanking God every day of my life for all the love that surrounds me. My friends, my parents, my sisters, my…etc heheheh
So I got even a very good think about when I feel down, and I’m up again. But you Annie sent me higher because I laugh so much, on thinking that we have this in common.
Thank you!

Love to you dear Annie
Olta

Hope November 25, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Go jessica! Håller tummarna! :)

To Suphi: Why is the blog refusing my comments? This is not the firs time either. Thank you ;)

elaine November 26, 2009 at 8:31 am

It takes time to get TEN. Though once you start, they seem to pop into your life. You will begin to recognize who will fit in your TEN — the ones who will love you for your goodness :-) — then you will invite them to join you in celebrating life. They won’t be annoying because they will and you understand THE TEN.

Love ya,
Lainee

Heart November 26, 2009 at 8:55 pm

Love you too Sexy Sis ;))

Leejaeyong November 27, 2009 at 3:57 am

Poetical!

Hope November 28, 2009 at 1:07 am

Cathrine dear,
I like Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf movies too. So nice to hear that you like persian language, I am a poetry girl and I dont know where I would be today if I did not had access to this language and persian poetry.
About politic, I think it is devils favorit. But politic is everywhere in every aspect of life and so is devil :)
Shirin is a fighter and there are many like her all over the world, unfortunatully one must get the stupid Nobel prize to be known and amired.
Oh I wish my parents knew that Iran is not the center of the world, there are many other countries that have same and other form of horror. My grandmother always talks about Iranian peoples problem everytime I visit her and I try to explain to her that these horror exist everywhere in other forms. But maybe Iran is special because it is the most famous religious dictatorship (false religion)
There are four types of people once I heard in radio (if we can allow ourself to categorize people like that)
1.Family people, their problems and thoughts is about everything that happens in the family
2.Tribe people, their issues is about friends/people they know and family
3.Country people, they are thinking their nation/country is the center of the world
4. There are Global people that see everything in a bigger perspective.

I wish you the best, if you have time please write why Kiarostami told you better be home? :)
Love*

Den Rod November 28, 2009 at 2:39 am

I live in the capital of Brazil, Brasilia.
My father lives in Rio and I’ll be right there on new years eve,
A G A I N ! ! !

Den Rod November 28, 2009 at 2:43 am

Wanna go to the movies?
;)

marie-christine November 28, 2009 at 12:16 pm

:) Annie
Love

Alexandra November 28, 2009 at 1:41 pm

Thank you Annie, you very kind hearted. I loved the music.

Pandora November 28, 2009 at 3:01 pm

A beautiful Concerto, I LOVE this…. thank you Annie

XXX

Heart November 28, 2009 at 5:13 pm

Divine soul touching song and video as gentle as only you can be adorable Annie. I wonder why it is called ‘Emperor’?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY dearest Alexandra!! Sorry you are ill. Get well dear!!

Love & admiration,
Heart

Den Rod November 28, 2009 at 6:29 pm

Thanks Annie,
How about this one, Bach’s!
Have fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_QR_FTt3E

Alexandra November 28, 2009 at 1:42 pm

Thank you Annie, one of the most kind wol.

Den Rod November 28, 2009 at 6:24 pm

Let’s have some candy, then! :)

Santosh Kalwar November 28, 2009 at 9:00 pm

Dear Alexandra,

Many happy returns of the day…enjoy :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcIP5w4H6Dw

God bless you !

Den Rod November 28, 2009 at 10:12 pm

Oh my God,
How about this one, Chopin’s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNAyKL2GHvA

Heart November 28, 2009 at 10:30 pm

TY. Giggles.

Heart November 28, 2009 at 10:33 pm

Can’t believe you don’t like this piece Annie…It’s gorgeous!

You don’t cheat on Sulfur if you admit to enjoying a bit of Chello!

Oh, by the way…how would you like if they banned Melons from the beaches in Greece??? Just as well as if they banned Surfing boards on the beaches in California… I am still flabbergasted about the Coconuts…is it the knives used to cut them can be deadly weapons during the Olympics in 2016? Den Rod, yr Brazilian…give me some answers…What the hec is going on? :))

Heart November 28, 2009 at 10:34 pm

Like Annie…would you drink Melon juice from bottles, if the fruit was banned? This is the suggestion in Rio, coconut juice from bottles!!!!!

Den Rod November 28, 2009 at 11:27 pm

Yes, Heart
coconuts are not banned no more, that was just a loop of insanity of a few people of the government.
We can have all the coconuts we want in Rio at any time.
Have some?!

Den Rod November 29, 2009 at 12:05 am

Melon juice from bottles, tasty!

Heart November 29, 2009 at 5:32 pm

Great news Den Rod. Even I who have never seen a green coconut all my life, knew that ban was insane. Sure, I’ll take a zip as long as it’s freshly :)

Alexandra November 29, 2009 at 8:32 am

Merci beaucoup!!!

Alexandra November 29, 2009 at 8:48 am

ha ha , was so funny, thanks a lot! Loved it!
God bless you toodear Santosh!

Alexandra November 29, 2009 at 8:51 am

Hi dear Heart
Thanks for your wishes. I try my best to get well soon, and I say again that watching the videos and comments by friends from blog are making me feel happy and much much better. Here I found the most wonderful people.
Thanks God
Much Love
to all of You
Alexandra

THELMA November 29, 2009 at 1:42 pm

SO Swannie, there are now … two ‘I Love you’s’ here; so I am taking the …one of them!! ;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Pandora November 29, 2009 at 7:05 pm

I Love YOU
i LOVE you
I LOVE YOU

XXX

:D

Theresa Goubran-Keshta November 29, 2009 at 2:28 pm

Hi Alexandra,
I seem to be totally confused! I’m not quite sure when your birthday is! Anyway very Happy Birthday. Have a great time!
Happy life, and may all your dreams come true.
Love, Theresa

Alexandra November 29, 2009 at 5:18 pm

It was in 28, yesterday. Many thanks. I hope I will be aware when others birthday come, for wishing too.
I also share a poem I consider nice.
Journey of Love
by bcassata
Let us journey into a endless sea of love
Where dreamers have always dreamt of
Let our destiny take us so ever far away
It’s our hearts guiding us along the way.

Let’s promise our hearts, to one another
Promise to cherish and love, for forever
Embracing love, My heart falls in place
With just a loving smile upon your face.

Let’s adventure, in the depths of the sea
A place where deep emotions, flow free
Capture my heart, with loving affection
Love will guide us in the right direction.

I fell for you, I fell as petals from a rose
With you I’ll blossom, for you I’d grow
Let’s bring our hearts destiny into place
It’s our journey of love our hearts chase.

Theresa Goubran-Keshta November 30, 2009 at 12:14 am

Hi Alexandra
Thank you for posting this beautiful poem…I love it.
Take care of your health,
Love, Theresa

Mariëlle November 29, 2009 at 8:14 pm

Amen Annie, beautiful!

Love

clarisa November 29, 2009 at 10:43 pm

Es hermoso Annie,viva el amor ,y la vida¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
Siempre hay que mirar al sol..a la luz..se se ama ,se sufre,se rei se llora ..ESA ES LA VIDA..
Te quiero Annieluz

rosa de los vientos December 1, 2009 at 12:54 am

Gracias ayer Annie mucho que ver la película “El Piano” película muy buena.
Kises para usted.

Den Rod November 30, 2009 at 1:26 am

I feel better now, cute Annie

Daniel December 1, 2009 at 2:59 am

And I see it all! ;-)

Olta Ana December 1, 2009 at 4:09 pm

LOL!
Thank you so much Annie!
Love to you.

Olta

Leejaeyong December 2, 2009 at 12:17 pm

Late but happy birthday, annie.

Den Rod December 3, 2009 at 8:25 pm

I’ll think it up!

Carolena Sabah December 3, 2009 at 9:37 pm

Annie… ke ego sagapo!
miss you!
Kisses,
C.

Walaa December 3, 2009 at 9:53 pm

Thank you Annie dear for your words and advice..I do agree with you..

I wrote this poem after something my dad said, and I called it Part I because I believe that there is a second part to the story; when a person realizes that the fight is part of life, but it doesn’t diminish the beauty of it.

Much Love <3

Ilva Asote December 3, 2009 at 10:25 pm

Dear Annie,

Your “little cherrie lady” believes in myths.
For me, happiness is a state of wellbeing or INTENSE JOY.
Is joy “contagious”? :)
Last weekend I re-read L.Frank Baum’s “Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz”. What made me joyful? Toto – a Yorkshire Terrier, Dorothy’s littlie doxie.
So, now I can agree with Paulo: “Joy IS contagious.”

What else? I can normally breathe. For more yrs I couldn’t.
“You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that “I breathe when I sleep” is the same thing as “I sleep when I breathe”!” /Alice in Wonderland/
So do I –> sleep when I breathe & DREAM when I breath! And that gives joy in my heart.

By the way, thanks to Paulo’s story “Purifying The World”, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse also feel “Intense Joy” this evening. Mickey feels like the sheik, but Minnie like his wife! Wonderful story. Real “Myosotis”.

Love & Hugs
Ilva

THELMA December 4, 2009 at 6:51 am

Dearest Annie, I know YOU understand, even when I am writing in .. English! ;-]
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

THELMA December 4, 2009 at 4:33 pm

Oh Swannie, you are my guarding Angel!
Yes reading that Hope had some strange … flu and then reading about pain in her stomach and ‘nose bleed’and all these stories about ..THE FLU .. well!;-]
Taking water and a … shower does not make any .. harm to anyone!!! On the contrary it cleanses our soul, our body and our … aura!
Love you.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Heart December 4, 2009 at 5:10 pm

Love you sis. Thank you too. the Halo is gorgeous too.

Den Rod December 4, 2009 at 8:58 pm

‘Good dreams are no better than bad thoughts, unless they be executed.’ – Den Rod

rosa de los vientos December 5, 2009 at 1:46 am

Beautiful Annie

Ilva Asote December 7, 2009 at 1:05 am

Dear Heart, Marie and Annie,
Thank you! Children of all ages are adorable.

Annie dear,
Definitely not Chess.
But who knows, maybe one day they [Agatha & Arnold] will go together to Kazakhstan! And there SHE will “hunt” HIM…

***
Check out the meaning of their names!
1] Arnold = Eagle power;
2] Agatha = Good

Love, Ilva

marie-christine December 8, 2009 at 8:42 pm

Feliz cumpleanos Annie
con amor y agradecimiento
xxx

THELMA December 8, 2009 at 9:51 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec9DkmbhgDk
Dearest Annie,
this is YOUR WAY and remember ‘I will be there’. ;-]
I am grateful you are in my life, together with my ..other Suns; because without YOU all, I am nothing.
Thank you dearest Paulo Coelho for being there and for offering us the opportunity to ‘meet’ so many beautiful Stars, Warriors of the Light.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Liina December 8, 2009 at 9:56 pm

Happy birthday Annie! I am not late, it’s 10 pm in Estonia!

rosa de los vientos December 9, 2009 at 12:17 am

Muhhh nice. Thank you Annie

Marie December 9, 2009 at 1:02 am

Thanks you Annie for your humor and I have just learnt that is a BIRT :)… OK, I like the fish… I have a doubt for ” the brill ” because in French it means that we have of the hair in the chin :D…Hihihi :))

Light & Love,

Carolena Sabah December 9, 2009 at 1:31 am

Annie… HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

May you always be Bright and Happy as you are!
I wish all your Dreams come true!
Love ya!

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

candieb December 10, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Happy Birthday Annie!Sorry to be late but all those computer things kind of losing me.
Wishing you all the best!
Love
Candie

clarisa December 9, 2009 at 1:44 am

que bueno que hables español..siempre quise decirte que admiro lo que haces..besos

clarisa December 9, 2009 at 2:31 am

marie christien,te queria decir que te admiro por lo que haces..tu lucha por el cancer de mamas..y todo los eventos que realizas..todo lo mejor para vos..besos

Olta Ana December 9, 2009 at 10:10 am

Oh Annie I m Sorry I didn’t wish you a Happy Birthday right on time. I’ve been terribly distracted these days.My mind has got very busy… I knew your birthday was on 8December and still forgot about yesterday. Anyway…

I wish you A lot of Joy and Happiness during this new year of your life! I wish that all of your dreams may come true and who said that you can’t have more than one birthday at year. I wish you that your next days in the future might be full of Joy and Love just like 8 December was!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yolLqx6k1OM

Hope you like this one and forgive me for my distraction.
Much Love <3
Olta

Pandora December 10, 2009 at 12:34 am

Thanks Annie… I love to celebrate…. any excuse
(well I have an ancient greek name, and catholic blood so guess I am ok to celebrate both? :D)

Lots of lvoe
X♥X

Hope December 10, 2009 at 9:16 am

Hi Cathrine,
Oh I saw your comment now! Thank you for writing about your meeting with Kiarostami but I still dont know what he ment by that :) Maybe meet him soon and ask.
False religion is not “heart” religion for me. It is lazyness really, that people dont want to take the time and really think: who is this God I am talking about sometimes?
Have a great day.
/Hope

Den Rod December 12, 2009 at 9:46 pm

You beautiful butterflying

Pandora December 13, 2009 at 3:00 pm

Good luck with your exam tomorrow Annie, you can only do your best…

Lots of love
XXX

candieb December 13, 2009 at 3:20 pm

:)Iknow how you feel,about the joy(me too)and about not finishing things(caughing)me tooooo!I did finish something though,that is a start,got plenty of new ideas in my head and something for a friend I kind of left on the side,I really don’t know what happened,caught between ego,dark vibrations from others and the questionning of “who’s that person in the end?”,just popped up from nowhere asking help.I was an still a bit lost about the whole thing,how it happened and the fact that it wasn’t my decision,I didn’t chose the cause myself not that I don’t think it’s important,it really is.Anyway..I still get out of subject easily just like in school!Lol.

I wish you good luck and plenty of love and sunshines!

Candie

Shine December 13, 2009 at 3:21 pm

whew… I was getting worried there for a moment

Marie December 13, 2009 at 6:55 pm

Hey dear Annie, it’s good also to change the ideas the day before of examination. As says the French expression ” carrots are cooked “, that’s to revise the day before for the next day will not change fundamentally the result. So, keep the enjoyment in your heart…She’s your best ally of moment. I wish you the best success for your examination and don’t doubt too many of… you have you a brilliant spirit :))

Light & Love,

elaine December 14, 2009 at 12:31 am

Annie,

This is what I teach my students and it might make things just a teeny, tiny bit better.

Right now, think of your brain as having two parts, (1) the world brain and (2) the school brain.

The world brain is where you store the information that will help you survive and go after your personal legend. The world brain is much bigger than the school brain. You need to decide what goes in here to stay and guide you through your life. Be selective so as not to overload this side with trivial items or on the other hand, items that may over shadow what is most important for survival.

The school brain is just that — fill it with those items that will get you through school (the test) and then “fart the information out your ear.” Think about what information you will need to survive later in your job or life, switch it over to the world brain and then let the rest blow out. Our school brains are not really that big.

I do hope this helps … and like you said you do not have to be perfect … even though you are pretty awesome in our hearts.

Love and warm light to you, Annie

Lainee

Den Rod December 13, 2009 at 3:26 pm

I’m ok, sure!
I just needed to say that,
Bye!

kealan December 13, 2009 at 3:46 pm

Dear Annie – just dig in and get the study done – you can do it. I just completed my studies two days ago… Yesterday I felt stressed out and was thinking I must study, then I remembered I had completed everything! Joy! Education a lot of the time is just a memory game >> that is why the world sucks – people cannot think for themselves >> that is why we have idiots destroying the economy etc… >>

clarisa December 13, 2009 at 3:54 pm

Hermoso,annieluz,estudia,es parte de la vida,pero nunca dejes de amar,de componer canciones..de hacer lo que te dicta el corazon..se feliz..
Te quiero..besos mariposa..

Alexandra December 13, 2009 at 4:12 pm

ha ha ha, if you could see us in faculty, more death than alive, all time tired, the prof came to exam at 6 pm and next day 8 pm another exam…sure some failed at least one.
oh boy
I am with you, good luck, after you will laugh on all that.
Love and hugs
Alexandra

THELMA December 13, 2009 at 6:22 pm

Oh, dearest Annie, Swannie, these exams must finish and .. set you free! I thought that … papers did not matter as long as you ‘know’ things … But no, when I did my Piano Teaching Diploma, although this was NOT my dream, I felt complete ‘satisfaction’ and some … centimeters higher!! ;-] I had the ‘proof’ in the material World that I have stepped to a … higher level. Although this is not Paulo Coelho’s philosophy, I, from my point of view, believe that we NEED ‘papers’, degrees and titles as Weapons on our WAY. The more we know, the better we .. Face life. Our ‘way of thinking’ changes gradually and then we are better in whatever we do. So my best wishes for the coming exam and remember, you do not do it for anybody else, but for yourself only.
Love you and I am going to .. be with you!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Heart December 13, 2009 at 8:53 pm

Just do your best dear Annie. It’s all you can do. And leave the rest to the universe. You will do well.

Oh, I cannot wait to see clips of your music on YouTube. I searched the other day, but none yet!

Love ya,
Heart

candieb December 13, 2009 at 5:36 pm

Who’s replying to who here.it’s a bit confusing.Did you talk to me Shine?About that?What is it of your concern if so?I think you should put your real name and speak your mind then.Here it’s me and my doubts who speak I do not fear to expose my failures,scars,faults,I’m not perfect and no one is.

THELMA December 13, 2009 at 6:09 pm

Congratulations, dear Kealan on completing your studies!! Now you ARE a .. Free man, until …. your next step and next … ‘trial’. ;-] Our journey is a … series of them.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

THELMA December 13, 2009 at 9:04 pm

Thank you Swannie and Heart BFF, for listening.

Yes Heart I used to play everything ‘by heart’ 40 years ago: but I used to study 8 hours per day, even on Sundays! Getting old and with so many worries, our mind ‘scatters’ around!!!! ;-]

LOVE,
Thelma xxx

candieb December 13, 2009 at 10:04 pm

Oh thank you Annie for answering me.You’re really sweet.Yes I thought so about music!Have a nice evening beautiful artist!:)

candieb December 14, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Thank you,yes another one,and I accept your rainbow with great pleasure,here it’s freezing cold and snow isn’t that far so I send you a snow angel :)

Love

Candie

THELMA December 14, 2009 at 8:02 pm

Oh Swannie, I am so proud of YOU! You SEE: Head and Spirit high! Victory is won by … small battles! And when they will be finished you will miss the ‘excitement’ and ‘adrenalin’ of the battlefield! ;-] Then you will place new targets in front of you! This is the beauty of the Journey!
LOVE and I am proud of you,
Mamma Thelma xxx

Heart December 14, 2009 at 8:59 pm

Celebrate it sweet sis, we will celebrate it with you!

clarisa December 14, 2009 at 9:04 pm

te felicito¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¿¿

Liina December 14, 2009 at 9:56 pm

Woo hoo Annie! :) Great job!

Theresa Goubran-Keshta December 14, 2009 at 11:23 pm

Well done, Annie.
Mabrouk(Congratulations)!!!
You are a true warrior.
Love, Theresa

Den Rod December 15, 2009 at 1:30 am

Good job!
Keep up the good work!

elaine December 15, 2009 at 4:25 am

This calls for a celebration!!!! I do hope this works.

http://popup.lala.com/popup/432627043563755684

I hope you are partying on right now!!! Or at least putting your feet up and enjoying yourself.

Way to to guuurrrrllll!!!!

Love ya, Lainee

Marie December 15, 2009 at 11:06 pm

Hey Annie, better than Indiana Jones, Harry Potter or Mary Poppins ? Heahh ! You’re the best :)) Congratulations :)

Light & Love,

Carolena Sabah December 17, 2009 at 3:32 am

Hello dear Annie, I don’t know what you are talking about but I rejoice in your triumph. Congratulations!
Btw that was a very cute picture of u!
kisses,
C.

clarisa December 14, 2009 at 9:29 pm

siempre ,hay que ver la luz,lo nuevo,dejar el pasado a tras..estas aprendiendo a volar ,mariposa..aferrate a la fuerza del amor..besos

kealan December 17, 2009 at 10:47 pm

Dear Thelma I found a way to avoid the next step – Rum; Jamican rum! A little joke!

kealan December 17, 2009 at 10:48 pm

Hay thanks Annie – I wish you the same :)

clarisa December 18, 2009 at 12:23 am

Gracias¡¡nesecito mucho animo

THELMA December 18, 2009 at 8:27 am

Thank you Swannie! The most perfect … instrument is human beings!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Olta Ana December 18, 2009 at 11:16 am

Thank you dear Annie! I liked it a lot.

Love
Olta

Liina December 19, 2009 at 3:09 am

:)

I wish more people would enjoy doing what they do with such enthusiasm, pure joy and love. Thanks, Annie!

Hope December 18, 2009 at 7:50 am

Me too! :)

Monica December 18, 2009 at 5:45 pm

Dear Thelma,

It’s nice to know that someone else feels the same way I do. I also had to feel that way, got the diploma, a good job, etc. This have not gone upside down yet, in Paulo’s case, nothing seemed to work for him so he was “forced” to write. It seems it was his destiny to write and reach to us. God’s really got the right idea!!! as he knows what we need and how to communicate in common terms with us, folk LOL.

Love

Monica

kealan December 18, 2009 at 5:48 pm

ha ha! check the broken twitter page twice a day!

Hope December 19, 2009 at 3:28 pm

Yes wonderful Annie! It is the balance again, I many times see myself in you and your posts. Step by step I go crzay :) Our pace! Amazing dont you agree? :)

Heart December 19, 2009 at 9:02 pm

A Xmas present from him to you! How sweet.

Love,
Heart

candieb December 20, 2009 at 12:08 am

Today I did gift shopping day too!How cool!;)

Love

Candie

Theresa Goubran-Keshta December 20, 2009 at 2:21 am

Wow! Lucky you! Your Christmas stocking will be bulging with Inspirations! What else could you wish for?
Happy Weeks 2010..
Love, Theresa

Olta Ana December 19, 2009 at 10:52 pm

I agree with you Catherine.

Love
Olta

Den Rod December 19, 2009 at 11:42 pm

It seems like everyone else can see my new gravatar picture but me, I still see the ET LIKE EYE :)

Theresa Goubran-Keshta December 20, 2009 at 2:39 am

To dear Alexandra, Heart, Annie and Catherine,
Your comments are inspiring,
for that I’m truly thankful.
Love, Theresa

Carolena Sabah December 20, 2009 at 3:54 am

True… :) You’re welcome Annie :)

kealan December 21, 2009 at 1:28 am

just stop going to chruch with your parents! I go for coffee with mine and chat to my mother – but I need my own spirtual time – Plus if I go to chruch I never take communion… I never go to chruch anyway; I might miss something on twitter :) ha ha… Castaneda had some good books and leasons – but shouldn’t we make our own story…

Hope December 21, 2009 at 11:41 am

Tonight is the darkest night of the year. In old Persia and still today we celebrate it, because the light wins over the darkness. Tonight has a history as long as the Mithraism religion. The Mithraists believed that this night is the night of the birth of Mithra, God of light and truth. At the morning of the longest night of the year the Mithra is born from a virgin mother.
Our family come together tonight and my grandparents tell us stories all night long. I love this night!!!

Olta Ana December 21, 2009 at 12:06 pm

I think that we have an expression here :
“No parent is ever satisfied from their own children.”(including even those who try to become their parents copies.)

You know Annie you just made me think about a friend of me. I love her very very much, and I remember than when she was a little girl, a child, she was kind of tom boy. Always going around all dirty playing football with the little kids of the neighborhood, but the most loving person I’ve ever met, and the part that has always made me laugh about her was the disputes she used to have or still has with her mother. The poor woman was always tired because she had to wash her dirty clothes. I can say that she felt the same as you are telling me now, because she has inside the feeling of rebellion, she can’t be told what to do, unless she decides to do so because of the love that she has for that person, and this is what makes her so special. I always wanted to be like her in some way.
Sometimes I used to think of her when my parents used to criticize me for the way I used to spent my time. when I was in high school, after school I came back home and before I started studying for the next day I had to start writing what crossed in my mind, or other stuff for entire hours. I just couldn’t do otherwise, but I knew that one day they would see that what I was doing at that time it wasn’t useless, and now they are seeing even though they still think of what I should be doing best.
You see Annie you can’t avoid that black sheep feeling, but I think that your mother in that moment was looking for a present from you, your forgiveness. The moment when you are about the communion it is very important to be in peace with every one, it is a very important moment. We all are weak and make mistakes and even if we say sorry we end up repeating our mistakes, we just can’t help it. It has happened to me to, to want so much to apologize to all those I felt to, just right when I am in that line.
I don’t know if you have noticed it Annie but every time you get the communion it reflects inside, all what you are hiding in your soul.

Thank you for sharing this Annie!
Love
Olta

Heart December 21, 2009 at 4:01 pm

Dearest Sis,

Thank you for sharing a heartfelt moment on your spiritual journey. As for you as for me winter solstice used to be such a turning point every year, in the dark cold north, as it meant things would start to warm up and light up again. As a contrast, here…I was sunbathing yesterday (not for long, just to feel the lovely sun on the body), and it’s pretty much warm and light all year around. And, part of why I am a happier person now than before, is I got away from my mother! I love her to pieces, but I cannot stand to be near her too much. She says things annoying me, she makes sounds I hate, and there is a deep deep problem between us, I can only handle when our contact is very limited.

You are getting to the end of your education girl, which will be your ticket to independence and starting your own life. Perhaps it is tradition in Greece to stay with parents till you get married. But what if you decide you want to live your life unmarried…are you going to stay with them till your dying day? If there is only one Church in your home town, could you move to the next town? Take little baby steps, to start to live your own wonderful positive WOL’s spiritual life, without any ‘sorries’…just more of your ‘love & gratitudes’.

Kealan is right, Twitter is better than Church sometimes! My own attendance in Church is on and off. I really don’t go unless it makes my heart leap with joy..which is dependent on such as if you like the priest, the church building style, the atmosphere in a church, who attends a certain parish…and many, many more things. In my situation, my nearest Church is one of those huge practical, modern churches, which fills up with ‘snowbirds’ (Canadians) during the entire winter, retired old Canadians, and really I feel to young to spend each Sunday with a bunch of grandparents. Also, they appear so ‘better than everybody else because we have give our $ donations’ so nah I do my prayers mostly in my chamber. However, each time I visit a Church, which has the peace and Divine Presence, and I can sit down and pray, I just adore to do so.

Annie, I know you are on your right track to fill yourself and everybody around you with love and light, don’t let anybody ruin it.

Love & admiration,
Heart
xxx

Hope December 21, 2009 at 3:22 pm

ah my comment was not supposed to be here :)

Olta Ana December 21, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Even if Paulo does that it would be better if faint hearts doesn’t come to know that…
Better lets see first who really can’t attend, so after that let the choice by chance begin…Still it is such a painful idea…

Love
Olta

Olta Ana December 21, 2009 at 10:05 pm

I know :P…But I said that just in case…;D.Love <3

Olta Ana December 21, 2009 at 10:32 pm

I felt like sharing that about communion because it happens that some people doesn’t take it seriously. Every Sunday there is a miracle going op, because we receive the fire of Jesus love through his blood.
And about mistakes I agree with you in this too, but some aren’t able to “fix” their selves that easily.
You said that you talk to her for these problem, and I think this is the best solution, but just lets keep in mind that not everyone can be as strong willing as you.

Much Love
Olta

dusica December 21, 2009 at 10:59 pm

Dear Annie

Good luck with “not have expectations of your child” …that was my dream too.
Now I`m mom of two …..is not that easy be without expectations.
My little one girl – Lenka is birthday today. On your and my special day. She is 6 now and she is so stabern ..you cant emagine. Beside my Mama was never satiscifed with me, but when I stop pay attention on her, slowly she starts to respect me. Luka is my big one and he is almost 18 years old and he is OK….but every day he find the way to ” eat my liver” one way or another.
Give your Mama little credit parenting is difficult job believe me!

Kiss daer future mom Annie

Monica December 22, 2009 at 8:41 pm

Dear Annie,

Thank you for sharing, I see my daughter in you and knowing your feelings help me see through your eyes and through your heart. Lucia is 10 and she is my oldest child. For whatever reason I’ve always been tougher with her than with the younger one. I’ve always expected more from her than from the other child. I’ve noticed that this year has brought me a lot to learn and I thank God for giving me these oportunities to learn.

Love

Monica

marie-christine December 22, 2009 at 9:41 pm

Merci Catherine Jojo y Clarisa gracias a todos
Wishing you all a Mery Xmas and all the very best for the New Year
Love
Marie-Christine

Catherine E.A. December 22, 2009 at 10:02 pm

nicely said Annie ;o)

I shall miss not meeting you most of all at the party… so.. sometime.. next time
xxx

c'est un sacre gaillard! December 23, 2009 at 12:30 am

Ouais je le connais bien, c’est mon voisin.On fait un “karton” ensemble.:)
…et celui qui joue au tennis c’etait Johm NcKen
“You can’t be serious” Allez Riri, allez Yannick on est tous dans le meme bateau…~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“It’s a LOVE match

Gabriela Abalo December 23, 2009 at 9:31 am

Thank you dear Catherine, I’m so glad to know you enjoyed my blog.

Hope you keep coming back.

loveNlight
Gabi

candieb December 23, 2009 at 7:26 pm

A bee baking Christmas stuff!LOL

The flying bus is not passing around here!

I’m wishing you a Merry Christmas too Annie!Have a nice time!

Love

Candie

candieb December 23, 2009 at 7:30 pm

Thank you all,thank you for them.

Annie,thanks for the song.Are you for something in the fact that I’ve been singing Tori Amos all day,while baking??LOL

Theresa Goubran-Keshta December 24, 2009 at 2:29 am

Happy Christmas, Catherine, and thank you for all the interesting comments you leave around the blog.
Love and peace,
Theresa

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_café December 26, 2009 at 1:15 pm

The same to you too, derar Annie!!!

Hope December 28, 2009 at 2:37 pm

Same here :)Love to you too dear Cathrine.

Olta Ana December 28, 2009 at 4:50 pm

Easy with that button girls. hehehehe
Love <3

Catherine E.A. December 28, 2009 at 4:18 pm

well… maybe!
today is the day i first am able to play my new Enya Cd.. a Christmas gift from my mamma ;o)

Few tunes live on in my memory and heart…
but Enya’s encapsulate eternal magic …
for me

;o) Glad you also enjoy xx

Olta Ana December 28, 2009 at 4:54 pm

I am looking forward to find the right questions, but maybe it is not time yet to find them. :)
Everything has it own right time… Even questions and answers.

PS: I know that soon they’ll come to me. heheheheheh

Love
Olta

Catherine E.A. December 28, 2009 at 7:03 pm

c’est vrais!

gaurry December 29, 2009 at 12:15 pm

thanks .I am trying always .let us help with each other at least in spirits .love you ,Annie ,you are very lovely girl ,have your good time .

ARHAM December 31, 2009 at 8:18 pm

i will take it not as nakedness of body but the nakedness of soul is required because u can see people around u with their souls in shells .i hope u can understand wat i am tryin to say .remember me in ur prayers .with love and gratitude.ARHAM

THELMA December 29, 2009 at 6:31 pm

Swannie as long as the Mercury … going retrograde or … Saturn being in … Libra[as my daughter has informed me] and affecting me negatively and these goes … just on my lap-top and ..things, it is O.K. What shall we do if they will affect our .. health and well- being?? Any magical prescription, dearest Paulo Coelho??
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Marta Adriana December 29, 2009 at 7:24 pm

Satora!
Thank you very much. Your help is very much appreciated!

Alex Sandra UK December 29, 2009 at 9:15 pm

I also have been affected – my hard drive failed on Christmas Eve, then when that was replaced my charger broke! It seems I too was not ‘destined’ to communicate!!

Strangely this is the astrology forecast With ‘Mercury and Mars both being retrograde during this time, it is strongly recommended to back up important data by December 20 and to check the integrity of all systems that one relies upon for communication’.

Love
Alex

Catherine December 30, 2009 at 12:39 am

quite true!
I salute you and wish you well..
but quote PC also…
” A wise person loves. A fool tries to understand love”

[p.s. not to say I nor Annie for this matter are foolish… but… honour the mystery and magic….
Time is usually always on your/our/one’s side!
Blessings to all.

Hope December 30, 2009 at 8:14 pm

Jaa Annie!! The dvd from this concert and a glas of wine and I am in heaven! The sound, the images and the whole arrangement is made by beautiful souls!

Jojo December 31, 2009 at 1:56 am

Thanks for your kind words.
Love and Gratitude to you too, Annie
Jojo

THELMA December 31, 2009 at 9:25 am

Annie, Swannie, YOU KNOW I love you!
Sing your Song and be proud of yourself always!
LOVE,
Mάμμα ΘΕΛΜΑ xxx
p.s. This song goes from one generation to the other! I used to sing it at school..

Santosh Kalwar January 1, 2010 at 7:50 pm

Catherine,
Thank you so much, appreciated !

God bless you !

kealan January 1, 2010 at 9:11 pm

ha ha ha >> ;] Nice video – Thanks Annie … so how big is the hole in the ozone layer again!

katie January 2, 2010 at 12:21 am

whow!
like this, too.
great to see both :o)

I was in the woods and could not see the one they did in our town.
good alternative for me now :o)

Gaurry January 2, 2010 at 5:00 am

last morning,i
saw the date in phone screen and I couldn’t help shouting out :I can’t used to it!there should be a long time for my brain to get use !boy!how quickly it passed!even my child shouted: o,I don’t want to grow up!but it won’t listen to us!

katie January 1, 2010 at 11:57 pm

cute – PCB castle :o)

katie January 2, 2010 at 12:07 am

Annie,

thanks for the video: beautiful!

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 2, 2010 at 12:17 am

Thank you, Annie.
This is a beautiful poem and covers all aspects of our lives. May we all follow the advice given in the poem and find peace and happiness in 2010.
God bless you,
Love, Theresa

rosa de los vientos January 2, 2010 at 12:30 am

Thank you very much Annie I take with me this poem ever in my life.

Marta Adriana January 2, 2010 at 2:07 am

You enlightened my evening.
Lots of gratitude.

Gaurry January 2, 2010 at 4:44 am

Very nice ,we ‘d never compared with others,since we’re
Unique even if we’re blind at this sometimes。

THELMA January 2, 2010 at 9:48 am

OH dearest Swannie, this is beautiful! Thank you. I needed it right now!!
STRIVE TO BE HAPPY !! Not … try or wish or a.. lukewarm advice! Fight with ‘ENTHUSIASM’, Passion and PEACE IN OUR SOUL, to achieve our Goals, our dreams, without ‘semi-solutions’ and forgetting our .. Heart on the WAY! Because: ‘you have a RIGHT to be here’ and … THE RIGHT TO BE HAPPY!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Jojo January 2, 2010 at 5:36 pm

Loved it Annie! That poem shared gave me a boost of good energy. With affection, Jojo.

James January 3, 2010 at 3:35 am

Thank you Annie, beautiful poem:

“be on good terms with all persons; you have the right to be here; be gentle with yourself; be at peace with God;”

thanks

Daniel January 3, 2010 at 1:23 pm

Thank-you Annie. This is so beautiful. I will try to respond and do justice to this beautiful work..here goes..

Meus nixus (Desiderata)

I slow my step and listen,
and take each moment as it comes without striving.

To all just attention,
speaking my mind in quiet fortitude,
without cajoling;
gathering the wisdom of others,
that I may know myself fully.

To the stranger on the street,
I smile;
Always a sure foot forward,
and thanks cast beyond,
I submit to the path,
and acknowledge it’s gift.

With surety I walk forward,
listening to my heart,
sidestepping doubt.
When love calls,
I respond in kind,
realising the dream,
keeping my head and my heart,
each in hand.

Knowing I am sometimes alone,
But old enough to gather in my threads,
And weave an image of beauty and wealth,
taken from all my experiences,
Neither good nor bad.

I accept who I am,
with a tender caress.
I feel the seeds in my soul,
from the heart of all that is.
I give them light and nourishment,
that they may grow where they might,
without asking questions,
With God’s grace they will bloom.

This way I let God guide my hand,
while I direct my own fate.
In so doing I am on my path,
with peace in my heart,
and confusion passes by.

I weep when I am sad,
I laugh when I am full of joy.
This is life,
my path to eternity.

Olta Ana January 3, 2010 at 5:09 pm

Tank you Annie, and as Theresa said, it really covers all the aspects of our lifes. The ideal for the beginning of a new year.

Love xxx
Olta

Rombout January 3, 2010 at 7:15 pm

Thanks Daniel, comforting, reassuring!
Love, Bout

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 8, 2010 at 1:40 am

Yes, maybe they have ulterior motives !!!

Jojo January 8, 2010 at 1:59 am

:-)
Another way of getting by saying it cares about our health!!!!
Love, Jojo.

Yoomi January 8, 2010 at 3:05 am

Absolutely!

Olta Ana January 8, 2010 at 11:05 am

Thank you about your comment Annie!
In fact I know that imagination is very powerful and it comes out from what we call reality. Still what I want is to not be subjective in any point of view of life.
As u say, I bring my own image of her, this is what I think too, willing or not things to be this way…
But I think it is true that nature’s spirit, her soul, can’t be seized. Nobody can. Maybe as much as we could try we could be able to reflect only some parts of her image.

There was a story with Jesus that I am about to share with you.
A king send his servant to have a picture of Jesus face, since he had heard so much about him.
The man went to accomplish what he was ordered to do, but when he started to make the sketches of Jesus face he couldn’t make it because it seemed like changing all the time, and so it was very difficult. Then Jesus after he saw him striving that much went to wash his face and asked for an handkerchief. This way Jesus let the image of his face on that handkerchief, so that the man could bring it to his king. Nowdays there are some copies of it on paper. I have one.
Jesus image has the ability to bring out the way you feel inside when you see that image. I was amazed when it happened to me. It made me smile, others cry, others…it is really amazing.
This is the way that maybe nature act with our souls.

Love
Olta

Monica January 8, 2010 at 5:41 pm

it’s a conspiracy!!!

THELMA January 8, 2010 at 8:06 pm

Happy Birthday to your son, dear beautiful, proud mother, Catherine.
We missed you too.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 8, 2010 at 8:07 pm

Hi Catherine,
Nice to see you again! Happy birthday to your son and God bless your special day!
Love, Theresa

Olta Ana January 8, 2010 at 8:09 pm

I am giving back some love to you.
And Happy birthday to your son.

Much Love
Olta

Jojo January 8, 2010 at 8:23 pm

Thanks for your thought
Yes, a special day when our child turns 18 … for a mother as for the child
Take care
Love, Jojo.

Monica January 8, 2010 at 9:54 pm

Catherine, Happy day to you!!!!! for it’s been 18 wonderful days of joy!!!!!

with Joy

Monica

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_café January 9, 2010 at 2:26 pm

Happy birthday to your son! The eighteen birthday it’s a really special day. I hope that he had a really nice day.

Kisses from Barcelona,

Miriam

Alexandra January 9, 2010 at 9:10 am

I thought Americans are in the top, never heard about Greeks…Is that true?

katie January 9, 2010 at 9:39 am

hm…
the greek diet tastes so good :o) I loved to go to Greece and also do island hopping. it is fascinating how the spicing changes within Greece.
I still cook greek recipes that I ate when I was in skopelos.
but the great cheese and the joghurt -> delicious :o)

Olta Ana January 9, 2010 at 2:36 pm

I have some cousins who live in Greece and I’d really want to go there and visit them there. I’ve never been in Greece…

Love
OLta

Gaurry January 9, 2010 at 12:46 pm

Agree! I ‘ ve visited Greek last summer ! The food is the most delious , so delious that I don’t want to think it healthy or not and the price is very nice compared to other places I have been to in this world ! The Greece people are very kind too ! Oh , not mention the scenery there ! Alike heaven !
Hurry ! Greek !

Gaurry January 9, 2010 at 4:24 pm

Then go , it’s the most beautiful place i ‘ve visited till now in the world ! The other is Switzerland and Chengdu in China!of course each country born it’s own charming character as same as each one here ! all the soul is beautiful and blessed by the God !

katie January 10, 2010 at 5:34 am

so: Greece is “she” in your country?

I also had the feeling as if the whole history & mythology were still alive and influenced the atmosphere.
the small islands I visited felt being enchanted. I can understand Ulisses going from one island to the other :o)

hospitality: on one island, we went with bikes to the beach. and there was a big curve. and we knew, after the curve we had to get off the bikes because there would be a big group of small goats – 40-60, more? – standing there in the middle of the street with their shepherd and “talking”. there were so many that you really needed to look for a way through. not kidding: every day for 2 weeks….
I had always the feeling they waited for us, and we got greeted by all of them. and this strong goaty smell from all of them – I just loved it.
a pity, since we could not speak greek, we could not chat with the shepherd. but body language can still be used.

Den Rod January 10, 2010 at 3:02 am

Hey Annie it’s been quite some time we haven’t spoke to each other, how you doing, hope your hands and butterfly are healed already, I still have PEPSI everyday, how about you, do you prefer COCA COLA? !

I prefer P E P S I.

Love and Gratitude
DR

Den Rod January 10, 2010 at 3:14 am

PS: I miss you.

Catherine E.A. January 11, 2010 at 4:44 pm

very true… there is one type of harp… 5x the price, but it is a healing harp…
one day … i hope to play it ;o)

Daniel January 10, 2010 at 1:51 pm

Ha! I remember knocking at the door of a guest house on the island of Folegandros at about 2pm just before easter one year, and the woman who answered the door had obviously been asleep… she was having a VERY bad hair day! HA! Maybe she was up all night painting the paving stones? ;-)

Den Rod January 10, 2010 at 9:28 pm

I feel so much better now. !
I think I love you. !
Bye. !
DR

Daniel January 11, 2010 at 1:39 am

Annie, I know a woman who always reads the end of a book first. She claims it means she can then relax and enjoy the story without worrying about the ending! I’ve been tempted to try her method, but I enjoy the unknown too much!

Olta Ana January 11, 2010 at 6:10 pm

When you know how you will die, what’s left is to learn how to live. ;)

katie January 12, 2010 at 8:23 am

John Irving’s book “A prayer for Owen Meany” says from the beginning that Owen Meany knows when he dies and how. and his death comes at the end. I fell in love with Owen on the first page. was so hard :o). and loved to read the book and suffered at the same time …

beautifully written. the book reads like a stone that is thrown into a quiet pond. each ring that is generated on the surface is one story. so Irving opens one ring after the other. and then closed those rings later in the book…of course, the last ring that is closed is the first ring that was opened.

beautiful.

katie January 12, 2010 at 1:06 pm

yes, Annie, that actually felt like this.

there is a logic in the closing of rings. at a certain point, I knew how he would die. I remember even though I felt it, I read fast, fast to find out and at the same time hoping that it will not be true.

Hope January 11, 2010 at 10:10 pm

I smile, but she doesn’t see, She just doesn’t see, No she doesn’t see :)

THELMA January 12, 2010 at 8:37 am

SWANNIE, I ‘knew’ it!!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Hope January 12, 2010 at 1:02 pm

ah you think of the clock now? Ja :) Can I ask you something Annie? Sorry but I have wondered a long time what <3 means and can not the answer yet.
You use it alot. Thank you butterfly.

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 12, 2010 at 5:39 pm

I was like Hope, I didn’t know the meaning of the sign either, so I asked a 9 yr old girl! She gave me the ‘heart’ explanation, but I don’t think she knew the other two !!!

Hope January 12, 2010 at 5:58 pm

Great! Wich one did you send me Annie ? hahha

Heart January 12, 2010 at 10:50 pm

Hi Annie,

Another question for Paulo…Would we be allowed to work in teams? For instance, I could drive and you could read the map :)) The guy with the gold teeth wouldn’t mind haveing two pics taken, one of you and him and one of me and him!! <3

katie January 13, 2010 at 12:21 am

funny!
thank you hope for your courage.
had the same problem
<3

Paulo Coelho January 13, 2010 at 1:18 am

yes, of course

Heart January 13, 2010 at 3:24 pm

Yes…and you can translate Spanish into English and I know a couple of tricks to survive in the desert :)
Me too, so excited!! Still, I think we should get Mama/BFF om-board, and we could go in style in her Mercedes. Reconsider Thelma! Reconsider Kealan…A one chance of in a lifetime!

Paulo Coelho January 13, 2010 at 7:32 pm

yes, for the party is it under invitation only. For the sword, it is open to everybody.

Gaurry January 14, 2010 at 11:10 am

I don’t ware anything, I’ll be waiting in the end , till you all tired, rob it hahaha…..

Paulo Coelho January 15, 2010 at 2:15 am

No relation to the Tradition (we don’t pay 10.000 USD for tasks…). It is just a way I found to make people moving to a reality that is not only virtual.

katie January 15, 2010 at 6:47 am

wise butterfly <3

elaine January 15, 2010 at 7:16 am

Yea,

Less couch potatoes and fat fannies, oops can’t say that. Sorry Kealan, … and fat arsses.

Love ya Paulo and Kealan and all WOLs

Meet you on the path *-*

Lainee

Montega January 15, 2010 at 8:48 am

‘we don’t pay 10.000 USD for tasks…’ – This is so funny! i love it!

Alex Sandra UK January 15, 2010 at 10:41 am

Dear Paulo,

Just to confirm to you that although I probably won’t be the first to complete The Enigma anyway as I am in the middle of moving my house and business 200 miles away, but IF I do complete the task first I want you to donate my payment to charity. I would like to do the task for the sword and also for my own adventure. If the sword is not for me, then the right person will find it first I hope.

Much love to you.
Alex

Monika January 15, 2010 at 12:16 pm

My reality is not virtual at all – otherwise I would put more often the reset or delete button ;-).

THELMA January 15, 2010 at 6:59 pm

A nice weekend to you, dear Catherine Martinez, too.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Hope January 16, 2010 at 1:34 am

Oh Annie! We will plant our hands in the garden
We will grow! I know I know I know
and swallows will lay eggs
in the hollow of our ink-stained hands.
Love and GraDTitude!*

Daniel January 16, 2010 at 2:06 am

“Home is where they understand you, not where you live” :-)

Alexandra January 16, 2010 at 8:39 am

That so true, I never felt I have to pretend over here, people are really kind to me, the kindest.

Jojo January 17, 2010 at 5:39 am

Oh my G … Sing! Are you sure? Maybe whistle a bit to start … Brave, courageous, I do not know why I have difficulty with those, but magician, yes … ah, you are right … brave and courageous fit me as well.

Love to you Annie, Jojo

katie January 18, 2010 at 9:05 am

Annie.
love it :o)

Paulo Coelho January 18, 2010 at 7:34 pm

no, but the prize is for one person only. You may share it.

Tarek January 18, 2010 at 7:51 pm

Dear Annie I am sorry to hear that..
such a poor soul (the thief) to make his living at the cost of others…
For you, yes it is a lesson to learn..
It is not coincidence how much Paulo’s Quote of the Week fit your situation..
Yes, forgive but do not forget…
Wish you lots of power.
Love
Tarek

kealan January 18, 2010 at 8:02 pm

Hay Annie,

You poor thing… You know you can make almost perfect recordings using programs on your computer… all you need is a quiet room and some recording equipment.. for a demo it does not need to be recording studio quality… You should look at the program NERO – I use it to make high quality hypnosis tapes and videos …. broadcast quality… If we find a piano in Austria I can record you with my Sony cam ( I got a special mic ) and I can edit it for you when I get home and send it to you… It’s a long shot to find a piano but the offer stands… also I remember when I was hairdressing years ago in a past life – a guy came in one day who promoted different bands and acts; he was also a conductor for the Irish Symphony Orchestra… but he told me that if you want to make a demo you should get photos done and a short video etc just for a little extra push… Anyway I’m sure I’m not that helpful lol

kealan

THELMA January 18, 2010 at 8:12 pm

What happened really, Swannie? Mama does not understand?

LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Monica January 18, 2010 at 8:45 pm

Annie,

Trust in God and he will never let you down. The universe will conspire to give you what you need. A month ago a couple from Chicago stop at our church. They were broken, homeless, and looking for their dream. Their dream was to travel to Mexico but things have gotten a little iffy around the border, which is somewhat scary even scarier when you are traveling on a bike. So they turned back and biked back 250 miles. They landed at our church and we let them borrow a house we have been trying to rent for the last 7 months.
Then they decided to leave the bikes, got some money from their family as a Christmas present and then my mother invited them to stay with her in Chiapas, Mexico. They are already there and they are happy about their decision.
So you see? trust the Lord and he will provide. I am positive you will make your dream come true. Blessings to you….today and always

Love

Monica

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_café January 18, 2010 at 9:25 pm

ow, I’m sorry to read it, dear Annie… I don’t lnow what can write you…
I send you a big kiss and a hugs!

Miriam

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 18, 2010 at 10:03 pm

Dear Annie,
So sorry to hear of you being robbed like that! I’ve had this happen to me several times here (too much poverty causes crime), so I know how you feel. Each time I felt helpless and empty! Hoping you weren’t injured in any way??
Take care, and as Hildegarde said, tomorrow is a ‘new day and a new dawn.’
Love, Theresa

Satora January 18, 2010 at 10:12 pm

Dear Annie,

so sorry to hear about your “sucky day”…

Some jewelry was stolen from a hotel room I stayed at many years ago…the circumstances were quite strange…I did not take any action what so ever…and to this day my “hubby” thinks I went to pawn shop…I don’t even bother to explain it anymore.

As to cash….I have blessed some strangers with finding good amounts that I have lost during my life…

Once in Athens in a tram my passport and my drivers license were stolen. I felt violated…I got a new passport right away…but my drivers license…I haven’t been able to get a new one. Every time I try to get a new license something happens…and I can’t get it….so I read the signs ….and I walk!!!

Take care my dear..

With loving kindness,

Satora

Josephine in Brussels January 18, 2010 at 10:53 pm

Annie,

that really sucks!
is there any possibility we could help you?
(you can email me if you like)

Josephine

Daniel January 18, 2010 at 11:02 pm

Sometimes life tests us in ways that seem unfair. Universal justice will take care of the unhappy soul who robbed you, even if the police don’t. As soon as you try to “possess” something it becomes a burden you must carry. You are free for the moment to make new plans and adjust to your new situatiohn. The thief has a heavy load.

With love, Daniel

katie January 18, 2010 at 11:20 pm

Annie,

I wish for you a miracle <3
sorry to hear about the troubles.
big hug
-k

Jojo January 18, 2010 at 11:43 pm

Dear Annie, the way you write about what is happening to you is intense. I am truly sensible of the hurt that you are going through. And yes, need to look at the sky, take a deep breath and go into that journey.

Love, Jojo.

Den Rod January 19, 2010 at 1:15 am

Keep walking.
Miracles happen.
Be strong.

DR

Nancy January 19, 2010 at 7:16 am

After reading your post very late in the day I felt sad. It is good you are letting it out of your system, because a stranger who takes from you hits you in the heart and mind. You are strong! Thank you for reminding us to be careful with our credit, debit cards.

Alexandra January 19, 2010 at 8:42 am

Dear Annie, I am sorry you were hurt, how can anyone hurt such a tender creature like you? I hardly believe that, but I remember I passed such momments myself. I thank you for being here, with you kind way of talking and with you golden heart, full with love.
Take care
Love
Alexandra

Olta Ana January 19, 2010 at 11:33 am

Oh Annie this is such an ugly thing to do.
It is funny because yesterday I felt the same as you for something it happened to me. It wasn’t this bad as you, but I can assure you that I felt very sorry.
I said to my self the world is not full of lambs, but there is nothing better that the bitterness of that feeling to make you remind of the lesson.

Thank you Annie for being the way you are! ;D

Much Love
Olta

gaurry January 19, 2010 at 12:15 pm

My dear ,this is life ,yes ?so sorry know it so late. do you know ,my car is scratched intendedly by who knew whom with a key or some tough metal ___ drew it a circle line round the car body . for fun or mokeyshine . if I want to have it renew ,I have to paint my whole car body .what’s the cost ?MY god ?!
but everything would be gone .yes .this is life .have sweet have bitter .let us get through .don’t feel sad ,anymore ,dear .see how many person love you!

elaine January 20, 2010 at 7:16 am

Ohh, Annie,

My heart weeps for you. Please feel warm hugs from around the world and from heaven. You are so wonderful and you Do have a beautiful voice and talent. Do not ever forget that. More chances will come because the Universe needs to be healed and you and your good are part of the plan.

We love you our sweet WOL.

Love you,
Lainee

THELMA January 18, 2010 at 9:49 pm

I thought that Plastic money and Visa cards and whatever name they have, need a PIN or a password in order to ‘work’. If this is not the case, then what is the use of using them???? Or I think, the Bank and the Police do not want to do their job. This happens too!
I feel so sorry, Swannie. My eldest daughter has lost golden jewellery many times; she used to forget where she had put them!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Glasgow 1.19pm February 4, 2010 at 1:23 pm

maybe the solution is to use finger print.the right one! of course!

Satora January 18, 2010 at 11:50 pm

Dear Annie,

when you buy things in shops you do not need a PIN but to take money out of machine even if your card is a electron Visa the person needed a PIN…

Why don’t you call Consumer Protection 1520 tomorrow for there is no such thing as an unregistered ATM machine!!!!

Satora

kealan January 19, 2010 at 5:50 am

In Ireland if this happens the bank has to pay you back… you should ring the parent bank… … anyway your bank has to pay you back… it is their responsibility to protect your money not yours… it is a bank after all ;)

Monica January 19, 2010 at 8:47 pm

Actually here in the States when you go to a store they give you the option of using credit or debit and with debit you have to enter your PIN. Don’t feel bad Annie because this is a scam that’s been hitting a lot of people. Also at the gas station’s pumps; when you put gas you have to enter your PIN and there’s been instances where some bad people use other peoples info and purchase stuff. Even paying by check is not safe anymore, since anybody can carry out transactions with the account number; basically giving out account numbers is also unsafe as this happened to our bank’s vice president as she explained.

Like Annie mentioned earlier, with the state of the economy things have gotten pretty ugly out there. Just be safe and keep an eye for scammers.

:)cheeky January 19, 2010 at 12:26 am

oh good I could have a haircut then and y could give one to my horsey as well>>>

katie January 19, 2010 at 6:34 am

Annie,

I like to help, please contact me via e-mail. Supi may be able to give it you.
Yes, Supi, Please.
-k

Monica January 20, 2010 at 1:28 am

Lovely Song Annie, Thanks!!! I really like Led Zeppelin….they were awesome, from a different era that will live forever!!

Jojo January 19, 2010 at 2:01 pm

No offense … Today is a new today … well at this moment for me in Montreal :-)
Today, I accept with serenity what I cannot change, I change what I can with wisedom … I will be today the Warrior of Light that will be attentive to all signs, messages, etc … to help me find the meaning and purpose of all that is happening to me, the strength to stay firm with my dreams, the openess to what He wants to show me, to what he wants me to grab … All night, have been “attacked” by negative spirits … a sign that there is an attack of negative energies and need to “re-energize” myself … I priorize meditation, calmness knowing that what has to be learned or understood will come by itself.

I wish you Annie force, fulness of the energy of the Creator to the creator that you are, courage … and joy because you are a child of the Great.

Love, Jojo.

Jojo January 20, 2010 at 1:50 pm

Dear Annie
What is there for me … you are so sweet, kind, generous. Your words are supportive, “fresh and clean” … As for the boat and the sea, I want to share for me what they mean for me. For me, I must not stay on the surface of things. I need to dive in the sea when something intense is happening. I used to minimize, to “forgive and forget rapidly”, “to start going in that place where nothing is bad, hurtful, etc …”, but did not get the lesson or deep meanings of things. I used to be that kind of survivor who flee, tried to make sure not to find myself in that position, not on a protective manner but fear and defensive manner, and to attack the enemy to silence it. That manner always kept me on the surface … on the boat … Now, I dive in the sea (sure that there is big waves and I wished to stay on the boat) … so I dive … at the beginning, afraid to die of it, to suffer, etc … but then something attracts me to the bottom … and at the bottom lies a city, a dome, the center … calm, peace, knowledge, and I come back to the surface, to the boat, always with a new treasure found in that treasure box lying under that dome. And strangely, the boat becomes bigger and bigger, more adapted to my needs, more reliable, more equipped. Me who before hated the water, the contact of my body on it, now I dive. That sea is my sea, my interior, my universe, my truth that needs to be found and recovered.

Love to you Annie and yes Gratitude also, Jojo.

kealan January 20, 2010 at 12:08 am

Thanks guys … my mind is resting now and I feel that I can recover some sanity I have lost over the years and espically the last few weeks ha ha he he ha ;) and I forgot to say ty to Supi for taking down some posts over the years when I have requested ;p

kealan January 20, 2010 at 5:11 pm

RT now dance Wonder Boy around the sword!!hehe!..or a ha he.. >> I’ll keep on dancing till the day I die ;L&G

Olta Ana January 20, 2010 at 8:31 pm

This is great! I am happy for you dear Catherine! And I think I’ll miss you.

Love
Olta

Monica January 20, 2010 at 8:50 pm

ohhhh Catherine, how exciting!!!! One of these days I will take off and do a quest like this. I have talked to my mom about Santiago de Compostela and she would love to go with me. I trust the universe will tell me when it is right to do it, and I don’t feel the call yet.
May you find a wonderful adventure ahead of you and keep us informed on your advances.

Love

Monica

katie January 21, 2010 at 7:00 am

whow!
good luck :o)
-k

Nancy January 21, 2010 at 7:44 am

Catherine, Happy travels! What a big step for a challenge that suddenly shows up on Paulo’s blog. Good luck, and hope the roads lead you and your son to wonderful places.

kealan January 21, 2010 at 3:32 pm

Dear Catherine & Amaury… good luck on your Quest. I hope you find what you are looking for & God keeps you both safe on your path. I will be thinking and praying for you.

Jojo January 20, 2010 at 9:11 pm

Wish you a wonderful Quest of the Sword with your son. Can’t wait to have your news …

Love, Jojo.

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 20, 2010 at 11:23 pm

Very good news! Good luck! Will be thinking of you!
God be with you both.
Love, Theresa

Marta Adriana January 22, 2010 at 5:16 am

The best of the best, dear Catherine, on this journey!
My son is telling me now he’d also would like to go in the quest of the sword. I guess he needs to grow up and afford the trip himself.
Love to you too.
Adriana

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 21, 2010 at 2:00 am

Good idea, Annie! A patient’s experiences would make a good story!

gaurry January 21, 2010 at 12:12 pm

like Irvin Yalom!

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 21, 2010 at 2:24 pm

Yes, he got the 2000 Oscar Pfister prize (for important contributions to religion and psychiatry)
Come on Kealan!

Heart January 22, 2010 at 4:31 pm

Smiling. Oh, and isn’t Kahlil Gibran’s words so very comforting and encouraging too!

Agape ke eugnomosene!
Heart

katie January 23, 2010 at 10:03 am

Thanks, Butterfly.
many,many luck to you :o)

Tarek January 22, 2010 at 8:54 pm

Dear Annie,
I agree totally dark does not mean evil! it is we with our limited conscious (understanding) that we give the label good and evil! But we have to live with these concepts of good and evil because at the end our conscious is a very precious gift and it is what makes us Human! it is only that we have to admit the presence of darkness in each one of us!
Love,
Tarek

P.s. Tarek means in Arabic the morning or evening guess what?
STAR :-)

marie-christine January 22, 2010 at 11:04 pm

wow the picture looks great Catherine & son.
Enjoy your journey!
Beijos! :)

Alex Sandra UK January 23, 2010 at 12:22 am

Wishing you a magical journey, look forward to reading the updates!

Love
Alex
xx

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 23, 2010 at 1:35 am

Hi Catherine,
Thanks for the link which will help me to follow your journey! It’s very nice! Good luck!
Love, Theresa

marie-christine January 22, 2010 at 11:21 pm

Lovely Heart!
Thank you.
:) bjos

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 22, 2010 at 11:51 pm

Hello Tarek,
Yes, I agree, we are not perfect and in accepting ourselves, we have to ‘admit the presence of darkness,’ otherwise, we would be lying to ourselves.
Only God is perfect.
Theresa

Den Rod January 23, 2010 at 1:54 am

Yes. !

THELMA January 23, 2010 at 11:56 am

Swannie, I like your playful mood always with words!! ;-] You hafta!!!!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Heart January 23, 2010 at 3:59 pm

lol lol yes we do!

Tarek January 23, 2010 at 7:46 pm

Dear Annie,
Are lions really bad for the Antelopes? I don’t think so.
Probably without Lion there will no Antelopes..
You Lions help to keep the numbers of Antelopes under check because if there will too much of them they will not have enough food to eat, this is not to mention that Lions eat mainly the sick and week Antelopes whose presence may endanger the whole herd..
It is only we think that this is bad and evil. But nature is smarter than us.
And who knows maybe the smart Antelopes consider Lions their best friends for helping them keep their species ;-).
Love from Melmac :-D

katie January 23, 2010 at 11:03 pm

Tarek,
this is all so abstract ….
it really depends from which level you look at “good” and “bad” :o)
do you want to use a philosophy that is based on rules that are linked or unlinked to earth/life?

when the lion comes the antelope runs for its life.
when a murder comes after you. you will run or attack.
but at this moment: do you think that the murderer is good for you? do you see the broader evolutionary theory behind it: natural selection? and think: of course, now I will recognize my adaptive value in evolution?

big hug
-k

p.s. what problems I have with this blog today …
I see watches everywhere and never the submit buttom.
may be linked to the comments I want to write :o)?

kealan January 24, 2010 at 8:57 pm

yes… he needs to get his cat passport… no joke!

Montega January 25, 2010 at 12:56 am

thank you Annie:) i was amazed too!

- whom do i serve? i serve who deserves serving.

monica January 25, 2010 at 2:19 am

Thank you Theresa, Olta, Katie and Annie for the wonderful wishes and the positive thoughts you’ve send my way!! I am so happy to be here sharing with you all, this place has been nothing but pure enjoyment!!!

Love

Monica

THELMA January 25, 2010 at 9:43 am

Thank you Theresa and Annie.
DO you know Swannie that …. swans get a .. divorce too?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8477351.stm
Tarek published this in Facebook! Thank you Tarek! Even swans get … bored on a …. Sunday afternoon, dear Paulo Coelho!! ;-]

Annie, I think we are going to meet on the …18th of February!! We are going to Athens with friends for a few days!
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Pandora January 25, 2010 at 12:07 pm

I saw that on the news yesterday, it is very rare though… there are many swans on a lake where I walk regularly, I once saw their necks entwine to make a heart shape… a woman told me she had been going there for forty years and this was the first time she had ever seen it….

Was incredibly beautiful to see…

Lots of love
Pandora
XXX

Gaurry January 25, 2010 at 3:48 pm

Wonderful! I think maybe the swans got influenced by the humanbeing! Hahaha:)thanks for putting the link here!

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 28, 2010 at 3:17 am

Hi Annie, I’m glad you popped up…I didn’t see you today so I thought maybe you were sick!?
Talking about being ‘single’, I think that it can be ‘freedom’, or a prison; either one imposed from outside circumstances or of one’s own making! I think the greatest challenge of all is “to walk in life alone.”

gaurry January 28, 2010 at 5:16 am

Hi ,all my dear friends here ,thanks a lot for your inspiring words .and I think this opinion should be from a man,and I quoted it from the H.L.Mencken.think it a little funny so post here .for me ,I’m married ,I don’t think I want to experience the single days any more ,although sometimes I really wish I can get more my own time .speak to the “wish be killed “?maybe ,when I was arguing with my husband ,sometimes I really wish I can kill him or be killed .of course the happiness of familly still occupied most of my thme .I remembered when I was traveling in Egypt ,there is one fruit named date ,pretty puckery as well as sweet meanwhile so I told my friends :don’t think of the puckery but think of the sweet ,the taste is not so sad at all .yes ,anything have the white and black as Alexandra say .it’s just see how we see it in our eyes as Monica’s words ,thanks a lot ,my dear .and Marie ,prepare a good wedding, and ready for enjoying your happy marriage .don’t be feared by this words !I enjoyed my marriage although sometimes I really want to hit my man badly .but in general ,I like the sweet part more a lot than the puckery!happy everyone!smile!

candieb January 29, 2010 at 1:58 pm

I agree with both of you.It depends on the story of each person.Myself I think of marriage too.I guess it’s to find a balance between being together and keeping a part of independance.I guess we are getting there.I’m not married but it is the same.I think it’s quite sad to be alone when you are longing to be hold and loved and I think it’s also sad to be with someone just to be with someone.But everyone is different and made for different thing.I,myself really enjoy la vie à deux,three in my case cause I have a son..no one can tell what the future holds for all of us but I wouldn’t want to not share my life with someone.

Jojo January 28, 2010 at 3:25 am

Dear Annie, yes, it went well … a small one this time compared to some others … As you, mine go are linked and one brings the other that is bigger … I am an Alchemist too, and that last one is who I am … a Warrior

Love to you, Jojo.

Alexandra January 28, 2010 at 1:46 pm

Okkkk…Nice to know you are happily married.Wish I could be too…

Monica January 30, 2010 at 11:07 pm

You are welcome Dear Gaurry…lovely to be exchanging thoughts with such a wonderful community!!!! Gosh…I feel full of energy again!!! Thank you God for last nights gift of love from the moon!!!

Monica

Jojo January 28, 2010 at 2:43 pm

Yes, Theresa, for me, I believe that that is what has to be achieved, being able to walk our personal path, to manifest our personal legend … alone, yes, but surrounded and never alone! That’s the Spirit.

Love, Jojo.

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 29, 2010 at 5:30 pm

Hi Jojo
I think the discussion I mentioned is Loneliness versus Aloneness !!! So, I’d better brush up on my Psychology as well as Theology! I will need a bit more time….!

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 28, 2010 at 6:47 pm

Hi Jojo,
Thank you for your beautiful thoughts.
You touched on an interesting point. I think we need to make a distiction between physical aloneness and spiritual aloneless! This would relate to Gaurry’s quote “Staying single, deadly lonely” I will have to brush up on my Theology : Physical versus Spiritual, to comment further !!! I would like to just add that one can also be alone and in prison in a marital relationship as a result of abuse, etc.
Take care,
Love, Theresa

Jojo January 29, 2010 at 5:19 pm

Dear Theresa, having been two times in a marital situation where there was no issue for me, I gained my force to take my life in charge by “getting out” of those situations. But in order to do so, I had to develop the awareness of who I am, which I gained being in those situations, and I feel gratitude for those situations in my life, since it brought me where I am. And another thing that gave strength, is that knowledge that I am not alone, am on my path, have all that I need and will always have more, that I am not alone and that I need to trust, which then I can go into the action of getting out. I have lived those hard situations (psychological abuse, manipulation, control, etc …) but at the same time I had to discover why I was there, since it takes the abuser and the abused … for me, that was my path and what I had to undergo in this life to come closer to freedom and to the expression of the best in me. To find the best in me, I had to face the worst. I am not a victim or responsible for all that happened … it was planned and I accepted that contract. Now, I speak for me, and I thank God for giving me the strength, for helping me, guiding me, and I recognized myself for having seen and heard the signs that wanted to bring me at another level, because I had to be also participant. I could have refused to see that light and stayed there. And I thanked God for I could achieve that having chosen the culture, the country where I could achieve that. But in all contexts, there are things to be conquered, to be understood, to permit to go a step further. It depends on what I like to call the Sacred Contracts of one soul with it’s Creator.

Love, Jojo.

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 29, 2010 at 7:07 pm

Hi Jojo,

Thank you so much for your feedback. I am happy that you were able to free yourself from your abusive relationships, etc. and come closer to your Creator. That is really an achievement!

To comment on my past personal experience would go beyond the scope of this blog, but I would just like to say that some women, owing to Cultural Issues or Geographical Location, can be ‘trapped’ in an abusive relationship with no means of escape! We should pray for these women, for really they are in need of help!

God bless you, Jojo.
Love, Theresa

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 30, 2010 at 1:58 am

Yes, I get your point, Jojo, vis a vis helping the women with past experiences of abuse. But in fact, for situations out in the Middle East, it is the Male attitudes we should be trying to adjust. For example, it is the norm here for women to undergo female genital mutilation at a young age. This of course has a profound effect on men’s attitudes to sexual relationships within the framework of marriage. I was so happy today to hear Paulo Coelho talking about the emphasis on the nitty gritty of things such as female circumcision, at the World Economic Forum in Davos. There is still a long way to go, but at least people are waking up to the fact that there IS a problem!
Many thanks, Jojo. It’s always nice to share your opinions.
Love, Theresa

candieb January 29, 2010 at 1:47 pm

I am sorry to hear that,it is a serie noire for you.I know those series.My main computer had the same,I lost many pics,prefer not to know which ones..it never got back as it was really.Thankfully I got the present from my wonderful boyfriend and I carried on trying to write that stuff,then I was attacked of phising,of course,now it’s allright..still I hate those problems too.From the beginning of time,mean people have tried to rob,annoy other people,now they do it through technology.Technology is progressing while souls are regressing.Funny and sadly enough.
I also have a problem with electricity nowadays..anyway,I hope you won’t suffer too bad from it.Hope your writing are saved somewhere,on paper perhaps..maybe the way to return.Lot of love to you.

candieb January 29, 2010 at 3:58 pm

Did I say allright?Well I have problem on Myspace.I wrote something two days ago and it vanished strangely,like it was another fake page,I don’t know but I put it on my blog first and have the original on paper so..still too many problems there I think I am going to delete my account.

Heart January 29, 2010 at 3:50 pm

iHola Catherine!

Did you see Kealands iCoelho? :))

Barcelona_20_euros_en_un_café January 29, 2010 at 4:20 pm

Hola Catherine!

I hope all be alright in your trip.

Kisses,

Miriam

Olta Ana January 29, 2010 at 4:40 pm

I wish you a great time Catherine!
Much Love
Olta

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 29, 2010 at 9:09 pm

Hi Catherine,
Good luck, hope all is going to plan!
“There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey.” Jim England.
Love, Theresa

Marta Adriana January 31, 2010 at 10:18 pm

The best of the best to you dear Catherine! Keep going. I’m praying for you.

Alexandra January 29, 2010 at 4:44 pm

Hello dearest Annie
Is really bad idea taking pills, for they always have side effects, while natural things rarely do. Is not always so easy not drinking, eating, if you are in company of people who have such habits. But for great results one need sacrifice, and more if at a certain level, but the problem I think starts when one cant give to all success, and try shortcuts(which might be ilegal, in case of competitions). Is sad seing big sports man in such positions, sometimes they have bad end. Maybe is not the best example, but I saw a movie with Mickey Rourke, very sad, about a wrestler.
We need to think well before doing things.
WISH everybody a great time
Love
Alexandra

Gabriela Abalo January 29, 2010 at 6:20 pm

Thank you Annie.
I do agree with you pills are not an option, moderation and self-love is the key.

loveNlight
Gabi

Heart January 29, 2010 at 9:14 pm

Catherine, it is a play with words iPod, iPad, iRaq, and Kealand came up with iCoelho. Why did you say iHola?
xxx

kealan January 31, 2010 at 9:45 am

I came up with iCoelho even b4 I knew about the iCoelho app! he he… I know where I want to live – Kealand – Land of the free & land of the Keys

Jojo January 29, 2010 at 10:17 pm

Thanks to for your feedback. Am fully aware of those situations and contextes dear Theresa and yes for those all I can do is pray for them and help those who cross my path the best I can with all that I can. I believe that each has an individual experience to share with others who have similar, and others do the same with others, so everything is reached at the end …

Love, Jojo.
PS I tend to be one that believes that everything is possible if you wish it so to be though … I think of those who share their experiences who were trapped and achieved and then commit themselves in creating organisms or foundations to help those who continue to be trapped like they were.

Theresa Goubran-Keshta January 30, 2010 at 2:06 am

oops Jojo, I misplaced the reply to this comment..It’s ABOVE lol!

Monica January 30, 2010 at 12:20 am

Heart in Spanish we have two exclamations signs ! and the other one with the dot on top, same with question marks…I think that’s why Catherine wrote Hola like that :)

Regards

Monica

Santosh Kalwar January 30, 2010 at 2:50 am

Heart,

Everybody is going crazy with “i” and Apples new technology…really funny…iPhone, iPad, iTouch, iTunes, iTable, iSofa, iPhoto, iDesk, iWife and iHusband…

Funny… ;)

God bless you all !

Heart January 30, 2010 at 3:56 pm

i i i @ Monica, Santos & Catherine! As Santos twittered iHappy & iLove :))

Alexandra January 30, 2010 at 12:13 pm

Thank you dear Annie, you angel!

katie February 1, 2010 at 12:04 am

agree.
creating is like a mirror ..
funny.

sido66 February 1, 2010 at 12:47 pm
marie-christine February 1, 2010 at 1:20 pm

I agree Annie
Xx

Haneen February 1, 2010 at 9:15 pm

mmmmm
maybe!!!!!

Haneen February 1, 2010 at 9:00 pm

ya but it’s a challenge in the same time

Haneen February 1, 2010 at 9:06 pm

being clever it kind of being crazy!!!!!!!!!!

marie-christine February 1, 2010 at 9:33 pm

most of them have their mind on the $. Sad!

Santosh Kalwar February 1, 2010 at 9:58 pm

Annie,

Thank you !

Not a gloomy day… ;)

God blesses you !

THELMA February 2, 2010 at 8:13 am

Swannie, I think from what I remember of my school painting lessons, black gives the ..shadows and the third dimension! ;-]
Now after your ‘lesson’ – we always call them so- you will have to use your … wisdom!! To try to not being ‘absent minded’ or .. star gazing; Because we have to live and survive in this ‘black and white’ World.
LOVE YOU,
Mamma Thelma xxx

Satora February 2, 2010 at 1:41 pm

Dear Swannie,

this is a woodcut from 1956

http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW408.jpg

With loving kindness,

Satoraki

Theresa Goubran-Keshta February 3, 2010 at 3:13 am

Hi Satoraki’
Just wanted to say that I love the woodcut of the swans. It is so clever and beautiful! thank you for sharing.
Love, Theresa

katie February 4, 2010 at 5:38 am

so true ….
<3

Alexandra February 5, 2010 at 9:10 am

I wont bother myself too much with this, I did it in past enough, and was only me suffering. Faith or not, when he called I was under shower, couldnt reply…He might think I avoid him, after that he left a short message( I already thought if he did not I never talk to him…so one chance he has still)…I let chance to shape itself without struggling too much. Sometimes we might be careful of what we desire, might become true…And to be so different as we dreamt.
Thanks for reply
Alexandra
with
Love

Den Rod February 6, 2010 at 1:54 am

Oh, no problem, but did you enjoy A V A T A R …

katie February 6, 2010 at 10:20 am

Den, she is too young.
this is screening for the aged ones :o)
giggle….

contes February 6, 2010 at 1:12 pm

I am going to be off air going to the movies ;)

Gaurry February 7, 2010 at 6:07 pm

Very nice movie, the scenery is so beautiful and poemtic !

katie February 7, 2010 at 11:09 pm

I need to try this …
the sun …
how much has it come up again and again this week, hidden even in the lemon :o)
light & darkness …

THELMA February 8, 2010 at 4:25 pm

I am with you Swannie, in the … course and in the laboratory! Take care.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Monica February 9, 2010 at 9:51 pm

I hope you did GREAT in your exams dear Annie, think about the manifestation of your dreams when you do this as this was the quest for your Sword!!!!

Love

Monica

THELMA February 9, 2010 at 5:29 pm

Mamma is celebrating with you Swannie, for Paul’s birthday. May God bless his beautiful soul.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

Monica February 10, 2010 at 6:25 pm

I am with you Annie, happy birthday to Paul may he be blessed with a life full of light and joy!!!

Love

Monica

Jojo February 10, 2010 at 4:22 am

Yes, Annie, that is a great idea … the quest of the rose

Love, Jojo.

aditya February 10, 2010 at 11:38 am

that sounds so much more appealing that quest of the sword. suppose u win tquest of teh sword, then what do u do, even keepig it in a safe place where no one can either harm themselves or others with it, is a concern, and worse still suppose i am no swordsman ( which 99.99% of present generation fits ), then i end up with another ‘work’ to learn to use the sword. by contrast, if u happen to win the quest of the rose, u can quickly gift it to your beloved.

love
aditya

Gabriela Abalo February 10, 2010 at 6:12 pm

Dear Annie, I think it’s their way to get some attention and run away from taking responsibility. People that complain a lot are usually negative and they tend to suck the energy of others. I try to respond to them with positive observations, with special emphasis on their blessings – some take it positive, while others hate me for not supporting their drama.
Complaining is something that we all do, which is ok as long as it doesn’t control us.

loveNlight
Gabi

Monica February 10, 2010 at 6:18 pm

I’m sad to hear this dear Annie, as your soul withers like a flower petal when you don’t give joy to your self.
I pray you will find the right path soon and have much joy in your life.

Love

Monica

Jojo February 11, 2010 at 3:52 pm

The important thing for me is the purpose, the meaning of me going on to live such a quest. And surely I would keep the sword in a special place for me, as I would keep the rose too, as a symbol … always open to Life if it asks me to give it away or transmit it. But as I read you, you would ultimately give it to a beloved one. You know, for me, the object is a symbol which has a meaning that is worth millions, that I would cherish and offer to the one that needs for the moment, and I speak for myself, love … me :-)

Love, Jojo.

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