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How long do we keep on pounding on an open door,
creating obstacles, creating barriers where there
aren’t any… Like being shy when there’s no
need to be and thereby missing out on opportunities
that are possible and real…

Lots of love,

Vicky

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The door is … always open and yes it is .. inside.
The Microcosmos into the Macrocosmos.
As above so below.
Thank you Paul, for your beautiful paradigm.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

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When I knock on doors – or I make phonecalls – to the places where I’m supposed to be, the line is broken. If I call back a little later the attitude of the person I’m talking with is changed. It’s an impossible situation. I have spent a lot of money on getting nowhere.

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Until someone looks me into the eyes and says: “Welcome in Mari Ann”.

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“leo” is a website that provides dictionaries for german and a variety of other languages.
each winter they produce an electronic adventscalendar: each day, one can open a “little door” and finds a surprise. for 12/18, they show this story by Franz Hohler (* 1943):

The Mail Box

“I like to be a racing bicycle”, said the mail box to the garden door, “and racing through landscapes and high alpine passes.”

“You and your wishes”, said the garden door, “you do not even comply to the guidelines of the post office.”

“One can always have wishes”, said the mail box and continued to swallow bills, magazines, ads, and postcards.

Some time later, he was removed and replaced by a new one. one melted him together with old metal chairs, broken metal wires, bended screwdrivers to produce light steel; and he was sent to a factory making bicycle.
Soon, he raced through the landscapes, went over high alpine passes. he could not believe he had used to stay at one and the same location for all the time and almost suffocated from all the mail.

:o)

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Arabë dhe Cifutë __by Paulo Coelho

Arabe dhe Cifute

Nje djali, Abin-Alsar i kapi veshi nje bisede mes te atit te tij dhe nje dervishi.
“Bej kujdes me punen tende”, i tha dervishi. “Mendo se cdo te thone per ty brezat e ardhshem.”
“E cfare pastaj?”, iu pergjigj babai, “Kur te vdes une, cdo gje do te marre fund, dhe nuk do te kete me rendesi se cfare thone te tjeret.”

Abin-Alsari nuk e harroi kurre biseden. Gjate gjithe jetes ai u perpoq te beje mire, te ndihmoje te tjeret the te punoje me entuziazem. Ai u be i famshem per kujdesin e tij per te tjeret dhe kur vdiq ai la pas shume gjera te cilat permirsuan cilesine e jeteses ne qytetin e tij.
Ne gurin e varrit te tij, qene shkruar keto fjale :

“Jeta qe perfundon me vdekje, eshte nje jete e cuar dem.”

Të mbulosh diellin me dorë

Nje dishepull shkoi tek Rabbi Nachman i Bratslav-it :
-Une nuk duhet ta vazhdoj me studimin e shkrimeve te shenjta – tha ai. – Une jetoj ne nje shtepi te vogel bashke me vellezerit dhe prinderit e mi, dhe nuk i kam kurre kushtet e duhura per t’u perqendruar ne ate c’ka eshte me e rendesishme.

Nachmani drejtoi gishtin nga dielli dhe i kerkoi dishepullit te tij te vinte doren mbi fytyren e tij, qe ta fshihte ate. Dishepulli u bind.
- Dora jote eshte e vogel por prape arrin ta mbuloje shume mire fuqine, driten dhe madheshtine e diellit te madh.
Po keshtu, edhe problemet e vogla arrijne te te ndihmojne qe te justifikohesh per te te penguar perparimin pergjate udhetimit tend shpirteror.

“Ashtu sic dora jote ka fuqine per te fshehur diellin, mediokriteti ka fuqine per te fshehur driten tende te brendshme. Mos ua hidh te tjereve fajin per paaftesite e tua.„

I wanted to post here my translation in Albanian, even though it is not a correct Albanian since when we write in internet we have to replace some characters since they don’t show.
Which is for example ë with e.

Love
Olta

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How long will you keep pounding on an open door?

Such a good question for me on this day after months of feeling shut out, pushing when the sign clearly says Pull, locking myself out because my mind is full of doubt.

How long? No longer. I am the open door.

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Hi Jessica,

there is something wrong with the bible quote?
if one is alone and falls …. god is always there to help to get up …

I wish you very well for the future & for working on your dream :o)

My experience is it is worth it.
I started to work on a dream this spring. and it grows in a weird direction. not as I want to or need to (I need to get money for my own survival from this dream). but it grows. one effect of its growth is:
- I started it and felt alone & isolated. I only had a friend & paulo’s quotes on dreams that helped me.
- so far, I met so many people that I do not feel isolated anymore, and finally a came over my shyness and tendency to withdraw. I really believe that I get from “the outside” support; support of getting well, have energy, and things just develop.

good luck!
stay strong!
be open to the development in each step.
in this way, paulo is right: a door is open, but sometimes I am stubborn and want to go through that door that is still locked …. but not forever

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All the best Jessica.I hope you will find your way.

Love

Candie

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it’s a tough ole world..
but remember ..
there IS love and light
not just in prayers but in our day to day lives…

keep the faith..
and most of all… keep your faith in yourself!
remember that we all as human beings can be at odds with something in life – ourselves, others.. etc..
so just be true to yourself
and i hope this shall help see you through.
it shall make your love and light stronger ;o)

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Best of luck to you too Jessica. There is a space where I am concerned for you and also one that says that you have it all and to have faith in you and the Source for you. Do not forget, if you fall, come and I will be there and all of your friends here on the blog. Wish you courage, perseverance and most of all to continue developing awareness of the powerful soul that you are and experiencing it. With consideration and respect to your path. Love, Jojo.

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Dear Jessica,

So sorry to hear you are experience trouble in the blog or online. We are supposed to have a good time together and support each other in this community. Please don’t you ever think you are crazy. Always trust your own perceptions. I will tell you, you are not the only one who find their emotions are being messed with here, if this is what’s your problem. It is easy to misunderstand each other, not communicating in person, where we can hear each others voices and see facial/bodily expressions, for one. Also, online as everywhere else, we are together for good and for bad, sharing our light and unfortunately sometimes our dark side too. You are doing the right thing pulling away from something causing you more negative than positive energy. I would do the same. Sometimes i do time outs, other times I leave certain circumstances for good. One thing is for sure, we should never take abuse, without doing something. It is society accepting abuse, encouraging abuse, rewarding abuse, including emotional abuse… that’s crazy.

Jessica, all my love and best wishes for you and your dream too. So sorry about your hurts sweet Jessica.

Love,
heart

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Dear Jessica, take care of yourself and God bless you.
Remember being in this material World we have to maintain and keep the Balance: To have our feet on the ground and our soul on Heaven. Even Paulo Coelho, who is a Master, has his own Teacher. We need supervision and Guidance. Our centres, Chakras to be opened under austere discipline, medidation, prayer and after mastering ourselves: BODY, MIND and SOUL.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx

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Guilty! I can’t help it. Fear is stopping me to go ahead, so I’ll keep pounding for a few days till I get angry at my self and than go on. :D)))).
My nature, can’t help it. I want to but I can’t.

LOVE
OLTA

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Having read this here is what I feel and understand :

The time is certainly our ally in the understanding of our life on this earth and beings which surround us. The reason for knowing never perfectly does not remove the possibility of working to know. That’s why, is given to us the possibility to live several times the same situations. The repetition of certain things can become a rite when the spirit is got. If it’s the case, to which sends back to us this rite ? Do we consider him as heavy or reassuring ? It’s in ourselves that is the answer. So, our eyes see a door. We have at least two possibilities. Think that she’s or closed or opened.

A door is closed. Is she in front of us and we cannot enter ? Is she behind us and we cannot go out? What do we feel ? Action, reaction, slowness, which do we make ? Some will dare to push this door. Others will hesitate. Others else, will leave. The door is only the reflection of our way to consider us and to consider the outside world. It’s in the understanding of our glance, that the life offers itself as a real present. She suggests us the movement. In this way, what can seem difficult at some point, will be much better lived at the another moment. What is today what is not necessarily what will be tomorrow. If always showed us of the courage and the heart to hand our work.

If materially a door is big opened, our eyes cannot perceive it any more. So, there’s a fluidity of the movements and the spirit. However, a door can be although closed physically we know that it’s opened. The space which separates what we hear of what we listen to is symbolized by this door. Did we hear him or did listen to ?

Besides, it also exists through the door, the symbolism of the passage. It’s the meaning of “other” space or state. So, in certain churches, there’re architectural symbols revealing the passage of the ground world to the celestial world. Many cathedrals possess their ” door of the deaths ” by which passed the body of the deceased. We can also evoke the door of the harem, the door at the freemasons, the holy doors in Rome, etc. … All these doors prepare us for a state of mind allowing us to live in consciousness a particular time.

Finally, we cannot speak about door, without speaking about key. The key, it’s ourselves. The one that materially we put on our doors and that immaterial that we put in our hearts. To us to shape her and to dare.

Light & Love,

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An important lesson that I feel I still have not learned, yet. Enter with faith in your heart and know that you are welcome.

Sometimes pounding is easier than daring to learn how to fly.

Love,
Petra

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haha..
yes.. be like Santa..
take the chimney ;o)

Happy Christmas ……

May you all find mince pies and a glass of warm mulled wine to feast upon
… down the chimney, or through the door ;o) xx

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