EN ESPANOL CLICAR AQUI: Puercoespines
EM PORTUGUES CLICAR AQUI: Os Porcos-Espinhos
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During the Ice Age many animals died because of the cold. Seeing this situation, the porcupines decided to group together, so they wrapped up well and protected one another.
But they hurt one another with their thorns, and so then they decided to stay apart from one another.
They started to freeze to death again.
So they had to make a choice: either they vanished from the face of the earth or they accepted their neighbor’s thorns.
They wisely decided to stay together again. They learned to live with the small wounds that a very close relationship could cause, because the most important thing was the warmth given by the other.
And in the end they survived.
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it’s a nice message to learn from; it shows us that even though we are different and have our faults and even enemies, it all comes a time when we need each other to survive.
ヤマアラシ
氷河期に多くの動物が寒さで絶滅した。このような状況を見て、ヤマアラシは、互いを暖めあう為に集団生活をする事に決めたのだった。
しかし、ヤマアラシは自らのとげで互いを傷つけてしまうので、彼らは集団生活をやめ離れて暮らす事にした。
彼らは再び寒さの為、凍死し始めた。
そこで、彼らは選択をしなければならなかった：彼らは地球上から消え去るのか、あるいは隣人のとげを受け入れるのか。
賢明にもヤマアラシ達は再び一緒に生活をすることに決めた。
最も重要なことはそこで得られる暖かさだったので、非常に密接な関係が引き起こす傷と共に一緒に暮らすことを学んだ。
そして彼らは生き延びたのだった。
its lovely…mutuality is the key for survival…
very nice storie, if we also live together like them there is no need any religien & caste,
We Need Religion!
We need religion all the time. In fact it is “religion” which gives us the sense of unity and solidarity. It is religion which commands us to love and establish peace everywhere. That which does not strongly recommend truth, love, peace, unity and solidarity is not religion
at all!
R. Shariff
when you live life according to feelings, its very difficult to maintain relationships because feelings always change and people dont!
but when you decide to live according to commitments, things fall in place
I’m 28 and have been recently learning this- you summed it up perfectly. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :o) I’ll be sharing it as well. Take care!
We Need Feelings!
He who cannot “feel” has no right to exist. He who cannot “feel” will become threat to the society.
In fact, I strongly feel that “The porcupines and solidarity” has been illustrated just to convey the same sense of “feelings”, love and warmth among the porcupines. The porcupines first felt a threat to their very existence during the Ice Age because of the severe unbearable cold. They felt it necessary to rely on a strategy to come closer and seek the warmth from each other in order to survive. Because, necessity is the mother of invention. Later when they felt the pain of their thorns, they decided to part from each other and attempted to live apart. However, when they were finally disappointed and resolved not to risk their existence, they finally decided to unite, come closer and bear the little soft pain of their loved ones whom they love and care. Sweet is the pleasure after pain. These are all feelings again. We cannot imagine the concept of any relationship without “feelings”. One who cannot feel cannot hope to have any relationship with anybody. Feelings will always remain feelings. There is no substitute for feelings. However, people change with time and tide because of the sort the thoughts they have. Experts suggest us: ‘If you cannot change anything, just change your thoughts, new thoughts will change your feelings and those who are fortunate to think positive and think rationally will always survive and achieve peace and prosperity earlier or later.
brilliant and beautiful sir. Very touching and very true
Paulo – Everyday you draw me closer to your heart. You’re really taking care of your love affair with the readers.
This is beautiful… no, it’s perfect.
Ken – Great work. I love the snowflakes.
Thank you, Juno!
very nice.. loved it
Life is wonderful eventhough it has so many troubles like to be survial~ Sometimes I feel like just games?!
This story is so true!
Everytime you live together closely with a person you really like or even love, you have to notice sometimes that the one you love has its own thorns and that you have to deal with them. And although these thorns can make living together a hard challenge some day, you realize again and again that it’s the safety and warmth you can give each other that makes you come over all the other little or big problems and little weaknesses of charakter everybody has to deal with because they are natural.. and you realize: Although you sometimes hurt each other, there are times when you recognize that you belong to each other..
The need always makes the people to adjust and adapt to the situation and painful relationships also. We involuntarily do these things otherwise we would have not survived this far.
thank you paulo for this wonderful message. This week has been troublesome for me but when I read your article everything came clear. Thank you for all your lessons. Hope you would inspire more people as you have inspired me.
must read for couples going through a bad phase…thnx again paulo…ur words and stories always help…and u need not feel sad for not listening to ythe woman at saint patrick’s cathedral…
with love,
naveli
ALGO HERMOSO Y QUE DEJA UNA ENSEÑANZA MUY IMPORTANTE PARA LOS TIEMPOS QUE ESTAMOS VIVIENDO.SABIO
MUY OPORTUNO PARA LOS TIEMPOS QUE VIVIMOS,SABIO,
we may opt to live separated from others to ‘protect’ ourselves from being hurt but doing so would only make life more unbearable and senseless.
Bom dia Guerreiro.
Linda história
Conviver é complicado, mas se não convivemos, não vivemos, transformamo-nos em ermitões.
Que mais nos magoa são aquelea que mais amamos e vice-versa.
Há lágrimas q valem a pena.
Deus te ilumine Guerreiro
Q Maria siga na frente
Amo vc
ps- Vc pediu frases do Chico Xavier. Não sei em inglês com boa tradução, vou deixar em português mesmo ok:
“Se vc tem qualquer mágoa remanescendo da véspera, comece o dia à maneira do Sol: esquecendo a sombra e brilhando de novo” (Chico Xavier)
“Em torno de teus passos, a paisagem que te abriga será sempre em tua apreciação aquilo que pensas dela” (Chico Xavier)
“Faze cada manhã uma lista dos bens que Deus já colocou à tua disposição” (Chico Xavier- Emmanuel, no livro Alma e Coração)
“Recolhe-te e enxergarás o limite de tudo o que te cerca.
Expande-te e encontrarás o infinito de tudo o que existe”
(Chico Xavier – Emmanuel, livro Fonte Viva)
“Valoriza os amigos, respeita os adversários” (Chico Xavier)
beautiful thought behind the short story. In order to save a relationship we sometimes need to forget the faults and see the positive sides. Brilliant!!!
Ah!! very true and very beautiful!!
What if summer comes ? should they continue the warmth or move away to again survive.
if they have learnt the lesson then would never depart… because after every summer there will be a winter n after every winter there will be summer…n i think by the summer the hurts would turn into love n affection…
with love,
naveli
brought warmth to my heart….
Great story, I loved it!
just relax, sit in the middle, drink your tea :)P
I am not sure ….
is there a beautiful landscape far away in the dark? I can only see it when I twist the monitor of my laptop….
My example is the one in middle with the cup of tea. Dispite the dilemma it stays completely relaxed – must be some kind of Buddha of porcupines…
…or it simply has enough rum in its tea.
Да самые трудные и тяжелые отношения это отношения с родными и близкими людьми. Почему то мы всегда думаем что и как ответить чужим людям, а вот родным нет. И считаем что имеем на это право. Это самая большая ошибка в отношениях между близкими людьми!
Thank you, Sheela!
Peace,
Ken
This is for you from me
there is nothing more painful than being alone, so we should accept that sometimes we hurt people we love too
being alone and being lonely are two diffrent things. aloneness has its own beauty. u cam to teh world alone and alone u go. one who had no fear in his/her heart is not lonely, for such a person company of others is as beautiful as being alone.
love
Gracias Paulo¡ por compartir este bello ejemplo y donde cabe la frase: Lo que no te mata te fortalece¡¡¡
Right after I saw the video from PBS that you have posted, I read this little story (sorry, I read things in reverse order sometimes)…. Love it, and I believe the moral of the story is intended to the family level and even to a higher addressee: the world. We have to learn living in peace, with all our thorns, before we collapse and kill each other.
P.S. My favorite porcupine is the one in the middle, having coffee (or tea) and in a meditative state. It could be you, Senhor Coelho, teaching us, the other porcupines, about tolerance. :)
Paulo, any story about love which cannot be expressed??
This is simply beautiful
Que belíssima parábola, capaz de retratar na perfeição a condição humana!
Tal como o porco-espinho, o Homem não sobrevive só, mas como ninguém é perfeito, há que saber aceitar as diferenças de cada um, em virtude de podermos continuar juntos, a prosseguir caminho.
No fundo, todos temos um porco-espinho dentro de nós… todos somos “feridos” e todos “ferimos”, de vez em quando.
you have never failed to amaze me Mr. Paulo Coelho…i wish people would finally be touched ultimately if not now…sooner…with all these efforts you give by posting such inspirational and enlightening words…and I know that you find time searching for the most/best effective one you may feel.
the story of these porcupines is very practical to be always remembered for this only supports another saying:NO MAN IS AN ISLAND…for sure, with being surrounded/accompanied it wont be a perfect comfort zone anymore…but, one will recognize that we need one another..and we tend to adjust…we tend to jive with the forces of nature.
sir! sometimes you get surrounded by so much of warmth that the meaningful warmth converts to a meaningless one, and you start taking things for granted, which is solemnly bad. so how to overcome this?
full of wisdom as ever. currently going through difficulties with a family member, this has really inspired me. Thanks Paulo
thats true , they gathered to work for good , so the result arrived at a good solution.
We can overcome small wounds by a general attitude of compassion, but real Compassion is rooted in unconditional love…Unconditional love overcomes also big wounds, cos such love is always bigger than the wounds. For it is not a love expecting to be loved in return, it is love for the sake of love …what would make us, humans, at the image of the permanent, immanent and transcendent LOVE in MOTION. That’s what I call God.
The purpose of every single thing in Creation is to be an expression of that Divine Unconditional Love in motion… sometimes I wished I was a flower in a field…spreading beauty, colour, perfume, not disturbed by the fact whether I am noticed by a passer-by or crushed under his oblivious feet,
Really beautiful what you wrote dominique…. thank you for sharing.
Also I wanted to say to you…sometimes you wished you were a flower in a field…well, you are even more than that…YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!!!!
Blessings of radiant Love & Light,
Eline
thanks for sharing!!!LOL
That’s so beautiful, just beautiful. I wonder why I have tears in my eyes as I read it :-).
The little wounds do heal with time and in the end you’re stronger and wiser!
paulo ….. do you have some magic….????
everyday i face some of the problem like every person…
ya i know it’s inevitable….
but as soon as i come across any of your writing i get a answer in the hidden mgs of the story…
thanx…..teacher….
Every wound is a lesson learned, every wound has made me stronger then before and even more open minded and ready to understand the world.
ok I agree
I will accept the others in my life even they hurt me
but who will buy me the bandages?
Wow..this is something to think about..Thank you for this..:D
Thank you Ken and Katie
Solidarity 4 ever :)
xxx
this is true for every relationship to survive and beat the odds…adjustment and acceptance are the keys to successful relationships…
What I have learned today:
If you are in love with a porcupine, don’t complain when it hurts.
By the way: Porcupines can make love without hurting each other. (The biologist and teacher in me could not shut up again.)
luks u r more interested in porcupines than what he wants to convey.i wonder if u r in love with a porcupine cuz u know they make love without hurting.
:)
Cher Coelho
Vos idees m accompagnent partout et j en suis fiere !!!
Elles sont vraiment une grande richesse culturelle pour moi .
Je vous remercie pour vos histoires et vos proverbes qui nous orientent vers l amitie et la comprehension .si restreintes que soient vos idees elles se divergent en plusieurs sujets et c est comme un faisceau de lumiere qui s ouvre devant nos yeux .Les 20 secondes de lecture d aujourd hui nous apprennent
a:se comporter avec intelligence – a vivre en societe tt en gardant une petite distance entre nous -a etre solidaire pour defendre ensemble nos interets communs .et a vrai dire si nous cherchons bien entre les lignes nous pouvons trouver ds chaque coin d autres sujets a developper avec des pages et des pages .Merci beaucoup d etre avec nous chaque jour !!!
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