To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love.
They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection.
They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire.
That is why the warriors risk more than others.
They tirelessly seek love – even if this means hearing, many times over, the word ‘no’, returning home defeated, feeling rejected in body and soul.
Warriors don’t allow themselves to be discouraged. Without love, living has no meaning.
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in WARRIOR OF THE LIGHT: A MANUAL
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I am in love with a person. from the day I saw her. I was happily married. But that fact that didnt matter at all. It was a strong feeling. I told her. She thought it was a joke. I too felt stupid. She said it was impossible. I thought it was impossible. We are wrong. Now it is impossible for us to lose our love. We both have icy masks but heart of fire inside. people close to us came to know about us. We get negative replies, we get discouraged, we get threatened. We get beaten.. We get rejected body, mind and soul. But for us both, “Without our love, both our lives have no meaning”…
So for you doesnt matter if you guys hurt other people…are you divorced already? Cause if it is pure love you should close a chapter to beggin another…but anyways just my humble opinion :)
Real love can have and survives every thing…You don’t even need to belief in it, it just happens
Dance like nobody is watching….
Sing like nobody is listening…..
LoVe like you have never been hurt….!
Often many of us keep creating the perfect circumstances to burn our own hearts again and again.
We keep longing, but mixed with fear and confusion, we become blind to the possibilities and the real people around us, getting feverish about one person, which we burn in our own minds as “our one true love”. The one to be ours to possess. The one to crave, so much we push it all away from us.
Luckily, life in service has expanded my vision beyond my own lacks and cravings, and brought the most wonderful being into my life, and many more possibilities are also now mine to play with.
Love is very much possible, however, often our mind is the greatest obstacle, and it’s not something you can just “think away”. You may need to go deeper into one meaningful practice, lose yourself in it for a while and gain that inner strength and fire.
This message is just comprehensible to those who have ventured before, and we are many, in all earth’s traditions. We can only hope we can stand up more and more and share more and more of this universal energy, knowledge, love, in all its different manifestations. Because it’s all love, it’s all that’s driven us from the start, including all its twisted and personal agendas, as well as the selfless and enlightened ones.
Let all who read this realize and create their higher potentials, in their unique way manifest their life’s objectives, all obstacles conquered and abandoned like burned ashes.
Great!!
I LOVE IT°°°
LOVE IS JOY!!!!
Wow!!!!
I love what you wrote!
And as you said LOVE is all around us, everywhere,everyday.
:)
this is very beautiful……you have found love in its real meaning……do you mind if I share what you wrote with my friends? i will write your name with it…
wow this has surely touched me…thanks
I agree, life witout love is like a desert , no water, no shadow, very dry
Thanks for reminding me to be a warrior of love at this difficult phase of life.Wonder how God reaches out when i need Him thus!
¿y si tal vez, aquello solo ocurriese, cuando el guerrero de la luz sabe demostrar lo que siente…y no teme entregar su vulnerabilidad al otro?, ¿cuando no teme a ser dañado?
¿es así, para una persona, que solo ve las espinas en una rosa?
I live in love, love lives in me.
Arriscar é a chave.
Esse texto e o da Agneta são bons de serem lidos juntos, pq um compelta o outro.
Lembrei q o Pe. Fabio diz q Jesus foi um grande sedutor. Concordo. Seu poder de sedução divina foi tanto que dividiu o mundo em antes e depois dele.
Querido Guerreiro, hoje, dia da Visitação de Nossa Senhora, desejo que os anjos visitem sua vida com mtas bençãos e boas notícias, que a Mãe amplie seus caminhos, que vc continue visitando nossas vidas com seu trabalho, suas palavras. Qdo leio vc sinto meu anjo batendo as asas a meu lado.
Vc aquece meu coração nos dias frios, com sua luz e seu charme. Calorão !
Deus te ilumine
Te amo Guerreiro
To the warriors of light, there is no such thing as impossible love.
Love never remains impossible…we all in love with one or another or oneself. The true warrior always in love because the power of love always give him enough strength to remain in field and to fight better. Lord Krishna has truely understood it and that what he explained to Arjuna is the essence of possibiltry of love in the greatest war between the Kurus and Pandavas. The queries made by Arjuna was fully understood and well expalined by Krishana and than the true warrior stood up for the dignity, respect and to understand the meaning of love thru war.
They don’t allow themselves to be intimidated by silence, or by rejection.
Love can be silent or vocal but rejection is never associated with love. you may love once or may be thousand times. you may be loved by none or by the whole universe, it should not make an impact over your thinking and approach towards the achieving of goals of life. A warrior can only be warrior if he would understand that love can not be intimidated or rejected….
They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire.
Always look calm but remain in fire like the coal/ fuel. you may strike once or many times but let this remains with you what is burning inside so that when lava comes it should be in the form of fountain ready to touch the sky with sound of buggle. Remember only calm people can control the fire and play with the victories of life.
That is why the warriors risk more than others.
The risk which i am taking now is the foundation of my tomorrow’s victory. i may look tired but I know when to rest and that moment has not arrived yet so lets start a new again as I am going to count agin from initial….
They tirelessly seek love – even if this means hearing, many times over, the word ‘no’, returning home defeated, feeling rejected in body and soul.
I have no problem with many NO cos that is energy/fuel for my charge and keep me awake till I reach the place where I belong to. rejections are diets of my hunger which gets greator with each rejection. The rejection give me strength to stand again and again….
Warriors don’t allow themselves to be discouraged. Without love, live has no meaning.
I am in love, i always remain in love that is why I have travelled so far just to be with you. I will find my meaning in your lap when you will hug me ,kiss me and take me to the destiny which I belong to…..
“Love me when I least deserve it because it is then when I need it the most.”
May you meet this love of your life
its wonderful to of Mr Coelo to remind me of the old forgotten wisdom that people primarily seek luv behind those cold faces… a true seeker will know this & respond always to them with a faith of they reaching their own hearts…
I am very glad, could someone reach my soul and my heart, but I think I should be very careful what my heart says and my mind otherwise I end up in the ”LOve Boot.”I don’t knw how you called that transform to another ieland maybe…just like the flowing river….hahaha!
this is perfect timing, i just asked my lover, to come see me last night, I was afraid of what he expressed to me 5 months ago, we had spontaneously met in another country, kept in touch, and he just decided to come see me in december, he flew across the world just like that, it was really wonderful, and then he went away, distance got to us, n he is purusing his dreams of being a doctor after having been an engineer and realizing it was not for him. He was supposed to come see me now, but got confused because and he doesn’t know if he can commit and wants to live his dreams and experience what he has been striving for fully without the responsibility of me as in ‘marriage’, as i was putting some pressure on him about how we could be together, n my family wasnts me to be ‘married’, we are young, and at first i was angry and hurt that he led me on, but now i understand his concerns n i want him to fly, n to experience what he thinks he needs to, as it is a complicated situation, i suddenly want to see him so badly though before he goes to med school, and i had courage enough to tell him again last night, he is in australia now, i hope he comes, n we have some magical moments again,,cause thats what matters in life, please pray that he feels my love for him in his heart, and that he comes :)
i will pray for you roshni,,, love is sometimes learning to let go when all you want is to hold on…
I like that Paulo…. I am defiantly a warrior of light as you called it…. I have been sent home packing a few times and still my fire burns for him….. I know whether it’s him or someone else I will keep that fire burning cuz it’s my soul that will not give up on finding that one truth of luvv.
Thanks Paulo, today your blog content brought me a lot of support.
My Spiritual Fight for my son was led in not-fighting, non-action, in taking silence and rejection but still loving him and waiting, and letting him know about it, with all respect for his choices.
But my internal Spiritual Fight was ongoing, and I invoked High Spirits help as I couldn’t do it on my own, and they are always happy to be in service. They did it in time, a long time in human’s categories, and a very long time for mother’s heart, teaching me about warriors’ virtues like patience and endurance.
The background was very hard – he was entanagled in miserable stuck in his life, going down to the bottom of dignity, and powerless. I was worrying every day, but kept my spiritual fight without fighting, and patiently waiting on the other end of the globe where I live.
He wrote an email this morning, after 5 months of silence, and the content indicates that Spiritual Fight is nearly finished, he is very close to come back to Life. He became awaken.
Your blog today is about that Love and Fight for Love. Thank you Paulo.
Your inspiration is working not only for me, but also for others who are coming to me, seeking hope in their life, as I’m fortunate to work in such settings.
Por favor Paulo, ore por mim.
Obrigada.
I understand the concept of God as perfect recursive concept which its very demonstration points to itself and it also points to the one who understand it.
There is something godly in your words.
Thank you Sir.
The saying; ‘It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.’ comes to mind. Some claim this was written by Shakespeare from the play Orthellow. Apparently, it is however from a poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Risking more than others, is possible when we learn to let go of the pain of separation, from loved ones (romantic lovers..amore & friendship and family agape). There is no lost anymore, because the loved one is in ones heart when he or she is present or apart.
My very best childhood friend from I was about 5 years to 10 years old, who I love dearly, was lost when my family moved to another city. I never found a friend like her again. Yesterday, after 40 years, she emailed me and wants to meet me this summer. She mentioned a few memories from back when we were little girls, and new memories came to my attention when I wrote her back. All very funny memories of the things we did together.
This is how love is, we love, we lose, then we meet again. I strongly believe in meeting again every single individual who has a place in my heart..always, including those FANTASTIC WOLs I had the pleasure of spending 3-4 days with…sigh. I miss you guys so it hurts at times..
`They know that – behind the icy mask people wear – there is a heart of fire.´
Thank you, dear Paulo, for this lesson about love.
I learned it not so long ago. To love everybody – not only your family, friends,lover, but even the nasty neighbour – is not the easy way to go. To love somebody else means to understand her/his intentions – and your own.
So this is what came to my mind then:
Love suffers long and is kind;
love does not envy;
love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
does not behave rudely, does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
thinks no evil;
does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
Love never fails.
(Corinthians 13:4-81)
I do so very much agree, though it can be so hard at times to be rejected again and again, but love loves or it isn’t love, love cannot do other than love and love and love again. There is some reason why the loved one doesn’t want or cannot respond, yet we love, because we have to, it’s what life is all about!
Es complicado esto del amor…a veces uno se acostumbra demasiado a la soledad…
this has always been my favorite passage from the book.
Thank you Paulo.
- anna
“I am going to search for l;ove i will go till the end of this Earth, i will find you! There is no impediment in my way to you, my love! Just do not give your heart to another, not yet as my jpurney may be a little longer than I planned myself!…. but I am each second in my mind and heart with you!”
So, love take “no” as an answer only when it’s gone… be aware you, who think that the one who said no, I love not, is saying the true!
xx
Sin amor, vivir no tiene sentido…hasta que uno escucha “vivo para hacerte feliz”. Allí recién comienzan los problemas, porque mi existencia le da sentido a la vida de otros. Consumar el amor también es dejarse amar y dejarse amar solamente un guerrero de la luz sabe lo que cuesta…
Thank you once again for reminding me of my position. When I read your story, I pictured a man with a cold face of stone. On the left side of his chest, I saw a heart surrounded by fire. I am standing in the distance looking straight through to his very core. I see only a black heart without even a hint of light. I remind myself that it is my position on earth to light the pathways for those who are still lost.
In my years of helping people grow and learn to love themselves I discovered a vital truth. That truth is people are not seeking to find love, they are seeking to give love. It is far more vital to feel the giving of love than to receive it.
I totally disagree. Giving Love is far easier than recieving it. We can give Love in small ways every day. But it’s in being open and feeling “worthy” of recieving Love that so many of us fail. We know we are flawed so we sabatoge “feeling loved”. Really taking in UNCONDITIONAL LOVE can heal the world.
Then answer will come when the time is right , soon or later
❤ gratitude ❤
Good One Sir.Thanks
yes! so true! but that means that warriors of light suffer more than the others!
AND?
Sharing the light does not require suffering …
yes that’s totally true
That’s why they are warriors, they must be able to suffer to give love to others.
love, like life is bitter sweet…there are no options.
risk everything? i believed that until I had children.
Now I dont know what to believe.
Practicing compassion, peace, and love is all very well and good, but what if the cost is your self respect?
How far can a person go? and if you risk dying before you get to the top of the mountain how does that feed your childs heart?
thank you! thank you so much for your posts! i’m kind of addicted to it, they are helping me a lot! and my gratitude hard to explain. i really hope my dreams come true! you are raising strength and believe in this. thank you!
” Guerreiros não se deixam desanimar.Sem amor,viver não tem sentido.”
Mesmo que chegue o desânimo,é bom lembrar desta frase;nos tras um novo impulso para seguir em frente,é verdade que viver sem amor não dar sentido mesmo,ao que fazemos,seria tudo cinza,sem graça.É muito gratificante lermos frases que nos dar um novo alento.Desejo um caminho de FIRMEZA,AMOR e PAZ a todos os guerreiros da LUZ.Paulo Coelho,que a Luz Divina esteja sempre ao seu lado.
An intelligent Warrior would know when to stop and let go. Chasing after an impossible love it could mean that it is not love but the inability to control obsession, compulsion and the ego in us that wants to win at all cost.
YES TODAY I HAVE RISKED EVERYTHING…….!!!!!
HOPING FOR BETTER RESULTS THIS TIME…:)
OR ELSE AS ALWAYS:’BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME……’:(
I just turned 29 and never been in love, I want love and I’m looking to find but with almost everyone I have come across, they all tell I shudnt look and it will come to me at the right time, when is the right time, I’m almosty 30 and shud be married or in a commited relationship.
I get depreessed sometimes when I look at most of my friends are married or getting married. I need help!!
Dear Tumi.
You seem very “desperate” right now to find what you are seeking. There are many steps in life to make before you can get what you need. Your friends are right when they tell you that you should not look and it will come to you at the right time.
The right time is when you have done your home work. Maybe you could read some great books on how to learn to love yourself. There is a good one I recommend that is written by Marianne Williamson and it is “A return to Love” – The first step to loving others is to love the Self -Good luck
..think of the person you care for and are concerned of.
think of the person you feel happy and good in the company of.
think of the person you are ready to leave your comforts for.
listen to your heart. It will leads you to your love.
Take Good Care of Yourself.
I asked God last night for a sign, an answer, I don’t understand how I still get surprised every time he answers me this fast. Thank you for being God’s tool today Mr. Coehlo. :)
i can relate to the post if i think about impossible love as my life’s goal.
Thanks a lot for encouraging me. I was feeling very alone and left out ……
love your work …. Keep writing and keep motivating …. :)
Live life with Unconditional Love. What others find impossible will be accomplished with ease by you.
Love Always,
Alex Stephen
So wisely said :)
El enemigo quiere rendirse y tener un pensamiento nuevo.Solo es tiempo lo que necesita.Pero no puede reconocerlo.Esta solo en realidad.Gracias.
*clap clap clap* :)))
Thank you. I have just written a letter to a lost love and lacked the courage to send it, that is untill I popped on to facebook and this was the first post. Also, thank you for Brida and Eleven Minutes. They have changed my life.
well,well paulo and people talk about homerun with full bases, well you just got one and at a great time, for so much is that the impossible is what the whole world discourages you to pursuit and that is the big message that is telling you that it is very possible to follow your dreams because that is what life is made of a DREAM that we all are to fullfill and that the opposition to fullfill it are the stombling blocks placed infront to detour the fullfillment of that big DREAM,the beger the blocks and task the bigest the reward of that big dream and further will get, so when you see the light at the end of the tunnel that is the destination been headed to, giving up is like dying inside for the life that will be lived when you give up is not the same as the one to be lived if you get there. great I HAVE HOPES IN MY DREAM FOR THE IS NOT SUCH AN IMPOSIBLE ONLY POSIBILITIES THROUGH LIGHT IN LIFE.
Working on a daily basics on your dreams shows you the road ahead as you go closer to that destine so do no stop step by step you will get there and remmeber always that you cannot run when you are first born you need to grow day by day and then crwol, then stand then walk then run, so do no give up not matter what it can be attained YES INDEED
The great Sufi poet Attar said “la ilaha ila ‘ishq:” There is no god but ardent love.”
doba:
thanks for the “original” writing. it is nice to see the rhythm in the words even though I do not understand this language :o)
i had found the love of my life i was holding on to him – but at that time my eye were closed so i let it slip away – now with face book i will try to get it back – he is the one that looked me up & he found me – so now my turn to win him back…..
wish me luck he lives in an other country but i will still try & try
You cannot “hold on to anyone” …. It seems to me that it was not meant to be. Do you know the expression “when you love someone, set them free” ??? that’s what I mean. If you lost him it means that one of you was not ready. Now your lesson is to let go and move on. Besides, long distance relationships just do not work…. Do not let the illusions of life take yours over…. Good luck
Thanks
but sometimes love really is impossible ! For example if you love someone and your friend loves him too you just can t try to get him …. :)
First of all if you and your friend are “fighting” for the same person it is not going anywhere. It is too confusing and someone will get hurt at the end if not the three of you…. Let go and watch things happen without forcing them or trying to control them…. That is the lesson to learn….
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