Impatient to change

by Paulo Coelho on September 7, 2011


It took almost 40 years for me to become a writer.

Before that I always dreamt of becoming a writer, but I never dared to take the necessary steps.
I met my master in Amsterdam in 1982. He had told me things back then that enabled my soul to slowly awaken.
Four years later, I embarked on my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

It was during my pilgrimage that it became increasingly apparent that I wasn’t happy and I had to do something about it – stop making excuses.
I realized that you don’t have to jump through a series of complicated hoops to achieve a goal.
You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don’t have to understand the mountain to feel that.

When I first got back from the trip it was an anti-climax. I found it hard to acclimatize to my normal life and I was impatient to change my life immediately.
But changes happen when you are ready.
It took a few months to realize that I must solely concentrate on writing a book, rather than trying to fill various roles as I had before.


The Pilgrimage
was to be my subject, my first step towards my dream.
 
 
 

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LoveM November 21, 2011 at 4:21 pm

Where are you going I asked the wind
And why are you in such a rush
With a whoosh it replied..I know not where
But I am under great pressure to get there..

Your Being takes the size and shape
Of your own realisation..
Identify strongly with your body-mind
That is your dimension..
See yourself primarily as consciousness
Become infinite space..
LoveM

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LoveM November 5, 2011 at 5:36 am

(This verse needed A Knee operation was missing a line or a leg :)
You are truly a song..
This lovely laughing lilting melody..
You are also the singer and the singing..
As well as the still presence in which the song is sung..
You are the words that flow from the mouth of the ineffable..
You are the vibrato that resonates in the heart of your being..
This beautiful touching ecstatic heart wrenching song..
That love sings to itself as everyone else..
Sing on forever.. long and strong..
You are that love song..

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LoveM November 4, 2011 at 8:59 am

You are the song..
You are also the singer and the singing..
As well as the still presence in which the song is sung..
You are the words that flow from the mouth of the ineffable..
You are the vibrato that resonates in the heart of your being..
This beautiful touching ecstatic heart wrenching song..
That love sings to itself as everyone else..
Sing on forever.. long and strong..
You are that love song..
LoveM<3

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Annie October 31, 2011 at 11:11 am

Love
with your all-encompassing view
Compassion
with your love at the heartstrings
play a song for me
and let me change
with your melody

I am an emergency patient
typical case of
craziness and impatience
to change
Don’t want to wait to change
I want to be the change

Love
with your all-encompassing view
Compassion
with your love at the heartstrings
play a song for me
and let me change
with your melody

Love and Gratitude
Annie

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LoveM October 29, 2011 at 10:30 am

Tear fear fire poem song
Love all your four letter words
Who speaks..Who Listens..
I want you to know
That you are as well off as
What you do not want..
Love it how it is
Where and whatever it is
This is your being..
Be self delighting
Then you take pleasure in all
That the self reveals..
A blessing to see
I see you in everyone
In you.. I see me..
You are Miss Fortune
Your being is a blessing
To all fortunes fools..
LoveM

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Annie October 24, 2011 at 5:18 pm

When I forget how to change
tears into laughter
poems into songs
misfortunes into blessings
turn fear into hope..

you switch on the light
the fire
of our friendship
turning
poems into songs
misfortunes into blessings
fear into hope

I will utter not one word
that might make me go astray
only one 4-letter word
that can change,
tears into laughter
poems into songs
misfortunes into blessings
fear into hope..

Thank you
Love and Gratitude
Annie

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LoveM October 24, 2011 at 6:55 am

My dear
It is so quiet
Over there
I hear the light

No need to call
Silence fill
When it is all
that still

What I pray
For you
That you stay
This true

To your
Seeing
And your
Being

Forever
Living
Altogether
Loving

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LoveM October 13, 2011 at 9:46 am

Wonderful…insightful…joyful

A single
Grecian Girl
Promising to sing
Expressing blessing amusing
Kissing caressing pleasing rising blissing
Choosing losing apologising passing crossing…MisSing
HyMn ;)

Singing and flying
How delightful to us who
Groan with gravity

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Annie October 11, 2011 at 10:15 am

Love is 2 in one
and one in 2
sounds a bit like shampoo
with conditioner :D

‘I love you’ in English
‘Se agapo’ in Greek
the only language where
‘I’ loses its meaning
and ‘you’ are first

if you notice there is not I
in the beginning,
there is only one which is you
and the love keeps me singing
and flying like a bird

Love and Gratitude
Annie

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LoveM October 11, 2011 at 7:12 am

Three words…I love you
Three concepts out of which these
Three worlds are conceived…
See that false divide
By thinking you are someone
You make another…
Just the thought of you
Makes me want to laugh anew
How can One be two
LoveM

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Annie October 10, 2011 at 12:45 am

All 3 in one, and one in 3
girls in the wedding
past, present and future in sync.

The first she’s changing clothes
she’s looking forward
to the adventure

the second she’s bring a present
a white dog in her hands
may you be blessed forever

the latter radiant and a bit older
she is you, you know,
God, my heart’s poet

Love and Gratitude
Annie

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LoveM October 9, 2011 at 6:44 pm

Oh silly me
How I want to be
The one who bears your ring
Whose poems make your heart sing
With words bringing laughter
Could I be dafter
Saying I do
I AM YOU
LoveM;)

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Marie-Christine October 8, 2011 at 11:18 am

La coquille-notre fragile eco systeme en voie d’extinction-.

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Annie September 30, 2011 at 1:32 pm

How I love to change
tears into laughter
poems into songs
misfortunes into blessings
turn fear into hope..

From this day forward
every day i shall go forward
from this moment on
every moment I go loveward..

Bells are ringing
angels are singing
“I do..love what the creators done with you”
He said
“I do..love creating the world with you”

Love and Gratitude
Annie

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LoveM September 30, 2011 at 11:28 am

Doing my grooming
Always changing… wedding bells
Forever the bride…
Our divine marriage
An unseen dancing inside
But sometimes… I do…

Ann..he’s a jolly good fellow…
I just love what the creators done with you;)
Blessings
LOLaLOT LoveM:D

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