I was never one to dwell on the past; I think that the present is the result of all that we have lived, and seeing how we act at this very moment suffices for us to understand our blessings and correct our curses.
But now that my life is being turned upside down by journalist-biographer Fernando Morais, I have also decided to look at some notes on my apprenticeship with J., my friend and master in the Regnus Agnus Mundi (RAM) tradition. Most of these notes were written between 1982 and 1986. Many years ago I published some of these dialogues in this column, and although the reaction from the readers was excellent, I felt it was enough. Nevertheless, on re-reading some dust-covered notebooks (I no longer take notes or keep diaries), I discovered some very special things. In the next four columns I shall transcribe those that strike me as most interesting.
One afternoon, sitting in a café in Copacabana after a week of long spiritual exercises that resulted in nothing, I asked: “I often feel that I am ignored by God, although I know that He is here by my side. Why is it so hard to establish a dialogue with the Divine?”
“On one hand we know that it is important to seek God. On the other hand, life distances us from Him – because we feel ignored by the Divine, or else because we are busy with our daily life. This makes us feel very guilty: either we feel that we are renouncing life too much because of God, or else we feel that we are renouncing God too much because of life. This apparent double law is a fantasy: God is in life, and life is in God. If we manage to penetrate the sacred harmony of our daily existence, we shall always be on the right road, because our daily tasks are also our divine tasks.”
“But what kind of exercise can I practice that will make me really believe what you are telling me?”
“Relax. When we start our spiritual journey, we want so very hard to speak to God – and we end up not hearing what He has to tell us. That is why it is always advisable to relax a little. It is not easy: we have the natural tendency always to do the right thing, and we feel that we are going to improve our spirit is we work at it non-stop.”
“Are you saying that I ought to be passive and not try to improve myself?”
“That depends on how you see your work. We may feel that all that life can offer us tomorrow is to repeat what we did yesterday and today. But if we pay attention we can see that no day is like another. Each and every morning brings a hidden blessing, a blessing that is only good for that particular day, for it cannot be kept or re-used. If we don’t take advantage of this miracle today, it will be lost.”
“But isn’t there some sure way of establishing this dialogue with the Divine, like meditation, for instance? Or endeavoring to make myself better every day?”
“Your question reveals a man committed to an idea, and if that question can always be kept present, everything will fit together. The ideal conditions that you are looking for don’t exist. We shall never be able to get rid of certain defects. The trick lies in knowing that despite all your flaws you have a reason for being here, and you have to honor that reason.
“Try to go beyond the limits that you are used to. For ten minutes a day, be that person you have always wanted to be. If the problem is shyness, stimulate conversation. If the problem is guilt, feel approved. If you think that the world ignores you, try consciously to attract everyone’s looks. You will experience the occasional difficult situation, but it’s worth it. If for ten minutes a day you can manage to be what you dreamed, you are already making great progress.”
I decided to provoke him by quoting a Buddhist scripture on the six difficulties of living in a house: the work involved in building it, more work still to pay for it, the work of always having to repair it, the risk of having it confiscated by the government, the house constantly full of visitors and undesirable guests, and the house being used as a hiding place for condemnable activities.
According to the same Buddhist text, there are six advantages of living under a bridge: you can easily be found, the river shows us that life is a passage, we are rid of the feeling of covetousness, we need no fences, someone new is always passing by to have a chat, and we don’t have to pay rent.
I ended by saying that it was a beautiful philosophy, but that at least in my country, when we see people living under bridges and viaducts, we know for sure that this text is wrong.
J. answered: “The text is beautiful, but in our context it is certainly wrong. However, that should not serve to feed our sense of guilt. We feel guilty for all that is authentic in ourselves – our salary, our opinions, our experiences, our hidden desires, the way we speak – we even feel guilty for our parents and our brothers.
“And what is the result? Paralysis. We grow ashamed of doing anything different from what the others are expecting. We do not expose our ideas, we don’t ask for help. We justify this by saying: ‘Jesus suffered, and suffering is necessary’. Jesus experienced many situations of suffering, but he never advocated staying still in those circumstances. Cowardice cannot be concealed with this type of excuse, otherwise the entire world fails to move ahead. That is why, if you see someone under a viaduct, you go to help them, because they are part of your world.”
“And how can that be changed?”
“Have faith. Believe that it is possible, and all the reality around you will begin to change.”
“Nobody can perform that task all alone. What I see is that most people don’t have enough faith.”
“Sometimes we criticize lack of faith in others. We aren’t capable of understanding the circumstances in which this faith has been lost, nor do we try to alleviate our brother’s misery – and this causes revolt and incredulity in the divine power.
“Humanist Robert Owen traveled all over England talking of God. In the 19th century it was common to use child labor in heavy work, and one afternoon Owen stopped at a coal mine where an undernourished twelve-year-old boy was lugging a heavy sack of bricks. ‘I am here to help you talk to God’, said Owen. ‘Thanks very much, but I don’t know him. He must work in another mine’, answered the boy. How can you expect a boy in those conditions to be able to believe in God?”
“Let me return the question. How could that be made possible?”
“Besides faith, have patience. Understand that you are not alone when you want Divine Justice to make itself manifest on this Earth. In the Middle Ages the Gothic cathedrals were built by several generations. This prolonged effort helped the participants to organize their thoughts, to give thanks and to dream. Today that Romanticism is ended, and yet the desire to build remains in our hearts, it’s just a question of being open to meet the right people.”
(ends in the next edition)
I am looking forward to the next part of this entry.I am particularly impressed by this paragraph”
“Try to go beyond the limits that you are used to. For ten minutes a day, be that person you have always wanted to be. If the problem is shyness, stimulate conversation. If the problem is guilt, feel approved. If you think that the world ignores you, try consciously to attract everyone’s looks. You will experience the occasional difficult situation, but it’s worth it. If for ten minutes a day you can manage to be what you dreamed, you are already making great progress.”
After reading you books i had an unconsious impression that this talk about faith and achieving one’s destiny is something ou just write in books.glad to see on your blog that you pursue them so seriously.
I am always searching for God, and I always think to myself, If only I could just speak to Him one time, dream of having a dialogue with Him once, anything at all that connects me to Him. Maybe it’s me, maybe I am not faithful enough to have the Divine one speak to me…Now I realise that I should just relax. I am too busy searching for God that I don’t even see Him in everyday life. In the flowers that He coloured, the stars and planets that He put into orbit. I mean if the God that created all the animals, and trees and universe created me, then I am special. I was created with a soul. I was created in His image. The sooner I can have faith in that belief, the sooner I will know God in all His Glory. As quoted in the Bible in the book of John 8.32
‘The truth will set you free’.
Pray for me that I can believe this truth, so that I can be set free of my anguish and live the life that I deserve.
Below are some quotes from the Bible that I found relevant to this blog.
Luke 17.21
The Kingdom of God is within you.
John 10.34
You are gods.
1 Corinthians 3.16
You are God’s temple, and God’s spirit lives within you!
I hope these can inspire you and give you faith so that you can know God, trust God, and accept His blessings.
Hello, & have a nice day…or night!
May be,looking for the Devine-each past day,present day and may be -the future-I try each day to found the miracle of each second of my life.Some of the special days in my life:when I have the time to dedicate to the teenagers who are deff&mute.Can you imagine a “song”played by them?Today it was a song about Jesus,our Lord.I’v learned how to “sing”about very deep feelings without anysound.Deeply inside I felt a very sweet vibration,a special feeling-words can’t describe it.I felt my self more close to Lord than many times when I am going to church.All of us,we felt our relation with our Lord.Without Any desire,any unhappyness…just peace and silence.Perhaps this is a momment when the angels are touching our lifes.Without any effort or any intention.May be, Lord is just a wave,as I am,or as the LIGHT it is.All of us,we are special waves of Devine’s Love,special waves in a special rainbow…The rest is not important!Questions?We will get the answers when we will be “ready”to get them.Many times and for many of us,our “radars”are bloked-out of work…and…The Master/DEVINE seems to be-very often -more than bussy!Plus,I think HE has a very deep sens of humor-letting us to tray so many different things,in HIS special garden:the Earth.We have hust to enjoy each day,each seccond of our life.Even the children-not all of them know how to “play”…We,the adults-are much more uncapable to “play”life or to learn in LIFE’s school…At list,we try to do the best.A paint,will be not a paint without shadows…We can’t remember too many days of our life,but we can remember momments of it.Thouse momments are significant-even they are nice or…I’m gratefull for each second -it’s a Devine presance…Your life is a special presance for so many,many people allover the world.Are you happy with this circumstances?I suppose you are!You have to be!
Please get my best wishes of peace and happyness.Yours sincerely,Tina
Dialogues with the Master – Looking at the past
I keep remembering from a previous WOL the issue of changing with time and people who do not change… where the soul do get old not in the age but how one act. This WOL also touched my interests and I feel that I want to think loud this time. But, I think that I miss an idea that I need to understand first before writing therefore, I opened the comments page and I found no comments perhaps I will be the first to comment… there is a need that urge me to do so. May be that I want to hear my voice? May be it is this lovely light rain that makes you smell the tenderness of earth, smell mixed with beautiful mud? Or may be it is the bless of love that I live? May be….
Yes… I agree with You Paulo “the present is the result of our past”. Sometimes, I feel that people can imagine their coming life if they focus for 5 minutes, if they can read behind their decisions.
In my weakness, I do feel that my God or Allah –as I love to say- ignored me. And I believe that am a good person and I always need Allah to guide me and to bless me. In Islam, they teach us that we must keep Allah in our hearts and soul and pray for him in good days in order to be released in bad days.
This paragraph actually describes one aspect of Islam. Reading this in WOL relief me because it assure me that there is people live in very distant spot do see value in such believes.“On one hand we know that it is important to seek God. On the other hand, life distances us from Him – because we feel ignored by the Divine, or else because we are busy with our daily life. This makes us feel very guilty: either we feel that we are renouncing life too much because of God, or else we feel that we are renouncing God too much because of life. This apparent double law is a fantasy: God is in life, and life is in God. If we manage to penetrate the sacred harmony of our daily existence, we shall always be on the right road, because our daily tasks are also our divine tasks.”
This issue will make me to remember always that “Each and every morning brings a hidden blessing, a blessing that is only good for that particular day, for it cannot be kept or re-used. If we don’t take advantage of this miracle today, it will be lost.” This message I believe, can help me in gaining further strengths when I feel life is tough on me and not giving me what am seeking. The things that I think that will make me feel that “I do live now, this is life”.
We need faith and we need patience. In difficulties, we need to remember these two words and to make them a way of living, before doing so we need to practice them in our daily life.
But one thing Paulo romanticism it did not end and will never end, this is what I believe in. Right people do always exist but we need to be good enough to be able to detect them and to find them.
Love you Paulo for this relieving WOL it rearranged my thoughts and made just keep adoring my beloved more and more.
You are the ocean of wisdom.
Suha
hello paulo,
”to be the person that i have always wanted to be” i have been gruelling over this for a long time.. i know that i can do much better than i already am and i have the potential but somewhere along the line i stopped believing in it………..well i have decided to be that person for an hour everyday… i believe i can do that and faith is all i need but i have to keep reminding myself that and believing it to. i guess this goes for everyone.
will be waiting to read the continuing column.
This paragraph is shockingly TRUE!!
“We do not expose our ideas, we don’t ask for help. We justify this by saying: ‘Jesus suffered, and suffering is necessary’. Jesus experienced many situations of suffering, but he never advocated staying still in those circumstances. Cowardice cannot be concealed with this type of excuse, otherwise the entire world fails to move ahead. That is why, if you see someone under a viaduct, you go to help them, because they are part of your world.”
Reflection of self!!
I think i am adapted to suffering instead of trying to make a difference… My cowardice make me feel that it is easy to accept and be happy in what i have. did i go wrong in understanding my master’s voice? i interpretted all these calls to lead a happy life is a state of mind… even in the miseries u can be happy if u determined to be!! silent acceptation of cowardice???
Instead of saying aloud what i feel, or do what i want to do we keep quiet!! an act of being humble???it is repeating throughout life.. and at last i am defeated even if i refuse to accept……
When a woman is terribly and cruelly treated by her husband she is sufferring that in silence with a hope someday he will change his mind and behave lovingly!!
When a girl child is send to darkness and domestic works she is accepting her plight!!! because she is born as a girl to suffer ever!!!
( only if i cud practice the words!!!)
Thank u paulo again…
„Well it sees itself only with the heart, is the bridge important invisible the odds eyes”
Antoine de saint Exupery “The Small Prince”
I warn, I am not the good from English.
I also sought God and Holy Virgin Maryi I… did not find.
When came in my life the time of the sadness, despairs and the despair, I began to feel the internal calm and the delicate {sensitive} smile, because I found this, what I sought in the commonplaceness… the man is so gazing intently into its own life that they will not notice, that in this life is God. He does not turn over to himself the matter that properly with God he can talk to all.
About sufferings, and loves… to complain, to complain…, but also to thank, to ask, and even together with God to think…, what to make in a given situation, to permit, so that God control {run} You… then also the decision, which is undertaken by the man. Do you believe, to give back to him the life in His hand? I remember, how {as} I spoke once with the young mother 4 the years old girl which taught to pray. I not know, why… but I said her „give her telephone, let talk… the child better will recognize God across experiments, plays and conversations {talk} with him”
I have hopes that well I made speaking this I… not know, the from where such advice {committee} - the spontaneity of the love for God?
Returning…. I found God in myself and to the nature.
I cannot this describe, but I think that in the recovery helps the solitude, when we are individualists for ourselves {alone} of ourselves… the concentration, and simultaneously the looseness of the tension of the everyday (present) man.
You accept yourself you… accept God. (I hated God once I… had a reason which as if made difficult lives I… hated myself too {for} this…, because also I turned round from God…, but when I understood… that it is, what one gave to me in the life, causes that I began more to value the reality, I began otherwise to think…).
God is a love which does not detain…
God is there, where the freedom is entertained {guest} by inward.
God with the hope, with the sense of the life?
I greet.
monita / Poland
First off, thanks Paulo for your comments on the previous posting site. I guess you’re not a bastard!
Hee hee! 
You know I love you and was just joking, I’m sure. 
And we know you’re a busy man, doing all that ‘living stuff’ that you do, and so we don’t expect you to write often. Just posting your words of wisdom every two weeks is more than enough for us. But, having said that, of course we’d still love to hear from you more.
I really liked this latest passage, and will no doubt have much to say about it over the next couple of weeks, but, I have to collect my thoughts first.
Just wanted to comment, first to the person who posted on the previous area asking how to have faith when it is lost. (sorry, don’t have her name in front of me)
When I read that, I thought about my own life and everytime I lose the faith (which is frequently!), I just pray about it and watch as the miracles unfold. When I’m lonely, people call. When I feel helpless, people ask for my help. When I don’t believe in God anymore at all, something happens in which I suddenly need that faith to fall back on…like a death, or an illness, and the faith just appears, ready to catch me when I fall.
“Pray unceasingly,” it says in the bible. And, it always seems to work for me.
Also, wanted to thank the person who spoke about finding a church that she loves. That inspired me so much! There is one church that I’ve been meaning to check out…the Unitarian Universalist church….which I know is probably the closest one to resemble my faith. (If we had a Hindu temple here, I’d go there, but we don’t).The members of this church hold the same political, spiritual and humanitarian views as I do, and so I’m thinking of going.
I have to admit that a few months back I was being given signs to attend there, but have been ignoring the signs!
(Bad Warrior!) I ran into a woman at the grocery store that I knew and she told me she was going to that church and how I would fit right in and I agreed I’d go that sunday, as I really liked her and had been waiting for someone to invite me. I ended up getting sick and couldn’t go.
The following week, I ran into her again at the same store…I hadn’t seen her since we took college courses together (about ten years before this!) She said, ‘You didn’t go!! Go this week!!” I said, ‘This week for SURE!’ Something happened that kept me from it again!
The following week, my husband saw her at the school he works at. He hadn’ t seen her in years, either, and she stopped him and said, ‘You and Debbie should really go to our church!’ Again, something happened and we didn’t end up going. I then found a way to talk myself out of believing that we were meant to go…..Sundays are my only days to paint uninterrupted, and I have a big show coming up and need lots of paintings for it. That’s my latest excuse.
I just might have to go this Sunday. I’ll keep you all posted.
Thanks again to everyone who has posted encouraging comments, and of course to you, Paulo. Will talk soon!
-Deb
Who is basking in today’s blessing of hearing from Paulo. 
I had a dream in the beginning of 2003. My Dutch boyfriend had shortly before ended our relationship, I was back in the Netherlands sleeping by a a friend, I had no work -with other words the ground under my feet was trembling. I dreamt I went into a corridor, someone was with me, we opened a door and I looked into a church full of people to the left, to the right was the altar. The person next to me closed the door and said it was not for me. In front of us there was a very big door. I went in and saw a new door and knew something important was behind it. Then a thought hit me it might be the door to my unconscious and I got very scared imagining darkness. At the same moment the first door slammed shut behind me with a echoing sound. I could not go back. Standing there between the doors and terribly frightened I heard a deep voice asking me “Josephine, what are you afraid of?” The door in front of me opened just a little bit and I saw a yellowwhite light as strong as the sunshine. Then I woke up.
Cowardice do paralyze, but having just a little bit of faith in that light, gives courage.
For the rest I would like to tip that there is a fan-club where we can write to each other:
http://groups.msn.com/OfficialFanClub-PauloCoelho/general.msnw
Thanks for taking your time to read Paulo!
Josephine
I don’t believe that …but it’s true. You have restart to write. Today while I was washing plats, fork, spoons…I thinked I would start to give me 10 minuts everyday just to learn who I am!
When I have finished to clean the Kitchen, I have opened my computer and I have readed your new comment.
Wonderful what you are saying; writing. You have a discussion with yourself and your past.
I try fantastic your words because you say what lots people would say or see.
After I have readed your dialogues with the master,I have thinked that I belive in which I would believe and I feel to be very fortunate when I have my battles because I learn/obtain different answer (dark/light).
I understand it’s very important to have a teacher mine.
When you have a teacher:(mother/father/grandmother/grandfather/friend/sir/madam) you have a guide. But it’s important to know what really we have need from this dialogue.
God is a guide without face that we can not touch, we can just believe!
We could feel everythings and he ask us to live every second, minut, hour, mounth, year here.
In this century we have a big expediency, we could know everything and we could decid to us.
Sometimes we missed that.
Thank you that you have belived in yourself so you have started to talk for us.
Loved the blog, it was soul food! “I often feel that I am ignored by God, although I know that He is here by my side. Why is it so hard to establish a dialogue with the Divine?” This quote has got me wondering if God is by my side, been waiting for his whispers for long, not that i’ve entirely given up. And that brings me to ponder on this thought:God is the most sought in the world, but is it the spiritual connection we are looking for?or the feeling of recognition that we belong to a certain sect of religion?
Waiting for the next edition….
Have a good day…won’t you!
hello paulo,
you have touched as usual on a multitude of subjects worthy of discussion here and i don’t know where to start with this. so maybe i will try and take the simple path and see where it leads me.
having read the other people’s (11 so far) thought’s and despite differences in language and religion and nationality, i feel we are each one of us at one in our understanding (and confusion!).
in your book the alchemist, you spoke of this universal langauge of life, well equally i suspect there is a universal understanding of what ‘God’ is and, paradoxically, a universal confusion as how best to communicate with Him, so much so that we (well i do anyway!) runaround sometimes like headless chickens worrying how best to find God!
a well known story is told about the missionary in some remote part teaching a local native, and says ” if you don’t behave in a certain way, now that you’ve been converted, you will go to Hell”
The Native replies “Tell me, if I hadn’t heard of your God, and I behaved how I normally behave, would I go to Hell?”
The missionary replied ” Of course not” to which the Native responded with increduility, “Well why on earth did you convert me?!!!!”
i believe we are all born with an innate sense of the Divine, be we Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jews or whatever. there is more often than not, a great divide between religion and spirituality.
quoting from your great book the alchemist (which by the way i have read many many times and yet still get something different from what seems initially such a ’simple’ book!) one of its core messages is to never stop listening to your heart,
well i believe that is all that is necessary to find God, what ever each of us conceives God to be.
it is so simple yet being human, we somehow cannot accept that something so great as God, can be found so simply
i will finish with an old saying i once heard, which i suppose summarises what faith should really be, (i suppose)
let go and let God.
thank you once agin Paulo for your inspirational writing, writing which is ‘from the heart’ and because it is so, reaches out universally…
peter
GOD IS IN LIFE, AND LIFE IS IN GOD.
While i was absorbed deeply by reading today’s one of the most wisest issues of WOL, from my point of view, i though that i for sure feel God’s presence in each step of my destiny, especially looking back, as the present always remains mysterious and new to discover. Each present moment is always stepping into new and unknown to reveal the personal path.
And from the bottom of my heart i thank You, Paulo, for these deepest and very important sensations that this text shares with us. Perhaps, the theme which is most important and thrilling to us through the whole life - what are we here for and our relationship with God. I know, though, this text is about much and much more, and a lot more to think about for me too yet.
Then, i am also very touched to feel emotions and inner worlds of all of You, who open the souls to each other in our common search of light and oursleves… all and each of You who writes here.
And today i have been also faced with the words i have written down long ago for myself and they proved to be true in my own life and they seemed to me close to the today’s WOL issue :
EACH OF US HAS COMMON DEEDS WITH GOD AND OPENING OURSELVES FOR HIS INFLUENCE WE REALIZE OUR MAIN DESTINATION. THE UNIVERSE, IN ITS PART THAT TOUCHES US, CREATES OUR LIFE - BETTER OR WORSE- PROPORTIONALLY TO HOW FULLY EACH OF US FOLLOWS GOD’S GUIDANCE
and those words below especially give strength, and yes, i have experienced it myself more than once and this is the only road of moving to the light, perhaps…
WE MAY SAY DEFINITELY: WHEN CREATOR IS SATISFIED WITH YOU, HE STARTS TO REVEAL HIS SPECIAL INTEREST IN YOU. HE TAKES CARE YOUR HEART BREAKS, AS THE LIGHT OF WISDOM MAY REACH ONLY THROUGH THE HEART’S CRACK. FOR THE SAKE OF SUCH AN EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE, HONOURED WITH THIS HIGHEST BLESSING, THE CREATOR HIMSELF RAISES THE HAMMER TO BREAK THE HEART AND SETTLE WITHIN IT.
And knowing and experiencing this, the heart fills with immense love and strength and then, the genuine soaring of the spirit is given as you start to realize - LIFE IS LOVE, LOVE IS GOD, AND WE ARE DIVINE TOO no matter what happens on our paths each day.
Nothing is accidental, but all, including our personal paths are the magic puzzle piece of the huge masterpiece called “universe”.
with endless love to all of You and warmest gratitude to You, Paulo,
Dasha
First of all before commenting anything about your post, I would like to say that I am a huge fan of your books! “The Alchemist” had changed my life!
I had learned to follow my dream, even though it was impossible to happen, now after two years went it did happen out of the blue, I realize that two factors, “faith” and “patience” are the most crucial elements of an emotional success of the heart!
2 years back I had met someone online and instantly knew that this was the person I want to be with for the rest of my life. But the only problem was for us to meet. Many times in these two years I would lose it and not think it to be possible in any way for us to meet. It was during that when I read your book “The Alchemist” and I felt somehow that my dream too would surely come true!
After my graduation, I got a job in the country the guy was in, and had met him finally! After two years of strict patience and faith that he still loved me.
He was so much in love with me that he left his job and came to the city I was in and now we live together!
I owe you a big thanks for enlighting my life. Your books always have some kind of teachings in them and the best thing about it is that they are in the simplest language!
I always believe that if we have self-belief and know what we want, then nothing is impossible in life. I am a strong believer in GOD, and in more than a few occasions I have felt him. But I don’t go around telling people that I saw GOD or I heard him. Because not everyone thinks it can happen. That’s when I learned that it’s not important what others think, it’s more important what I believe in. And it hardly matters if anybody else believes in GOD or not. Our actions need to reflect out own thoughts, not thoughts of the society or your friends. It’s same as saying that there’s nothing as right or wrong!
Who is having unquestionable and unshakable faith? A child or an adult??
We keep our faith in divine almighty when we think, Oh! this is an impossible task! Only God can help us.. If there is anything that we think we are capable of doing, we don’t care to seek help from god! we think Yah, i can do it well… No more thanks to the power behind that!!
But how do a child have faith in God??
i remember an incident.. My sister’s son was having fever. he was 3 years then. His parents gave him medicine and took him to sleep. but he got down from his bed and went to the door. there was a photo of mother Mary pasted on the door. he knelt down there and prayed, mother! i am having fever.. cure me fast… i want to play tomorrow!! so sincere and innocent parayer!! he was sure god will take care of him..
love ur Lord and have faith in him beyond all reasons…
See the miracles in ur daily doings!!
when i see the little girl in the next door smiles at me and says bye while i am going to office, i feel an extreeme happiness and silently thank God!! when we are grown up we will not care to stop and say good Day to our neighbour….
have a nice day to u alll…..
with lots of love………..
[quote comment="351"]First off, thanks Paulo for your comments on the previous posting site. I guess you’re not a bastard!
Hee hee! 
You know I love you and was just joking, I’m sure. 
And we know you’re a busy man, doing all that ‘living stuff’ that you do, and so we don’t expect you to write often. Just posting your words of wisdom every two weeks is more than enough for us. But, having said that, of course we’d still love to hear from you more.
I really liked this latest passage, and will no doubt have much to say about it over the next couple of weeks, but, I have to collect my thoughts first.
Just wanted to comment, first to the person who posted on the previous area asking how to have faith when it is lost. (sorry, don’t have her name in front of me)
When I read that, I thought about my own life and everytime I lose the faith (which is frequently!), I just pray about it and watch as the miracles unfold. When I’m lonely, people call. When I feel helpless, people ask for my help. When I don’t believe in God anymore at all, something happens in which I suddenly need that faith to fall back on…like a death, or an illness, and the faith just appears, ready to catch me when I fall.
“Pray unceasingly,” it says in the bible. And, it always seems to work for me.
Also, wanted to thank the person who spoke about finding a church that she loves. That inspired me so much! There is one church that I’ve been meaning to check out…the Unitarian Universalist church….which I know is probably the closest one to resemble my faith. (If we had a Hindu temple here, I’d go there, but we don’t).The members of this church hold the same political, spiritual and humanitarian views as I do, and so I’m thinking of going.
I have to admit that a few months back I was being given signs to attend there, but have been ignoring the signs!
(Bad Warrior!) I ran into a woman at the grocery store that I knew and she told me she was going to that church and how I would fit right in and I agreed I’d go that sunday, as I really liked her and had been waiting for someone to invite me. I ended up getting sick and couldn’t go.
The following week, I ran into her again at the same store…I hadn’t seen her since we took college courses together (about ten years before this!) She said, ‘You didn’t go!! Go this week!!” I said, ‘This week for SURE!’ Something happened that kept me from it again!
The following week, my husband saw her at the school he works at. He hadn’ t seen her in years, either, and she stopped him and said, ‘You and Debbie should really go to our church!’ Again, something happened and we didn’t end up going. I then found a way to talk myself out of believing that we were meant to go…..Sundays are my only days to paint uninterrupted, and I have a big show coming up and need lots of paintings for it. That’s my latest excuse.
I just might have to go this Sunday. I’ll keep you all posted.
Thanks again to everyone who has posted encouraging comments, and of course to you, Paulo. Will talk soon!
-Deb
Who is basking in today’s blessing of hearing from Paulo. ;)[/quote]
Maybe this isn´t the right church for you…. but you should at least give it try - in order to be able to decide whether it is or not.
Have you ever heard of Paramahansa Yogananda and his Organisation SELF REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP
Hi Paulo,
All these i have been thinking of thanking you for words which brought hope, faith, belief, courage,…………….goes on.
I wish to share some of my experiences and thoughts with you.
With all my 25 years of experiences in life, I feel that giving birth to child has only reasons
One is Selfishness where parents want some one to take care of them in their old ages, some one in their family to lead the property or whatever….
Second is Ignorance. As everyone marries and give birth to the child, they want to do it for the sake of society…..
Apart from these two reasons, I don’t feel any other reason behind it. Of course I don’t have any comments on the marriage since it is related biologically.
The reason why I am stressing about this topic is, I couldn’t find anything in this world to make my child safe, happy and satisfied till his/her death. I find only people with greed, lust, desire for money, unsatisfied life – always being in past or in future, religion, disease, everything………
To simply conclude I feel birth is to suffer.
It’s totally my experience about life paulo…i am very much interested in knowing your perspective on this paulo.
regards,
Gopi
Nice Entry (as usual!)
there’s a verse that captures it all for me,and whenevr i start having that “feeling” i remember it…
“And when My servants ask you concerning Me,then (answer them) I am indeed near..I respond to the invocations of the supplicant when he calls on Me(without any mediator/intercessor). So let them obey Me and believe in Me,so that they may be led aright.” [chapter 2,verse 186,Quran].
there are lots of uthas like it in tha quran and i thnk y’all shud defntly check it out..i’ve read lots of books but none makes me feel as close to God as the quran.
“If we manage to penetrate the sacred harmony of our daily existence, we shall always be on the right road, because our daily tasks are also our divine tasks.” well i totally agree with this and ths is exactly wht islam gives me…tha chance to get closer to God thru my evryday stuff..from the important to the trivial and mundane! it’s so exhiliratin!!
thank you Debbie for your comments. I have been told time and time again to pray or get some insgihts from my own, that all the answers lie within me and that it is all going to be ok. I have been to several churches, movements and gurus not to find what i was looking for… then couple of years back I found a spiritual mvt called Brahma Kumaris. all the teachings I recieved there made sense to me: in essence that we are all souls looking for peace because we are originaly being of peace and light, I have been told that we have different lives that we lived and that we should all aspire to become angels. i have learned that GOD is the supreme being and that he is a guide, a teacher, a mother, a father and a friend; that we can have all types of relationships with in. i have also been taught that we should make a clear distinction between the body and the soul, so as not to get entangle with matter… well it felt good to hear all that that and experience peace through mediation and a strong community. however, after some time, I moved away from that as well because i could not separate what i perceive myself to be from what I am really. I went back to my old habits and got paralysed, like the person in the previous comments related( paralysed by the fear of being in the wrong, paralysed by fear of failing, paralysed by what others saw in me or wanted me to become) and I simply put back my old clothes and went on living life as a mother, a wife, a sister a daughter and so on. I think that somewhere along, I lost faith. I lost faith in the divine because I believe I can no longer feel, I lost faith because I am not too gald about what I see in the mirror: just like it says in the paragraph: I got separated from GOD because i did not want to “renounce life”. but when i really stop and observe my internal state, i realize that the life that i refuse to renounce is not bringing me any solace either…… funny huh?!! That’s why i enjoyed the dialog that the author had with his master where he suggest being relax in order to hear GOD and see his hands in everyday’s actions. I have thus decided to experiment with that idea for a while… we’ll see what good come out of that. by the way, how do I get a master??????( just kidding… or maybe not!)
a seeker.
I’m new to this although I am a great fan of paulo’s. I agree that cowardice is what stops us from being ourselves. We are afraid to defy society and challenge what is accepted by it.
It is much easier to write and agree than to actually carry out what you believe in.
I think God manifests himself in every living and non living thing. God is everywhere.He surrounds us.
Ten minutes a day is a great way of practicing to be who you are because it gives us a chance to know ourselves and to remeber who we are. I will try this too.
The small amazing coincidences of life to me are reminders that God is there, with me, with you, always. We just don’t think we are worthy. So we give them no importance.
Just yesterday, two coworkers and I, were discussing the book A Course in Miracles. One who had studied it years ago, me who has just started to read it, and the other who never heard of it before. The questions that came up where very similar to this Warrior of the Light newsletter. So, I couldn’t help but be amazed in the small simple act of sitting down to my computer and reading my e-mails, to have this subject come full circle. To me it’s like God letting me know, he heard. We are not alone. Keep listening and asking, and our answers will be there, maybe in some of the strangest circumstances or places. But they are there.
Hi Paulo,
My contribution towards the person I want to be today: For the next ten minutes I will write this posting without guilt. But, first let me say that I’m sorry that I apologize so much. Hee hee!
I love this idea of ten minute increments, as it makes the task less daunting.
As usual, I have a personal story to share, though, in regards to attempting to change, which causes me to pause when desires to change surface. It brings to mind that old saying, ‘be careful of what you ask for because you may get it.’
About ten years ago, I read about a meditation technique in which you picture a ball of fire or energy, imbued with the trait you wish to posess, coming towards you, encompassing you and filling you with this desired trait.
I felt I was too fearful and needed more courage, so I tried this technique, imagining the ball to be filled with courage.
As it enveloped me, suddenly, every fear I could imagine flooded my mind at lightening speed. One right after another, after another. When I was through, I was totally taken aback by the experience and was more fearful than when I started! Ha!
I was like…”What the f**k happened?!” (Pardon my language!)
The next morning, I opened up my daily meditation book and was surprised to see the synchronistic passage explaining how the author suggests to take a piece of paper and to write down all of your fears, to face them, in order to get beyond them and to obtain courage.
Well, that explained that, I figured, but, I still felt extremely uneasy. I had this foreboding feeling as if something was coming to get me.
That day, I was visiting my parents, and mentioned that I hadn’t had time to go on my daily morning walk and was planning on going that evening.
My mother, the intuitive one that she is, informed me that I shouldn’t go walking alone at night by myself, especially because my country road doesn’t have houses along it where I walk. She said, ‘Someone could come along and pick you up and kill you and noone would know!’
I laughed at her, but, of course, kept that thought running around in my head all day.
That evening I went for my walk and sure enough, this car slows down. There was a scruffy looking man driving. He pulled up beside me and said, ‘ Do you want a ride?”
I looked around, saw no cars in sight, felt the fear well up inside of me, but, also was in total shock. My mother was right! I should have not gone for this walk. I think I was more in shock, and outraged at the situation because I looked at this guy, scrunched up my face in anger and said, ‘NOOO!’ I continued walking and he was slowly driving along next to me, staring at me, ready to talk to me again or God knows what….and I got really really scary, but tried to hide it by being pissed off, looked at him and screamed, ‘GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!’
I had seen a car off in the distance coming up the road, so, I also began waving my hands like a lunatic, hoping that the people in the other car would see me flailing my arms in anger at this man. So they would know that something was up.
The guy glanced and also saw the car coming up the road, and took off. I ran home through the woods, in fear of the guy coming back, and got my handgun, put it on my belt, and went out there to finish the walk that I started, with my gun showing so that noone would f**k with me. I know! What a fearful lunatic I was!!! I laugh thinking about how, what if this guy was just being nice, thinking that I needed a ride, and I went crazy on him, yelling and flailing and telling him to get the hell out of here.
And I normally don’t like guns, but my husband had bought this for me, and I finally was fearful enough to carry it.
Anyhow, so, after this, I felt very unsettled and insecure, thinking….’gosh, I don’t even feel safe on my own road anymore! This is not good!’
The following week, I went out to get the mail across the street from my house, and my mailbox was all smashed up. The kids around here often play mailbox baseball, driving around smashing them up. This was the first time that ours had ever gotten hit, and I started feeling even more insecure, and violated, feeling as if that ‘negative entity’ which was the only way I could put it, was coming closer to me.
The following week, I brought my kids to school, and went to work for a few hours. Upon arriving home, I started to feel scared again. When I put the key in the door’s lock, my heart was beating very rapidly, I was feeling as if something was going to get me even more.
I heard a voice in my head saying to be careful.
I went into the house and felt this presence there. An evil presence. But, otherwise, nothing seemed amiss.
I tried to remain calm and went to my bedroom to put some cash in my jewelry case and when I got there, I noticed it was open, and the money I had been saving for college books was gone, and my dresser drawers were partly opened and I could see that they were rummaged through.
I heard the voice in my head tell me to ‘GET OUT NOW!’ I ran out of the house and went to a friend’s house and had her husband come back with me to make sure noone was in the house.
Noone was there and we saw that there were finger prints on the window sill in the kitchen where the window was open.
The fear intensified.
Now I no longer felt safe in my own home.
I honestly felt that something was after me and that it was going to kill me. I began telling people about it in case something did happen, but everyone thought I was nuts.
The following week, I was across the street waiting with my boys for the schoolbus to pick them up. We heard a cat and saw it under a bush on the other side of the electric fence that we standing next to.
I saw the bus coming from off in the distance, with a car in front of it.
The kids had been trying to coax the cat out so they could pet it. I suddenly saw in my mind’s eye that this was a bad idea. A tremendous fear engulfed me. Everything then happened in slow motion. I saw that the cat was going to be killed by the car.
The car approached, I turned to the kids and yelled, ‘Noooooo’ in that slow motion voice that you see in movies!
The cat darted out just as the car was passing us. The car was two feet away from where we were standing. I saw the front left tire and the cat meet at the perfect, predestined angle, or so it felt, just like I saw in my mind’s eye.
The cat screeched.
The car slammed on its brake, but was too late.
The bus driver slammed on the brakes.
Immediately after the cat was hit, I saw this blur of energy shoot out from the cat and straight up into the farthest reaches of the sky, and I felt as if part of me was attached and went along with it. I felt like my soul left my body and travelled with it, for a split second.
The cat then ran back under the bush, on the other side of the electric fence. The car’s driver was upset. The kids were upset. The bus driver had to complete his rounds, so, I told them all to just go along, that I would take care of the situation.
Of course, I couldn’t get to the cat because of the fence, so, I called around to veteranian’s offices and the animal control office for help. Noone would help me. I finally called the constable and he came and helped me by pulling the fence post up and retrieving the cat, which sadly was dead by this time and we buried the cat in my yard.
The strangest part of it all is that when that thing shot out from the cat, I immediately felt all of the fear that had been building stronger inside of me, dissipate completely.
It was as if the cat took on this negative energy of my fear, and sacrificed itself for me.
I stood there after it happened, feeling like if this cat hadn’t come along, that it would have been me under that tire.
OK, my ten minutes are up! Back to the guilt!
My final words are to emphasize that yes, sometimes you will experience the occasional difficulty, and is it worth it? Why, yes! Look at how brave and unfearful I’ve become! I’m only down to THREE friggen page of fears now!! Ha!
And a hundred and one pages of guilt. 
I will be silent for a while now. So, in the interim, Paulo, may all your days be blessed with breeze from flap of angels’ wings. May love and peace vibrate to you, from harp (of angels’) strings.
Sincerely,
-Deb
Who has never claimed to be a poet! Hee hee! 
Hello to all, especially to you Paulo, the one that managed to touch my heart and soul.
I believe every day of our lives should be a combination of patience, fight and faith.
Patience for the right moment, when the world is ready.
Fight with yourself,fight to break out of the limits you and others have put on you. Fight against the feelings of shame and fear of misunderstanding.
Faith to God, faith to The World, faith in our capabilities and qualities.
I am just sixteen, trying to build the right confidence and qualities and be a Warrior. One that manages to listen to his heart and to do what it tells him to.
It took me almost half an hour to write those few sentences, but this is what I wish to share with you now. It is just that feelings are so mixed, that words are having a really hard time to express them.
I try to believe and find my path.
Really happy to have had the opportunity to write this (and read all the previos comments),
Deyan from Bulgaria.
OK, so I lied, I’m back.
As I was posting my posting, I noticed more postings that got posted as I was writing MY posting.
Did you get all that?
I saw that Monica addressed me and wanted to say that I AM a devotee of Yogananda, a Kriyaban, and a member of Self Realization Fellowship as well. Unfortunately, there are no branches of the Fellowship near me. I like Yogananda because he states that you can follow his teachings no matter what religion, if any, you belong to.
I’m hoping that the Unitarian church will be a place for me, and I suspect it is, because they accept people of all faiths to join in their worship. One week they might have a speaker talking about Native American beliefs, the next week they might have a Jewish faith talk, and the next a Catholic priest. They are open to everyone, and it sure sounds like my kind of place.
Thanks for the tip, fellow Kriyaban, I presume?!!
Hi Paulo and fellow readers,
Good stuff Paulo, well done.
I’d like to know your views on fate and purpose.
Do we reside in a book that’s already written as characters?
You must be familiar with Jostein Gaarder’s work.
Also with the sci-fi movie ‘The Matrix’.
If you find some time please email me with your thoughts:
alex_hatzisavas@yahoo.com
Best wishes all,
Alex
I just want to take this chance to thank you for all the good work you have done in writing all your books. For any man to write whether it be a book or a song that can touch millions of people and make them think is a gift. Your books always make people think as much as any book I have read by modern authors. People lack meaning to their lives and you bring back meaning by the best method possible, stories and anologies in my mind simplify what is difficult to understand. This is the true showing of a master that can simplify what is difficult to comprehend, What use is a master or a teacher if he can not get his thoughts across. God Bless take care Paulo
Leon
[quote comment="348"]hello paulo,
”to be the person that i have always wanted to be” i have been gruelling over this for a long time.. i know that i can do much better than i already am and i have the potential but somewhere along the line i stopped believing in it………..well i have decided to be that person for an hour everyday… i believe i can do that and faith is all i need but i have to keep reminding myself that and believing it to. i guess this goes for everyone.
will be waiting to read the continuing column.[/quote]
comments like yours have the same effect like Paulo Sir.
thanks, keep writing!
Well, God ALWAYS hears and talking to us.
We are the ones who don’t notice it most of the times. We are simply not tuned in. (Low energy on ur part I think is the reason.)
For example, I am reading this Blog the first time in my life. I started to read the site few days ago from issue No 1 upwards.
The FIRST time today that I read the newest edition and listen to this!
I read ONLY 1 comment out of the 26 of this issue and that ONE comment GAVE ME AN ANSWER to my MOST important question.
So how about THAT for being heard and being answered?
Thank you both Paul and the Blogger.
I read this in issue No 31 in the Englis edition. Anybody knows the English translation for it? It disturbs me that I don’t understand what I am reading.
“Nós morremos enquanto Tu permaneces.
A eternidade é Tua.
E, na eternidade, seremos lembrados
não como pontos insignificantes deste mundo real
mas como folhas sadias que, em um certo momento,
floresceram nos ramos da Árvore da Vida.
Estas folhas caem da árvore, mas não caem no esquecimento,
Porque Tu sempre Te lembrarás delas”.
Jackye,
Being a wife, mother, daughter, etc, as you are, I also understand where you are coming from. It’s hard to go against the tide of others’ opinions and desires when you are in a position that tends to put the needs of others first. I struggle with this constantly. It sounds like, perhaps you just need to bring some balance back into your life. (?)
It’s hard to stand up for yourself and your own wishes, but through Paulo’s books, I’ve been able to see that I do deserve, and have given myself permission, to live my own life…at least a tiny fraction of it, daily. (Thanks Paulo!).
I think the first step is realizing that you’re unhappy. The second is to figure out what would make you happy. The third, and hardest, is to devote your life to doing that without fear. Supportive people help, too!
I’ll be your support if you need it!
ommmm@adelphia.net or stop on by the fan site listed above in Josephine’s posting and we can all chat there.
Note to Deyan from Bulgaria: I liked what you said in your posting about having the right combination of each of those qualities. A very wise 16 year old, indeed.
Have a great day, everyone!
-Deb
Who doesn’t mean to give unasked for advice, which most people hate! She just wants the world to be happy. Love to all. 
have faith ppl and may ALLAH bless us all.
Dear Paulo,
Thank you for the lovely article, brings more hope and faith back into life. I felt so much better, yes, we need to be patient to understand the miracle of life.
There is so much to learn from life’s experiences, sometimes we miss most of the important things for the less important reasons.
Deepal
Im not looking for God.I know he is everywhere and thats enough for me.All I m lokking for is to make my life better so I can live it fully.Financially and spiritually.Dont get me wrong, i m just trying to balance the two world, cause I dont want to be too much in God`s religion cause its not right to look for God only when you want to be rich, soI m trying to get it myself.And I dont want to be a busy buisnessman who doesnt see anything…Its difficult to combine the both worlds but its worth to try…Foe this paragraph I can say that all the writing of Paulo is helping me alot, like putting the words in my mind.Everything I think he puts words on that and helps you see more…And I wanna see more….Everything
I’m from kuwait which lie near Iraq as u know … i want to tell you .. really you are fantastic writer and you have a lot of fans here … my love
ali
Whao Paulo!
You speak of Quran, and not only that you speak in the divine language of soul. God bless you!
This apparent double law is a fantasy: God is in life, and life is in God. If we manage to penetrate the sacred harmony of our daily existence, we shall always be on the right road, because our daily tasks are also our divine tasks.”
It is not duality, but keeping balance ‘Adl’ in the seesaw of opposites.
I daily see people busy in their work and repeating and reciting holy verses of Quran. It is the need of hour. We are miserable, poor and helpless and must seek the mercy and guidance from the Divine. So that we may spare ourselves and others of the atrocities we commit.
Keep writing and keep guiding…we are waiting for your new book?
Unfortunately there are cases that we t h i n k that God is responding one way, because that’s what we need to perceive that very instant. We drag ourselves into a kind of illusion that can be compared only to an irrational neurosis.
You’re my mentor in life my beloved wandering writer.
Everyone has their own concept about God! a true believer sees God’s hand in everything when an etheist likes to give logical explanations…
As the story told by Peter(Ireland), it is better not to know about any religion or not to believe in any God with a fear that if we are not doing these dieties or worships God will be displeased.
But it is wonderfull feeling to believe in God!
Someone said once… I belive in God even if it is proved at last, there is no God, because my faith will not do any harm… but gives a beautifull life.. Instead, if i am not believing and if there is actually a Gord so i will be a loser in my lifetime and even after death when i see him!!!”
What can can we do is be the best human being!! for ur family, society , country and there by for the world!!
[quote comment="371"]I just want to take this chance to thank you for all the good work you have done in writing all your books. For any man to write whether it be a book or a song that can touch millions of people and make them think is a gift. Your books always make people think as much as any book I have read by modern authors. People lack meaning to their lives and you bring back meaning by the best method possible, stories and anologies in my mind simplify what is difficult to understand. This is the true showing of a master that can simplify what is difficult to comprehend, What use is a master or a teacher if he can not get his thoughts across. God Bless take care Paulo
Leon Brown[/quote]
Greetings, Last week I was initiated into a ancient leaning tradition and this morning I am looking at the power of reciting and meditating upon the Beautiful Names of Allah. The article says: ‘this can be a very powerful and productive practice… may be used to promote the conscious emergence and continual awareness of these Divine Qualities in one’s own life as a means of connecting to, and being a vehicle of, the Divine Presence.
Include in the quotes is the following…. from a very wise man:
Do not say anything else, just repeat that word over and over, innumerable times. Finally it will lose all meaning, but take on an entirely new significance. God will open the doors and you will find yourself using that simple word to say everything that you wanted to say.
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, from Warrior of the Light, by Paulo Coelho..
Trust you have Aus and NZ on the ’soon to be visited’ list…put the list on the fridge door and recite daily…’soon to be visited’
walk gently love Christine
I agree with every nuance,each intonation both stated as well as subtly suggested.
But I do believe God and I have a relationship that moves more like the tide of times.At a glance the conversations thrive and throb and at others it is as we talk to each other in the silence of our own soliloquy.A song that I sang years ago had these poignant words:
My life is in your hands
my heart is in your keeping.
When life goes by I think of these words and wonder at the whole experience of expression that actually lies submerged within us.God becomes a private and personal perception,He grows in the absolute and thus transcends the sublime,that is why I feel that there is so much to perceive and feel and emote,but it is so difficult and so intangible in the strength of our own expression.In many ways I feel that Paulo Coelho opens doors like the gateway to heaven,because he describes what lies latent and dormant within us.He brings alive what we feel but cannot say.How gentle and how evocative is this relationship that watches and waits as we unfold!
love uma
Hi Gopi !
Shraddha & saburi as the old man said, have unending pateince and unshakable faith, look closely they are opposed to each other and both togather r required. U see in society, in the world the reflections of yourself, so if u see the world as hopelessly cruel, look within. And by the way human life is an oppertunity a coveted one at that to grow divine, divinity does not grow in the kingdom of god, it grows in this world which u can liken to the mud which gives rise to lotus, life. And by the way, when u could survive for 25 years ( and there will be many more) what makes u think that some other child will not. Other than death there are no gurantees in life, so be it. When someone else was generous enough to take the trouble of giving u birth, I feel its your duty to repay by taking teh trouble yourself.
regards
aditya
Well this is the first time i am writing a blog.
Paulo has ended the dialogue on very interesting turn.
like the authir in the dialogue i too feel ignored by God.
I try so hard to communicate with him but in no use.
Well i hope Paulo gives us something really good this time.
Otherwise as usual I would beconfused by knowing something ought to be done.but not knowing what to do.
waiting for next edition hope it comes sooon.
[quote comment="375"]Jackye,
Being a wife, mother, daughter, etc, as you are, I also understand where you are coming from. It’s hard to go against the tide of others’ opinions and desires when you are in a position that tends to put the needs of others first. I struggle with this constantly. It sounds like, perhaps you just need to bring some balance back into your life. (?)
It’s hard to stand up for yourself and your own wishes, but through Paulo’s books, I’ve been able to see that I do deserve, and have given myself permission, to live my own life…at least a tiny fraction of it, daily. (Thanks Paulo!).
I think the first step is realizing that you’re unhappy. The second is to figure out what would make you happy. The third, and hardest, is to devote your life to doing that without fear. Supportive people help, too!
I’ll be your support if you need it!
ommmm@adelphia.net or stop on by the fan site listed above in Josephine’s posting and we can all chat there.
Note to Deyan from Bulgaria: I liked what you said in your posting about having the right combination of each of those qualities. A very wise 16 year old, indeed.
Have a great day, everyone!
-Deb
Who doesn’t mean to give unasked for advice, which most people hate! She just wants the world to be happy. Love to all. :)[/quote]
Unasked for advise - u don’t want to give, good but thenwhat have all the prophets down the ages went on giving, unasked for advise, wasn’t it. do what u must, if possible without hurting other people, and don’t worry too much about their sentiments, they are fickle, but the be prepared, u may get crucifuied, hazards of the trade of trying to be good u see.
Good point, Jackye! I suppose even though ‘good deeds never go unpunished’, it doesn’t mean we should stop doing them…I’ll remember that the next time I regret something I’ve said, which will probably be in …oh, a few more minutes.
Thanks for giving me hope.
-Deb
It is supper!
You can see,allover the world people have such different and such ammasing soles!
Once more,I realised that is true:fishes are not living in pure water and the pure,white lotus have its roots,deeply in the mud…
It’s upto each of us to take from this ammasing world the beauty or the ugly,the LIGHT or the darkness!
Thank you all so much, for all!!Love,Tina
Hi Paulo..
I like your post very much. touching me deeply when i read, “The present is the result of all that we have lived. And seeing how we act at this moment suffices for us to understand our blessings and correct our curses”.
I am feeling that right now. I have made many mistakes in my past when i was single. I never care to think that i’ve already break Allah’s rules. And now, i have an illnes that make me probably can’t have a children that i want very much. I have to take many test and spend a lot of money to fixed my reproduction part of my body.
first i think that Allah so mean to me. I always compared my situation with any people who did like what i did or worse in their past but Allah still give them a child. But finally i realized my thought has destroy me slowly. i could’t moved on. Could’t see clearly about anything. why i have to blame Allah? Why i can’t see how it could be happen to me?
My thought become so clear when i read your post paulo. then i think maybe i have to deal with it in order to pay for what i did. Allah have testing my patience before give what i want. Beside a possibility my capability to have a child, Allah already gave me so much. A good life, a good husband who can understand me, a house to live when there’s many people still live on the street. A job and have a salary to fulfill my needs when many people out there can’t eat.
Until now, i still try to change my mind not look only at one thing when many things have happen to me. And you so right, we have to greatful our blessings.
Thank you Paulo, to help making my mind and my feeling become strong.
Keep on thinking that Allah never leave us, if we ask for help with sincerily heart, Allah will help us.
Always waiting for next post paulo, i really need that right now..
Best regard,
Lidya
Lidya,
I just opened up a book of Paulo’s that I received yesterday entitled “Life”. I read one of the quotes which said, ‘God’s decisions are always mysterious but they are always in our favour.’ I decided to read today’s blog postings, and saw yours and felt like I had read that quote for a reason. I felt it related to your story, and needed to share it, believing that Paulo would want you to hear it, too.
Keep looking at your blessings as you are doing, and remain hopeful, but always know that whatever happens will work out for the best for you.
I had a boss in a similar situation as yours who couldn’t conceive a child. I had a vision of her carrying her baby to work with her to show us and told her not to worry… that it would happen. All the doctors said she could never conceive, but a year later, she became pregnant, and now has THREE children! So, keep the faith, stop beating yourself up about your past, and know that miracles do happen.
Also, if you aren’t meant to have a biological child, it might end up being the one thing that leads you to your most important work, since it seems that our greatest weaknesses, losses, fears, end up becoming our greatest strengths, which lead to fulfilling the most important aspects of our missions here on Earth.
So, either way, know you are blessed and that good things are coming!
Lots of love, and unasked for advice,
-Deb
Who is prepared for crucifixion.
To Gopi - India,
I couldn’t help feeling touched with what you wrote as I’m still very positive
about life and have an optimistic feeling inside of my own life.
Here in western Europe young women are faced with a lot of possibilities and
choices, to give birth to a child is not anymore a seflwritten social rule
and many choose to not have children! but instead to work and enrich their own souls.
It might seem even more egoisitic from the point of view that without children
the human race have no future, on the other hand there are thousands of
children born in the world who do not get enough to survive their first years,
and many places on earth are faced with a serious problem of overpopulation,
like (some parts?) in your own country India.
Unlike Aditya I don’t agree with that it should be your “duty” to give birth to
a child, I’m too emancipated/individualistic for that kind of opinion, the choice
is yours and yours alone.
What I DO think is that I hope you by time will find the loving persons
who will give you your hope back for humanity. These people excist, the ones
who without asking for anything in return will show you love and friendship.
Yours friendly,
Josephine
Deb,
Take a pause ! don’t write on the fly, and please don’t be too egar for crucifixation. what u wr