Dialogue with Paulo Coelho “How much I’d lost, simply cause of being afraid of losing it?” The deeper cause of losing what we ‘d like to have, is not the fear of loosing it, as this fear is based on the personal goal we have. If our goal is aligned with our social interest, we have no any fear as we have not to loose anything. If we have the goal of offering to the other people we are succed all the time. “Boredom is not the world, but the way we see the world!” Boredom is the attitude we choose to have when we don’t want to do aynthing, when we are discouraged of trying for our goals. We can abandom boredom at once, if we align our interest from our self to the other people and think what are the benefits of our efforts for them. “We assume (falsely) that who we feel now is how we fill in the future.” Well, there is no anything wrong in assuming that, if we have good and constructive feelings. We choose our feelings so we can plan how we shall feel in the future. “No one day is like another, each tomorrow has its special miracle, its magic moment in which old universes are destroyed and new stars created.” This is right, but not magic. Heraclitus, the ancient Greek philosopher stated that “everything changes”, meaning that nothing is stable in life and that the most sure stable event is change! This procedure happens in universes not as magic or miracle, but as a physic changing. If we see it as magic, we turn our focus from the real world and start to live in a magic one, which is not true. This is a misunderstanding of life that leads to a wrong way of living. “It is not a sin to be happy” Sure, it’s not a sin, but is very shellfish to be interested in our personal happiness, not caring for the happiness of other people too. If other people are not happy, the situation influences our happiness. So, we have to try for the happiness of others, as for ours. “Be original!” We are “original people” only when we are useful. Otherwise are imitating all the other people who try to be “happy” and “winner”! “I recovered my immense will to live when I realised that the meaning of my life was the one I had chosen for it.” There is always a connection between the meaning I give to my life with the will I have to live. The more social is the meaning the stronger is the feeling. The more personal is the meaning the weaker is the feeling. The more concentrating in me the more depression I produce for me. The choice is mine all the time. “People are capable at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.” I don’t think so because many times people dream of doing things that are above and beyond their capabilities, as they are limited (although we don’t know our limits, but we do know that we are not God). But is more than sure, that people are capable at any time in their lives of doing what they ought to do as an obligation in society. “If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.” I wonder how we can love someone without have being already prepared set them free or better if we have not already set them free. Love and freedom come together. We cannot love someone and have them jailed at the same time. “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide where or not to accept our destiny.” What to mention first in this text. I will try to mention everything is useful for your thought. First, life is not a “being” to set challenges. We face the life events as challenges or not. Second, we call “challenge” any event to which we are opposite to, we like to win upon it, and we intend to dominate it. Third, life events do not test us for anything. They just demand an attitude we must have to relate to. Forth, courage and willingness are human skills that are necessary to deal with the difficulties in life. Fifth, in life the issue is not to decide where or not to accept our destiny, as the idea of “destiny” is a fake one. If is obligatory we cannot change it. If is not then it is not a “destiny”. So there is nothing to think or to decide about it. If we call “destiny” what we have to do in the future, then it is of our decision to choose. Sixth, “just a week” ??? Who can set time table for such things? I leave the other comments for you! “The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.” The only “saved” dreams are the dreams that are connected with our offer to other people. Otherwise are limited existing and “dust In the wind”. “Life is like a door; if it is written “pull”, please don’t push.” If it is not written “pull” or anything else, what we have to do ? “Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.” If personal legend is just a gift for the ego, love will separate man from it BY SURE! Love separates “ego” from us and connects it to the others! “Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs – but move on.” What if it is heart which give power to our legs? What if legs are not undependable from our heart? “Moving on” is not a matter of covering a distance but of having the courage to face the difficulties of life. Legs have nothing to do with it. “Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is. Love simply is.” Love is not simply “is”. Love is the air we breathe. Love is the oxygen. Love is a way of being. Love is a choice. Love is the only solution to our problems. Love is the way to our happiness and contribution to society. Love is the natural way of living. Love is giving our life a true meaning. Love is a destination, a vision, the perfect goal in life. We may never catch it. But we have to intend to it. “Love sometimes separates people so that they can realize how much they mean to each other.” On no! That is totally wrong. Love never separates people. The chasing of Personal Myth, does, the personal dreams do, the ego does, the belief that universe conspires does! Love never does it. “Learn which bridges to cross and which bridges you must destroy forever.” They say that we have to destroy the bridges behind us, if we want to go forward. But if we decide to get back, even being the bridges are destroyed we will use the wreckage or swimming among the sharks, to do it. This is not the existence of the bridges that make us to go forward by our goals. “Cry if you need to, it’s good to cry out all your tears, because only then you will be able to smile again.” Well, what a kind of method to feel good, to behave good, to be good to others! You have to suffer first and THEN ONLY you will able to feel better afterwards. So, you have to pain first, to failure first, to be tired first, to be unhappy first, to be desperate first, to be depressed first, so you will be able to …. Again! What a thought. I regret to say that is pure nonsense. “Beyond the Alchemist” TOTALLY FREE for a limited time! Down load it from: bit.ly/10utUxO My gift to you for the “25 Years Anniversary” of Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist” “Beyond any Manuscript” amzn.to/14aR2Vh Check it out !!! Share to your friends. Panagiotis Regoukos, Dialogue with Paulo Coelho
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