Yes, you!! Kau sudah mulai memasuki mimpiku. Mungkin memang karena aku yang mengizinkannya atau mungkin Yang Lain yang menginginkan kau untuk memasuki mimpiku, atau mungkin hidupku.
Jika memang karena aku yang mengizinkanmu menyapa kesendirianku, mungkin karena kau mampu mengalihkan duniaku sekejap atau mungkin karena aku menginginkanmu, atau bahkan aku membutuhkanmu.
Kalaupun kau mampu mengalihkan duniaku, tentulah kau adalah seseorang yang menarik. Kau membuatku menyadari bahwa kau lebih dari ‘ada’ di hidupku. Atau jika karena aku mengingkanmu, tentu alasannya karena aku membutuhkan teman untuk menemani aku, berbagi kisah hidup, tawa, sedih atau mungkin hanya cerita tak penting. Atau bahkan jika memang aku membutuhkanmu, mungkin karena kau adalah salah satu sosok yang bertentangan dengan kepribadianku, maka kau mampu mengisi kekosongan yang ada dalam diriku dan melengkapinya.
Hingga kini, aku tak tahu apa yang terjadi pada diriku mengenaimu. Aku tak cukup mengenalmu, begitupun denganmu yang tentunya tak cukup mengenalku. Jika memang diri ini dan dirimu layak dipertemukan, tentulah kita telah siap dengan pertemuan itu, tentulah kita sudah siap untuk berbahagia dan berbagi kehidupan kita bersama, dan tentunya kitapun sudah siap untuk berduka bersama.
Ku hargai dirimu, dengan segala kelemahan dan kelebihanmu. Setidaknya, itulah yang ku ketahui kini.
THE CHICAGO OF SIBERIAN
The sun rises in obedience to a universal law. God is always close to us, whether we pray to him or not. If you don’t pray, God may be near, but you won’t fell His presence.
THE PATH OF PEACE
The art of peace is unbeatable, because no one is fighting against anyone, only themselves. If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world.
BELIEVE EVEN WHEN NO ONE ELSE BELIEVES IN YOU
We can never wound the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we can become imprisoned but our memories, and that make our lives wretched even when we have everything we need in order to be happy.
Forget who you are now and got to the place where the person you always were is waiting.
TEA LEAVES
Only children believe they’re capable of everything. They trusting and fearless, so they believe in their own power and get exactly what they want. When children grow up, they start to realize that they’re not as powerful as they thought and that they need other people in order to survive. Then the child begins to love and to hope his love will be requited; as life goes on, he develops an ever greater need to be loved in return, even if that means having to give up his power. We all end up where we are now: grown-ups doing everything we can to be accepted and loved.
NEUTRALIZING ENERGY WITHOUT MOVING A MUSCLE
Not everything in life is a long train with tickets available to all.
Spiritual growth doesn’t always arrive hand in hand with wisdom.
Any return to the past with no knowledge of the process can have dramatic and disastrous consequences.
- Paulo Coelho -
THE GOLDEN ROSE
Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures, but a love with no name and no explanation, like a river that can’t explain why it follows a particular course but simply flows onward. A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return; it is simply there. I will never be yours, and you will never be mine.
FEAR OF FEAR
You’re wrong when you say that other people have recovered from the trauma; they’ve simply hidden it away in a place they never go to. The power of regeneration is in your hands.
Things aren’t always they way we expect them to be.
Is it possible to deviate from the path God has made? Yes, but it’s always a mistake.
Is it possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you’ll never learn anything.
Is it possible to know something without ever having experienced it? Yes, but it will never truly part of you.
THE CITY
I’m not a foreigner, because we are all traveling, we are all full of the same questions, the same tiredness, the same fears, the same selfishness, and the same generosity. I’m not a foreigner, because when I asked, I received. When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.
THE SOUL OF TURKEY
No one who truly loves someone would destroy them or themselves.
We will meet again in the future, when your life and work will be dedicated to those who are so sorely misunderstood today.
- Paulo Coelho -
THE ALEPH
Either 2 people can spend their whole life living together or they can meet only once and say goodbye forever simply because they didn’t pass through the physical point that triggers an outpouring of the thing that brought them together in this world. So they part without ever quite understanding why it was they met. However, if God so wishes, those who once knew love will find each other again.
DREAMERS CAN NEVER BE TAMED
Anyone who knows God can’t describe Him. Anyone who can describe God doesn’t know Him.
LIKE TEARS IN THE RAIN
We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that’s of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences.
I haven’t been married for more than twenty years to the same person, because neither she nor I have remained the same. That’s why our relationship is more alive than ever. I don’t expect her to behave as she did when we first met. Nor does she want me to be the person I was when I found her. Love is beyond time, or rather, love is both time and space.
We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be. It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. We can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you are capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life’, but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time doesn’t pass, it merely changes. Everything has changed; it’s just that we can’t see it.
We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms. For example, I can’t see who is in the next carriage, but it contains people travelling in the same time as me, as you, as everyone. The fact that we can’t speak to them or know what’s going on in that other carriage is completely irrelevant. They are there. So what we call ‘life’ is a train with many carriages. Sometimes we’re in one, sometimes we’re in another, and sometimes we cross between them, when we dream or allow ourselves to be swept away by the extraordinary.
We still can communicate with them. Every night we shift onto another plane while we’re sleeping. We talk to the living, with those we believe dead, with those who live in another dimension, and with ourselves, with the people we once were and the people we will be.
Love always triumphs over what we call death. That’s why there’s no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side. It’s hard for us to accept that.
We shouldn’t underestimate any of our enemies who pass to the other side. I’m not saying that they can do any harm here–they can’t, unless you let them. Because the fact is that we are there with them and they are here with us. On the same train. The only way to solve the problem is to correct mistakes and resolve conflicts. And that will happen at some point, even though it may take many ‘lives’ before it does. We carry on, meeting and saying goodbye for all eternity. A departure followed by a return, and a return followed by a departure.
We do exist, but in the same way that a cell exists. A cell can cause a destructive cancer to invade an organism, but at the same time it can send out chemical elements that produce happiness and well-being. But the cell is not the person.
We’re stuck eternally on the same train, until God decides to stop it for reasons known only to him.- Paulo Coelho -
KING OF MY KINGDOM
You can’t measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. Time doesn’t pass. We human being have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we’re always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn’t act as we should have. Or else, we think about the future, about what we’re doing tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don’t want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.
Right here right now, you are beginning to wonder: is there really something wrong? Yes, there is. But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s eternity.
There’s no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment!
If I did something wrong, I can put it right or at least ask forgiveness. If I did something right, that leaves me happier and more connected with the now.
Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station.
Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life. And that is my great fear at the moment that some tragedy will occur. Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss. When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been; it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new. In theory, every loss is for our own good; in practice, though, that is when we question the existence of God and ask ourselves: what did I do to deserves this? Anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.
CHINESE BAMBOO
I am in all the people surrounding me and they are in me. Together we write the Book of Life, our every encounter determined by fate and our hands joined in the belief that we can make a difference in this world. Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.
We simply have to trust and follow the signs and live our Personal Legend; sooner or later, we will realize that we are all part of something, even if we can’t understand rationally what that something is.
We are all redeemed and free to follow the path that has no beginning and will have no end.
SHARING SOULS
Inhale deeply and ask for all of the blessings in the air to enter your body and fill every cell. Then exhale slowly, projecting happiness and peace around you.
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To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
- Paulo Coelho -
- Paulo Coelho -
