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 -
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