Paulo Coelho – Manuscript found in Accra

Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold?

The tree says to the leaf:

‘That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveler. Your sap is in my sap, we are one thing.’

Does a young man, rejected by his first love, declare that love does not exist?

The young man says to himself: ‘I’ll find someone better able to understand what I feel. And then I will be happy for the rest of my days.’

Losing a battle or losing everything we thought we possessed will bring us moments of sadness, but when those moments pass, we will discover the hidden strength that exists in each of us, a strength that will surprise us and increase our self-respect.

Wait patiently for the right moment to act.

Do not let the next opportunity slip.

Take pride in your scars.

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle. Often this will lead them to seek dialogue and avoid conflict.

Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.

Albert Camus 

“Real generosity towards the future consists in giving all to what is present”

Failure is important to personal inner-growth, expansion , psychic reward.

Never regret the past, embrace it as your teacher.

The monk who sold his Ferrari -Robin S Sharma

Spotting the pot of tea I had left on the table next to him, he
started to pour into my waiting cup.

He poured until the cup was full—but then he kept on pouring! Tea started to trickle down the sides of the cup and into the saucer, then onto my wife’s prized
Persian rug.

At first I watched silently. Then I couldn’t take it any more.

“Julian, what are you doing? My cup is overflowing. No matter
how hard you try, no more will go in!” I yelled impatiently.

He looked at me for a long moment. “Please don’t take this the
wrong way. I really respect you, John. I always have.

However, just like this cup, you seem to be full of your own ideas. And how
can any more go in. . . until you first empty your cup?”

I was struck by the truth of his words. He was right. My many
years in the conservative legal world, doing the same things every
day with the same people who thought the same thoughts every
day had filled my cup to the brim.

“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.”

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-The Spade

Start knowing where you live:

“We are back where we started

Home… only now, we can really know it

Fragile… destined to die swallowed by a dying Sun

But we shouldn t despair, we should rejoice

We managed to experience the wonders of the Universe
We should celebrate our achievements

Enjoy our moments in the Sun”

Embrace the energy that give and take life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vOU6-1yNZs

We start our life as a rough diamond, celestial powder from the Cosmos.

It is sad, that some people don’t realize that, and they end up their human experience still as a rough diamond.
All the experiences we take in life is Mouldering – polishing – carving our impurities.

The more we suffer, we endure, more we open our mind and try to change the perspective we see the world, taking every person as a teacher, every experience as a lesson… “more carats the better”.

We don t have to be all alike, different, craziness is a good thing.

Be different , know your true self.

Beauty is relative but it seems like we all have the same notion of love, kindness and this is who we are born and supposed to be.
“Everything in nature is enlightened, because they are acting according to their nature…..only for the human being, it seems he dosen t accept his nature” Roshan

Difficulties appears when we use the mind, the mind it s conflict,duality, fluctuations it s a programed machine. But we can use our soul to change it, breath, yoga to our betterment.

“Strong unique identity ” Roshan said.

And if you think about it…what s true happiness than just being yourself and being loved and accepted for who you are. The sense of belonging. The higher point in Maslow pyramid.

The answer to everything is love. Stop questioning everything and take a deep inhale. And bring yourself to the present the only thing that matters.

Namaste

An old man was going for a walk, when he noticed a little boy feeding a thin, shaggy looking dog with bits of bread. He went up to the boy and asked him why he was sharing his bread with the dogs.

The little boy answered, “Because they have nothing. No home, no family, and if I don’t feed them they will die.” “But there are homeless dogs everywhere,” the old man replied. “So your efforts don’t really make a difference” The little boy looked at the dog and stroked him. “But for this little dog, it makes all the difference in the world.”

There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village. As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish. The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”

The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”

“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.

“This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.

The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”

The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”

The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman. “I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”

The fisherman continues, “And after that?”

The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”

The fisherman asks, “And after that?”

The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with your kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”

The fisherman smiled.