“Love shared the same mountains, even if each looked at them differently.”
Do you believe in magic? I do.
The other day I watched a Benjamin Hardy video, “How to Achieve More in 1 Week than Most Do in 12 Months,” and one of the points was visualization. And I did what Benjamin Hardy said.
I started watching myself like Paulo Coelho on a book tour (Don’t judge me, Benjamin said to visualize big things to expand our capacity to believe 🙂
The following day I went to the coffee shop and found a book of quotes from Coelho in the middle of the street. I rolled my eyes and asked myself, “Are you kidding me?”
The miracle Benjamin Hardy suggests appears the day after visualization. Amazing!
I read that book of quotes, and a kind of holly spirit energy made me mark some of these quotes with magic inside, and I want to share that with you. To change your mind for the better. To make you believe in miracles.
Let’s start.
“The only way to save our dreams is to be generous with ourselves.”
Paulo Coelho writes this sentence in his book “The Pilgrimage.” And it makes all the sense in the world. People tend to tell us that we are selfish when we want to fulfill a dream. And we often believe them.
We live in a society that has taught us to consume the dreams of others passively but not to pursue our own.
Maybe you don’t want a car, a trip to the Caribbean, or an attractive partner. Perhaps you have a dissident ideal of success. Maybe you are a different person from the herd. And you don’t have to feel selfish about needing time to fulfill your dreams.
How To Apply to your life.
You have to be generous with yourself. You can’t leave yourself for last place. Because if you always put other people’s wishes before your own, you’ll end up bitter, and you’ll make your loved ones bitter.
Try to prioritize yourself every morning. Try to get up an hour earlier and dedicate it to yourself, to accomplish your goals. Do it for 3 months, and you will see the changes.
“Victory can give me confidence but not become a burden.”
Paulo writes this sentence in a newspaper column entitled “when we educate ourselves to win.” And it is more potent than it seems at first glance. Let’s analyze it.
We need small victories to gain certainties that will enhance our motivation and faith in ourselves. But on the other hand, if we spend too much time on self-congratulation, we will end up losing our hunger to grow, and we will stagnate.
Success can be a winner’s worst ally. All winners know that succeeding is more accessible than keeping up because success makes you careless, weak, and arrogant.
How To Apply to your life.
There is a phrase that Coelho writes in his book The Zahir that teaches you how to deal with success so that it doesn’t become toxic.
“You always have to know when a stage comes to an end. Closing cycles, closing doors, ending chapters, no matter what name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that are already over.”
Applied to success: you cannot live on past glories. When you run a goal, remember it when the storm comes to remind you that you once achieved the impossible. But don’t EVER stop when you are winning. Close the chapter on your success and run to the next mountain in your life.
“Love shared the same mountains, even if each looked at them differently.”
With this sentence from his book “The Valkyries,” Paulo tells us about the subtle reality of love. If you love people for having a beautiful body, for their prestige at work, for having a bank account with more than six figures, or for any other superficial reason, you misunderstand love.
Love is sharing the mountains of life, respecting how your partner faces them, and supporting them until the end.
How To Apply to your life.
In Buddhism there are three mountains: old age, sickness, and death. It is very easy to be with a person who is healthy, wealthy, and young (or should be). But everything in life undergoes a process of decay.
When you start a new relationship ask yourself “Would I be willing to grow old with this person,” “Would I be willing to assist this person if he/she gets sick,” and above all, “Do I believe this person would do the same for me?
And if you answer “no” to any of the three questions, run away, and don’t waste your time with that person, or waste their time.
Never forget that as Coelho once wrote, “Accumulating love means luck, accumulating hate means calamity.”
“The important things always remain; what goes away are the things that we considered important but were useless.”
In his book Zahir, Coelho dazzles us again with this phrase full of light and wisdom. We are onions that lose layers as we grow.
Life takes away everything we don’t need. And only what remains.
That is why human beings have always searched for the truth because the truth is that which remains.
How To Apply to your life.
Practice detachment. But above all, do not suffer for the one who left, because he fulfilled his function in your life, and now you do not need him anymore (even if you think you do.)
The universe is older and wiser than you. And as Steve Jobs used to say, “The dots connect from front to back, not the other way around.”
In a few years you will understand why that partner left you, why you got fired from that job, or why you lost that friend. And you will discover that it was all for your progress.
A virtual hug
AG
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