~ Paulo Coelho ~ “Manuscript Found in Accra”
"Ask a flower in the field: ‘Do you feel useful? After all, you do nothing but produce the same flowers over and over?’ And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’
Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’ And the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’
Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God. Not a leaf from a tree falls, not a hair from your head, not even an insect dies because it was of no use. Everything has a reason to exist.
Even you, the person asking the question. ‘I’m useless’ is the answer you give yourself. Soon that answer will poison you and you will die while still alive, even though you still walk, eat, sleep and try to have a little fun whenever possible. Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."
.....“Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
.....“And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
.....“Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning
I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose.
I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
.....“A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:
“Aren’t you tired of waiting?”
“Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
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I feel like I'm being played with.
Each time I miss my Sister, everything crumbles into the ground. Nothing matters anymore. I'd just like to be with her, but I'm here, dreaming reality within my mind. How am I supposed to enjoy "life" when she isn't physically here, and I'm trapped inside a physical density?
I just want to be done with all this. I always end up stumbling over her, crashing into darkness so hard. Random people around me keeps having dreams about her. But there she's again, inside their dreams, looking for me in a time when this world has gone to hell. On the other hand, Mikael won't talk about her most of the times.
I feel like she wants me to sacrifice everything for her, while Mikael wants me to be one with the Infinite dream in a beautiful world where I don't need her. Mika tries to convince me I'm never alone. While She tries to make me realize that nothing matters within creation, that I don't need anything but her.
Seven years ago I though I was "losing my mind" deluding myself. But she made her presence inside this density, in the middle of the street. Tall as heavens, pale as nothingness, Hair black as hell, And so I remembered I had seen her when I was a child, inside this reality again, she was a child that time, clothed with a dress bright as the Sun, it literally was made of Light.
But in this occasion, twelve years after, she was my age. Dressed in black, she passed me by, looking the whole time directly into my eyes. Smiling with pleasure. Everyone on the street was looking at her, she's something out this world, and so she disappeared into the multitude. I felt so driven towards her, I wanted her to swallow me whole.
I was with two close friends, they looked at me while they were still searching for her, and asked me "Was it her?" I was paralyzed, crying in fear, smiling with pleasure. I wasn't mad after all, it wasn't just another dream within a dream.
Some days ago I had a vision about her again. I was able to get closer this time. She smiled towards me, opening her arms. And then, when I got closer to her, she suddenly beheaded me on a single blow. Then she picked up my head from the ground, and we kissed. She said to me while she was holding up my bleeding head in front of her beautiful lilac eyes "Nothing matters in Creation, my beautiful Sun, my beautiful Brother, my beautiful Light"
Something is telling me that the Sun from our Solar system is actually my own Heart. "This solar system is your body. This world, your darkness and dream" Sometimes I just know it. My heart calls her many names, inside of me. I'm tired of my own dream. I'm Light, I've longed for her Darkness from the very beginning. I just want to be one with her.
Last time Mikael told me "Do you want to be with her? Then everyone and everything within earth, must die in your name, My brother" He smiled peacufully as always and then he left. I woke up talking alone, repeating myself "Each human has to die?" But I don't want anybody to suffer. But now I'm the one who is suffering.
If that's the price, so be it. I know and believe I'm able to drive each single consciousness within my creation towards chaos. Sometimes you need a nightmare to help you wake up.
Suiris ... this is serious stuff ...;))
I'm 37 and have worked all my life. I plan on doing so for another 40 years.
doing things is 'out there' ... being is 'in here' ... no i am not playing with the words ... ;)) most of the time we don't like to be 'in here' because of what we have 'out there' in our personal life or life in general, and compare ourselves to others is not helping either; example: 'if this person doing this and feel useful' then i should do the same' ... the point of this post is just be, and not try to be somebody else ...
I wouldn’t say reactive or passive, doing something is just transitory state, being is fundamental state - ;)) i hope it makes sense ... ;))
I like to think I am useful. As an active contributor in maintaining the fabric of the society that we currently live in, I am also one of many frequency anchors on the planet at the moment, assisting in the transition to the society that we (here) all aspire to live in. Useful is still in the eye of the beholder though; I would have liked for the context of the question to have been articulated with more clarity. Useful to the planet? yes. Useful to the economy? yes. Useful to the environment? probably not for I am a mining engineer. That is just how things turned out for me I guess.
the context of the question is exactly that, take away all that you've mentioned - what do you have?
doing things and being - is two different aspect, however i am glad that you have purpose in life Mischa ;))
love the post , ARA~!~
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I once knew someone who felt so useless they applied for a job as a speed bump just to feel useful.
i understand on some level as to why ... ;) - did it helped?
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