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Dear Friends,
Today is the fourth episode of Paulo Coelho's travel
throughout Siberia. As you will see he has reached the famous Baikal
Lake - a place where shamans dwell.
Paulo shares many fascinating thoughts about nature, the soul of the world and the mission of a writer.
Enjoy and share!
Aart
A man called in a priest to perform an exorcism in his house. He then went to stay in a hotel and left the priest to his work.
The priest spent a few days sleeping in the haunted house. He sprinkled
holy water in all the rooms, said prayers, and, when he judged his task
to be done, he summoned the owner, saying that the results had been
fantastic.
‘How many demons did you exorcise?’ the owner asked.
‘None.’
‘And how many did you see in my house?’
‘None.’
‘Then how can you say that the results were fantastic?’
‘When one is fighting the forces of evil, then none is more than enough.’
(c) Paulo Coelho
from Paulo Coelho's blog
When he died, Juan found himself in an exquisite place, surrounded by
all the comfort and beauty he had always dreamed of. A man dressed in
white spoke to him:
‘You can have anything you want, any food, any pleasure, any diversion,’ he said.
Delighted, Juan did everything he had dreamed of doing while alive.
Then, after many years of pleasure, he again searched out the man in
white.
‘I’ve done everything I wanted to do. Now I need a job, so that I can feel useful,’ he said.
‘I’m sorry,’ replied the man in white. ‘But that is the one thing I can’t give you; there is no work here.’
‘How awful!’ said Juan angrily. ‘That means I’ll spend all eternity bored to death! I wish I was in Hell!’
The man in white came over to him and said softly:
‘And where exactly do you think you are, sir?’ (c)
from Paulo Coelho's blog
(c) Paulo Coelho
taken from blog.
He often finds himself faced with the same problems and situations as before.
He becomes depressed. He begins to think he is incapable of making progress in life, the difficult moments having returned.
I've already been through this, he complains to his heart.
It is true, you have been through it, replies the heart. But you never went beyond it.
The warrior then understands that the repetition of experiences have one single purpose: to teach him that he has not yet learned.
He begins to seek out a new solution for each repeated struggle - until he finds a way of conquering.
(c) Paulo Coelho
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