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Believing in the impossible |
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Posted by Julia
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William
Blake says in one of his texts: “all that today is a reality was once
only part of an impossible dream,” and that is why today we have the
airplane, space exploration, the computer with which I am writing this
column, and so on. In Lewis Carroll’s famous masterpiece “Alice through
the Looking Glass,” there is a dialogue between the main character and
the Queen, who has just told something quite extraordinary...
- I can’t believe it – says Alice.
- Can’t believe it? – the
Queen repeats with a sad look on her face. – Try again: take a deep
breath, close your eyes, and believe.
Alice laughs:
- It’s no good trying. Only fools believe that impossible things can happen.
- I think what you need is a
little training – answers the Queen. – When I was your age I would
practice at least half an hour a day, right after breakfast, I tried
very hard to imagine five or six unbelievable things that could cross
my path, and today I see that most of the things I imagined have turned
real, I even became a Queen because of that.
Life constantly asks us:
"believe!” Believing that a miracle can happen at any moment is
necessary not only for our happiness but also for our protection, or to
justify our existence. .
My Iranian publisher, Arash Hejasi, once sent me a text that said:
“Today a heavy rainstorm
caught me by surprise when I was walking down the street ... thank God
I had my umbrella and raincoat. Except that they were both in my car,
parked quite a distance away. While I was running to get them I thought
what a strange sign I was receiving – we always have the necessary
resources to face the storms that life prepares for us, but most times
these resources are locked away in the bottom of our heart and this
makes us waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them, so that
when we finally find them, we have already been defeated by adversity.”
/taken from the Paulo Koelho online megazine/
http://www.warriorofthelight.com
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