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The personal legend - Conversation with the master |
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Posted by Julia
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by Paulo Coelho
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- What is the Personal Legend?
- It is your blessing, the
path God has chosen for you here on Earth. Whenever a man does that
which gives him enthusiasm, he is following his Legend. However, not
everyone has the courage to face up to his own dreams.
- Why is that?
- There are four obstacles. The first: he has heard, right from
childhood, that everything he wishes to live is impossible. He grows up
with this idea, and as he acquires age, he also accumulates layers of
prejudices, fears, guilt. There comes a time when his Personal Legend
is so deeply buried within his soul, he can no longer see it. But it is
still there.
"If he has the courage to unearth his dreams, he
then faces a second obstacle: love. He now knows what he desires to do,
but he thinks he will harm those around him, if he gives everything up
to follow his dreams. He does not understand that love is an additional
impulse, not something which hinders one from going forward. He does
not understand that those who truly wish him well are longing for his
happiness, and are ready to accompany him on this adventure.
"After accepting love as a stimulus, a man faces the third obstacle:
the fear of the defeats he will encounter along the way. A man who
fights for his dream suffers far more when something doesn't go well,
because he cannot use the famous excuse: "oh, well in fact that wasn't
exactly what I wanted anyway..." He does want it, and knows he is
putting everything into it, and also that the Personal Legend is just
as difficult as any other path - the difference being that your heart
is present on this journey. So, a warrior of the light must be prepared
to be patient at difficult times, and know that the Universe is
conspiring in his favor, even if he does not understand how.
- Are the defeats necessary?
- Whether necessary or not, they occur. When he begins fighting for his
dreams, man has no experience, and makes many mistakes. But the secret
in life is to fall seven times, and rise up eight times.
- Why is it important to live the Personal Legend, if we are to suffer just as much as others?
- Because after having overcome the defeats - and we always overcome
them - we feel much more euphoria and confidence. In the silence of our
hearts, we know we are worthy of the miracle of life. Each day, each
hour, is part of the Good Combat. We begin to live with enthusiasm and
pleasure. Very intense and unexpected suffering begins passing faster
than apparently tolerable suffering: that drags on for years, eroding
our soul without us noticing what is happening - until one day we can
no longer free ourselves of the bitterness, and it accompanies us for
the rest of our lives.
- And what is the fourth obstacle?
- After unearthing your dream, using the power of love for support,
spending many years with the scars, a man realizes - from one day to
the next - that everything he always wanted is right there, waiting for
him, perhaps the very next day. Then comes the fourth obstacle: the
fear of realizing the dream he has fought for all his life.
- That makes no sense.
- Oscar Wilde said that we always destroy the thing we love the most.
And it is true. The simple possibility of achieving that which we
desire causes the soul of the common man to be filled with guilt. He
looks around, and sees many others who have not succeeded, and so he
thinks he does not deserve it. He forgets everything he overcame, all
he suffered, everything he had to renounce in order to come this far. I
know many people who, when they are within reach of their Personal
Legend, make a series of silly mistakes and do not attain their
objective - when it was just one step away.
"This is the most
dangerous of the obstacles, because it has a certain aura of sanctity
about it: to renounce to joy and the conquest. But if the man is worthy
of that which he has fought so hard for, he then becomes an instrument
of God, aids the Soul of the World, and understands why he is there".
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