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Carpe Diem #1335 pursue your dreams
People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.” (Source: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho)
Carpe Diem #1334 An Empty Mind
[…] “Now each morning, when your mind is still empty, devote a little time to the Divine … Inhale deeply and ask for all the blessings in the air to enter your body and fill every cell. Then exhale slowly, projecting happiness and peace around you. Repeat this ten times. You’ll be helping to heal yourself and contributing to healing the world as well”. […] (Source: Aleph by Paulo Coelho)
Carpe Diem #1333 José’s Sandals
Carpe Diem #1332 No Time To Waste
[…] “Someone asked him that why are some luckier than the others. One of the extraordinary excerpts on this subject where he calls success as a consequence and not an end, ‘Success comes to those who do not waste time comparing what they are doing with what others are doing; it enters the house of the person who says “I will do my best’ everyday”. […] (Source: Manuscript Found In Accra by Paulo Coelho)
Carpe Diem #1330 loyalty
..] ‘Loyalty has its roots in respect and respect is the fruit of Love, and Love drives out the demons of the imagination – which distrust everything and everyone – and, instead, returns purity to our gaze’. […] (Source: Manuscript found in Accra – Paulo Coelho)
in green willow’s shade
Jasmine and lily flourish
sunlight slipping in
[…] “The ashes of the dead … will become the plants that are reborn in the spring.” […] (Source: The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho)
Carpe Diem #1327 A Perfect Life …?
[…] “An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.” […] (Source: Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
one last time
before you leave us
a beautiful smile
milkweed dug from your garden
planted for monarch passion
Dedicated to my friend Cathy, who loved life.
Carpe Diem #1325 follow the dictates of your heart
[…] “There is no sin but the lack of love, have courage, be capable of loving, even if love appears to be a treacherous and terrible thing. Be happy in love. Be joyful in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.” […] (Source: The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho)
[…] “Let yourself get carried away by the night from time to time. Look up at the stars and try to get drunk on the sense of infinity. The night, with all its charms, is also a path to enlightenment. Just as a dark well has thirst-quenching water at its bottom, the night, whose mystery brings us closer to the mystery of God, has a flame capable of enkindling our soul hidden in its shadows.” […] (Source: Adultery by Paulo Coelho)
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