September 11th, 2007: Thoughts for the day:
Statutes for Life
Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by
consequence, and the past by redemption.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Statutes for life
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We at present are a product of our accumultive choices we have made in our past.
(Chillen)
We can change our future by reviewing our choices in the present and likewise change our future.
(Chillen)
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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto
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Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Manual for Climbing Mountains
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Be happy when you reach the top: cry, clap your hands, shout to the four winds that you did it, let the wind - the wind is always blowing up there - purify your mind, refresh your tired and sweaty feet, open your eyes, clean the dust from your heart. It feels so good, what was just a dream before, a distant vision, is now part of your life, you did it!
Paulo Coelho
Source: Manual for Climbing Mountains
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Be prepared to climb one kilometer more: the way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far. But since you were prepared to go beyond, this is not really a problem.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Manual for Climbing Mountains
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Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the time that life grants you, as long as you walk without demanding what can't be granted. If you go too fast you will grow tired and give up half way there. If you go too slow, night will fall and you will be lost. Enjoy the scenery, take delight in the cool spring water and the fruit that nature generously offers you, but keep on walking.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Manual for Climbing Mountains
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When seen up close, dangers are controllable: when you begin to climb the mountain of your dreams, pay attention to the surroundings. There are cliffs, of course. There are almost imperceptible cracks in the mountain rock. There are stones so polished by storms that they have become as slippery as ice. But if you know where you are placing each footstep, you will notice the traps and how to get around them.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Manual for Climbing Mountains
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Learn from someone who has already been up there: no matter how unique you feel, there is always someone who has had the same dream before you and ended up leaving marks that can make your journey easier; places to hang the rope, trails, broken branches to make the walking easier. The climb is yours, so is the responsibility, but don't forget that the experience of others can help a lot.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Manual for Climbing Mountains
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Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Manual for Climbing Mountains
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We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the
profane: from now on, all is sacred.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Statutes for life
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We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Statutes for life
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The only faults considered grave are the following: not respecting
the rights of one's neighbor, letting oneself be paralyzed by fear,
feeling guilty, thinking one does not deserve the good and bad which
occurs in life, and being a coward.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Statutes for life
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Each human being must keep alight within him the sacred flame of
madness. And must behave like a normal person.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Statutes for life
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Each man has a feminine side, and each woman has a masculine side.
It is necessary to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition
objectively.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Statutes for life
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Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the
blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case,
there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Statutes for life
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Each human being has been granted two qualities: power and gift.
Power drives man to meet his destiny, his gift obliges him to share
with others that which is good in him. A man must know when to use his
power, and when to use his gift.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Statutes for life
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The warrior of light
concentrates on the small
miracles of daily life
Paulo Coelho
Source: The Manual of the Warrior of Light
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No one can hit their target
with their eyes closed
Paulo Coelho
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
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God is love, generosity and forgiveness;
if we believe in this,
we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyze us.
Paulo Coelho
Source: The Valkyries
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Dreams nourish the soul
just as food nourishes the body.
The pleasure of the search and of adventure
feed our dreams.
Paulo Coelho
Source: The Pilgrimage
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Making mistakes is a way of taking action.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Eleven Minutes
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It is always important to know when something has reached its end.
Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters,
it doesn't matter what we call it;
what matters is to leave in the past
those moments in life that are over
Paulo Coelho
Source: The Zahir
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Sorrows do not last forever
when we are journeying towards the thing
we have always wanted.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Life
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Sometimes an unimportant incident
is capable of turning everything beautiful
into a moment of anxiety.
We insist on seeing the mote in the eye
and forget about the mountains,
the fields and the olive groves.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Life
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Be like the fountain that overflows,
not like the cistern that merely contains.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Life
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It is even more difficult
to define a path for yourself.
The person who does not make a choice
dies in the eyes of the Lord,
even though he continues
to breathe and to walk about the streets.
For a man has to choose, therein lies his strength:
in the power of his decisions.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Life
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No one day is like another;
each tomorrow has its special miracle,
its magic moment in which old universes
are destroyed and new stars created.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Life
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When we put off the harvest,
the fruit rots,
but when we put off our problems,
they keep on growing.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Life
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The only way to make the right decision
is to find out which is the wrong decision,
to examine that other path without fear,
and only then decide.
Paulo Coelho
Source: Life
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A very interesting Charactor, and all of this applies to the mental aspect of Diet and training.
I need say no more.
Best Wishes,
Chillen
