"Everyday we try to pretend that we havent percieved that moment, that it doesnt exist- that today is the same as yesterday and willl be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pat attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quite that follows the lunch hour or in the thoudsand and one things that seem the same to us. But that moment exists -a moment when all power if the stars becomes part of us and enables us to perform miracles.
Joy is sometimes a blessing but often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments - but all this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps whe wont suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back- and at some point everyone looks back- she will hear her heart saying,' What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? what have you done to the talents God bestowed on you? You buried your life in a cave because you were fearful of loosing those talents. so this is your heritage: the certainty that you wasted your life' " -Paulo Coelho By the river piedra I sat down and wept
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