Hi,
Good morning! Hope you had a great week and a great start in the New Year. I shared with you last Saturday a selected learning from the book ‘The Pilgrimage’ of Paulo Coelho. I must tell you that I found this book to be of much more learning. Hence, I would like to share with you another important note that I made from it.
Basically, in this book, Paulo describes his journey on the medieval sacred route from ‘Saint-jean-de-port to Santiago de Compostela’ and shares the ancient wisdom he explores and experiences and feels it as the secret of success of people. In his own beautiful style, he unearths the learning through various chapters including those on Arrival, Cruelty, The Messenger, Love, Marriage, Enthusiasm, Death, and Conquest . Let me reproduce the notes I made from the chapter ‘Death’ that Paulo extols..
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Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity – leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one’s name from being forgotten – I regard as the highest form of human dignity.”
“Still being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering their fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose – for death is inevitable.”
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Wav! Well said, Paulo! As we march forward in our lives let us give our best every single day and live the life with highest dignity and decorum.
The other salient notes I made from this book are posted on my blog, ‘Trainer’s Notes from Siva: From ‘The Pilgrimage of Paulo Coelho’. You can read them by clicking on the link given below:
http://value4value.blogspot.com/2012/01/trainers-notes-for-success-from-siva.html
To your SUCCESS,
With love and regards,
Siva
Good morning! Hope you had a great week and a great start in the New Year. I shared with you last Saturday a selected learning from the book ‘The Pilgrimage’ of Paulo Coelho. I must tell you that I found this book to be of much more learning. Hence, I would like to share with you another important note that I made from it.
Basically, in this book, Paulo describes his journey on the medieval sacred route from ‘Saint-jean-de-port to Santiago de Compostela’ and shares the ancient wisdom he explores and experiences and feels it as the secret of success of people. In his own beautiful style, he unearths the learning through various chapters including those on Arrival, Cruelty, The Messenger, Love, Marriage, Enthusiasm, Death, and Conquest . Let me reproduce the notes I made from the chapter ‘Death’ that Paulo extols..
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Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity – leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one’s name from being forgotten – I regard as the highest form of human dignity.”
“Still being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering their fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose – for death is inevitable.”
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Wav! Well said, Paulo! As we march forward in our lives let us give our best every single day and live the life with highest dignity and decorum.
The other salient notes I made from this book are posted on my blog, ‘Trainer’s Notes from Siva: From ‘The Pilgrimage of Paulo Coelho’. You can read them by clicking on the link given below:
http://value4value.blogspot.com/2012/01/trainers-notes-for-success-from-siva.html
To your SUCCESS,
With love and regards,
Siva
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