Again a novel of Paulo Coelho, i don’t know how people can explain life’s most complicated things through words

This novel is based on a person’s perfect imperfect love story how he found his love, how he lost her and then again how he found her.

The Zahir was more than a man obsessed with an object, with a vein in the marble of one of the twelve hundred columns in the mosque .The Zahir was a fixation on everything that had been passed from generation to generation; it left no question unanswered; it took up all the space; it never allowed us even to consider the possibility that things could change.The all-powerful Zahir seemed to be born with every human being and to gain full strength in childhood, imposing rules that would thereafter always be respected:

So here are my favourite lines/coversation from the novel

1. “What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over”
2. “The universe tells us when we’re wrong by taking away what is most important to us.”
3. “We can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun. But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.”
4. The voice is the Energy, and that is why she only brings people together when they are both truly prepared for that moment.And yet we all try and force the situation even if it means hearing the very words we don’t want to hear: ‘Go away.’ Anyone who fails to obey the voice and arrives earlier or later than he should, will never get the thing he wants.”
5. “What we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect and attention in order to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take next.call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.
6. “The most satisfying encounters do not always happen around elegant tables in nice, warm restaurants.”
7. That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability, or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.
8. “As if the created thing were always greater and more generous than its creator.”
9. A warrior of light knows that he has much to be grateful for.
   He was helped in his struggle by the angels; celestial forces placed each thing in its place, thus allowing him to give of his best. That is why, at sunset, he kneels and gives thanks for the Protective Cloak surrounding him.
   His companions say: “He’s so lucky!” But he knows that “luck” is knowing to look around him and to see where his friends are, because it was through their words that the angels were able to make themselves heard.
10. We rich, powerful, intelligent people knew that, deep down, we had acquired all these ornaments and credit cards only in order to find love and affection and to be with someone who loved us.
11. In the hospital, love had spoken to me: “I am everything and I am nothing. I am the wind, and I cannot enter windows and doors that are shut.”
    And I said to love: “But I am open to you.”
    And love said to me: “The wind is made of air. There is air inside your house, but everything is shut up. The furniture will get covered in dust, the damp will ruin the paintings and stain the walls. You will continue to breathe, you will know a small part of me, but I am not a part, I am Everything, and you will never know that.”I saw that the furniture was covered in dust, that the paintings were being corroded by damp, and I had no alternative but to open the windows and doors. When I did that, the wind swept everything away. I wanted to cling to my memories, to protect what I thought I had worked hard to achieve, but everything had disappeared and I was as empty as the steppes.
12. “Age only slows down those who never had the courage to walk at their own pace.”
13. “He said that my past would always go with me, but that the more I freed myself from facts and concentrated on emotions, the more I would come to realize that in the present there is always a space as vast as the steppes waiting to be filled up with more love and with more of life’s joy.
14. “Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself—free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.”

– The Zahir ( by Paulo Coelho)

We all have so much different thoughts about our life, others life as well.And that thinking leads us to our happiness or sadness.So let’s take an example here about what i am saying exactly by one liner conversation between two people:-Aman- we only live once snoopySnoopy- wrong. We only die once, We live everyday !!According to Dandapani ji( hindu monk) all the feelings are like different room in a building. You will feel only that feeling where your awareness is. So if you are feeling happy now then your awareness is at happy room of your building. If you are sad then it is in the sad room.Now let me elaborate it in my words.So those of you who are sad and want to be happy you will have to walk to the happy room. And this walk is kind of different. By thinking about the happy events you walk towards the happy room. So by thinking about small happy events you are walking slowly towards the happy room. By thinking about the bigger ones you are almost running. You know that day when you thought that he/she will not text you and he/she did. Remember about the test for which you didn’t prepared and somehow the test was postponed. And that time when your boss was in a happy mood and he didn’t reacted to you mistake. Wow! Oh and that you wished about your favourite food and to your surprise same was cooked at home. And that one also when India won. See you are feeling good now. You walked towards the happy room.This way you can control many feelings.And the important thing here is your happiness should not be , should never be attached to outcomes or people.Outcomes depends on many things just by doing your part you cannot ensure that certain thing will happen the way you expected . And People ahh! You never know when they will change.At times you can use this also :- you have a roof over your head. Clothes to cover your body and food to eat. It is enough for the time being.Be happy. Tomorrow is SUNDAY.

What is death?

Do we have any definition of that?

What i know is the most painful feeling any living being can feel.Death is when someone goes far away from us leaving behind only his body and memory. We burn or bury the body.

What about the memories? What about the guilt? Have you lost anyone and had the guilt of not treating them well?

There was this one night ,i and my brother was watching tv. I went to the kitchen to put something and dinu was there sitting alone in the kitchen, i say to him ‘here you are’ to which he replys ‘ya jiji’, i didn’t look at his face but i saw the colour of his shirt which was blue and i return to the drawing room.Everyone went to there rooms.

10 in the night and my aunt knocks the door. I open the door and she says

“Our Dinu is no more” she repeats again.

It took me few seconds to realise what she said, i go outside and there was my uncle calling here and there, my grandmother, my elder brother who was coming downstairs with a look on his face which i never want to see again.

I go near them to listen and they confirm the news is true . They decide to go to the place where the accident has taken place. And i receive a call from a person of my uncle’s office informing about what happened.

Till they reach the place i was praying that please God ,please, It shouldn’t be him. I remember that dark night we all sit outside in the garden waiting for everyone to return. Unfortunately the news was true, what we heard was true!

Now who was dinu? His name was dinesh, who was working under my uncle and was relative , a brother.

After dinner he left, he use to sleep at our old house. He was going somewhere else and met with an accident.

We all have heard this before God always take nice people and he was the nicest.

What the point here is we all fight with each other, get angry on little things, get jealous of each other and in many cases we easily break the relation.

We don’t know that actually it is not in our hands . We will never see them again, will never be able to talk to them again.I never thought that i will never meet dinu again. We never know whether we will meet the next day or not. And the thing is no one is realising that.

We should never give up on our loved ones till death do us apart. Remember no one has ever return alive after death. So let’s think on this real shit happening and stop the death we are faking with our relations because real death is inevitable !!

We have this whole life yet we fear death even if we don’t know what happens afterward. We have so many years yet we worry about tomorrow which may not come.

Today is that tomorrow which you were worrying about yesterday !!

Its in our very nature to worry, rather than enjoying the present we fear the future or worry about what is done in past.

We all fight, we all cry, we all give up, we all do stupid things but the thing is we do.

We all talk about others who gives interview in and are not selected, who has asked for forgiveness and has not been given, who has proposed someone and has to bear rejection and their they’re taking chances and us judging them.

The thing is many of us don’t even try. We all have dreams of having there own startup, fit body, to be a dancer, singer, writer, topper in class but what we do with that dream?? Nothing. We all sit and procrastinate. Many times we have fear , fear of not getting what we want. And believe me this fear has taken so many of our dreams and even life.

When you accomplish something you realise fear is nothing. Its just a feeling. We always think about the negative and fear and thats why we don’t even try. We lie to our ownself that we need time when the truth behind all this shit is our own thinking of not achieving it.

What our thinking is :- I want to change my job or have my own business, wait what if I fail, what if I do not get other job , I don’t have money. Uhm okay let me first save money to take that risk and after that i will do it. But what happens afterwards we are burdened with responsibility. Now here you were taking precaution but can’t you see at the first step you were negative. We are hiding our negatives by giving it the term precautions.

Now instead saving money if you have thought about just starting then it was obvious you would found other ways of funding your business (check out how known big business are funded ). Its just that you stopped yourself at the first moment only. You should have thought of how rather than “Taking Precautions ”

A question opens the mind

A statement closes the mind

I believe no matter how much degrees we have what matters is how much courage we have . How optimistic we are.

And then their will be people complaining about their age, its too late , to them remember KFC founder Colonel Sander achieved success in his 60s.

If we want to take the chance then there are many examples and if we don’t want to then precautions are necessary.

Let’s leave this feeling of fear right now & just take one chance and turn towards the dream we are dreaming since ages .

So let’s break the Chain. Confused about what chain i am talking ? There’s chain, i don’t know from where it was created but i have seen and felt that no one is ready to break it. The chain is of forgiveness.

There is this girl in my life who constantly pokes me, always tells me about her achievements and everytime trys to humiliate me.

You know what i do? The answer will definitely sound strange to you but thats what i do and i will tell you the reason why i do that and what has been changed afterwards.

Each time she asks me something which i don’t know and later on she tells me how could you not know this thing and all other stuff. And i reply politely saying no i didn’t knew that. few minutes later i will praise her and will say “wow that was an interesting thing ,thanks for telling me”. This thing has been repeated so many times that finally she had changed her way, now everytime she comes across new thing she will tell me rather than asking, she will say look this thing is so amazing etc.

Its not about humiliating, its about forgiveness also.

This same girl fights with me on small issues, things which doesn’t even matter to me or her. But still just to satisfy her ego.

Now what i think from were all these started-She might have been with people who always humiliated her, who always created issue on little things, who always showed disrespect to everyone and all other negative hurtfull things.

I broke the chain by not doing what she was doing to me and she changed.

whenever you meet such person, don’t do the same things which they do to you, rather do the unexpected and break the chain.

Hellloooooo readers !

First of all thank you so much for all the appreciation for “in someone’s shoes”

Last day of the year and you all have your 2019 resolutions ready and if not then make them.

Many of us made resolutions in past and most of us didn’t achieved them , right?

Let’s talk about the main reason of why we didn’t achieve them. We all set goals in our life and only few of us are able to achieve them. The main reason behind this is our Thinking, the way we think.

Let’s go with an example :- for those who want to loose weight, they think how good they will look when they will get the perfect slim body. This motivates them and they set a target of reducing 5-10 kgs. They make plans on how to reduce to those extra kgs, they even start with it. But then there thinking changes, rather than thinking about the results they think like -oh no man i have to wake up early in the morning i can’t, i want to eat pizza but i can’t, this diet sucks etc and then what happens is they get demotivated and then at last they give up saying things like who cares, people should take me the way i am.

This is not the way you achieve your goals. Each one of us need to get better than we were yesterday.You will always have to think about the results instead of the efforts you are going to put in.

What if the warrior in the battle field feel pity on himself saying my hand is bleeding ,there are so many enemies i can’t defeat them,i need someone with me ……stop. Warriors never think like this, all they think about is conquering the enemy

Whenever you feel like giving up just think about results, think about that slim body, your marksheet with grade A,think about that light in your dad’s eyes when you will make him proud,think about the day when you can look into the mirror and say to the person in there “yeah i am proud of you”.

And you should not ,you definitely should not need any reason or anyone whom you need to prove. Just do it for yourself. Set goals for yourself achieve them and face the person in the mirror. No one here is your competition , we all have different circumstances and fair competition is when the person you are competing with have the same abilities and skill as you have. Your only competition is the person you were yesterday. Work hard, work smart ,dont give up even if you are going slow keep on going , because God never measures our smartness all he measures is the efforts we put in & our true desires.

So keep going, have faith and think about the results. Wish you all grand success in the coming year.

Lots of happiness, light and positivity to you all guys ✨

Have you ever put yourself in someone else’s shoes ?

Many of you would be having a positive answer. But let’s get deeper into this.

We all have a judge in our mind knowingly or unknowingly. This judge wasn’t born with us, but it somehow grew in each one of us. How did it grew ? It grew as we grew. Initially it had no laws but it created its own law by seeing everything around it, by listening to all the information , without even filtering it. It followed all the judgements that were passed by its family members,friends,teachers etc.

And now all of us have this judge, by which we judge anybody without even thinking a bit. Without even thinking what they had been through.

We so call ourself educated but we still act like an uneducated person who don’t have their own eyes or ears. All of us have different attitude towards different communities, disabled persons,victims of various situation, bisexual people,the blacks,the whites. Why ?

Why do we treat them different, or if we don’t we do have a different attitude towards them. Ain’t all of them human beings ??

Their is this one friend of mine, extremely talented, great guitarist, great speaker. But she met with an accident after which she wasn’t able to walk. She still plays guitar, give speeches. So whats changed now? People’s attitude towards her, most of the reaction are kind of these “poor girl, she is extremely talented but she cannot walk, how sad it is”. Do the people around even think how does she feels when they give their judgements.

Our attitude towards people changes as soon as we realise that they are from lower caste. Why?

Our attitude changes when we come to know that someone has failed in something. Why?

Our attitude changes when someone elder in our family or some reputed person say from politics talks negatively about someone and even though we do like that person but our attitude changes after hearing few things from other person without using our own eyes, brains and ears just blindly believing the information that is passed to us.

If that elder or politics person was best don’t you think he would focus on betterment of family or country rather than degrading other person so as to make himself look like  the right one.

Don’t you think real educated person will be the one who rather than passing judgements take actions towards betterment, believes in humanity rather than religions, believes in equality rather than preferences.

Let’s start putting ourselves in the shoes of that person whose business failed 10 times, now do you see him as a failure or a warrior ?

Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of person who have darker skin than us, who is of lower caste, who is poor, who is bisexual, who is disabled.

What you will realise ??

I realised that i should be treated equally as all other human beings are treated.

Respect humanity

Heyyy readers, this post is related to one of the famous book of “Paulo Coelho”.

The book name is Maktub

Maktub is a collection of stories and parables that represent a colorful treasure of wisdom.

This book is a must read.You will find many of your answers there. My favourite lines from the book are:-

1. Since I’m going to die, what should I be doing now?
2. The Soul of the World has a great need for your happiness.
3. Who is the best swordsman?”- “The best is the one who is like the rock,” “Without unsheathing a sword, it demonstrates that no one can conquer it.”
4. Our only support should be our faith, because that faith is clear, transparent and born within us. It cannot confused.
5. what a wise man is,” – “It is he who, rather than killing his passions, is able to control them.”
6. Little by little, things will become strangely clear, until you have sufficient strength to choose.
7. There are certain things that are already written, but God finds us a way to get past them without any serious problem
8. When your soul is in agreement with your dreams, it makes God happy.”
9. When a tree is laden with fruit, its branches bend to touch the ground. The truly wise is he who is humble. When a tree bears no fruit, its branches are arrogant and haughty. The foolish man always believes that he is better than others.”
10. We always have an orange in each hand, and one in the air. But that one in the air makes all the difference. It was thrown with ability and experience, but it follows its own course. Like the juggler, we throw a dream out into the world, but we don’t always have control over it. At times like that, you have to know how to put yourself in God’s hands -and ask that, in due time, the dream follows its course correctly and falls, completed, back into your hand.
11. All roads lead to the same place. But choose your own, and follow it to the end. Do not try to walk every road.”
12. Accept the mystery of faith, and the Universe will reveal itself.”
13. The WORD has power.”
14. God is in life and life is in God.
15. If you shoot one hundred arrows in a row, what will happen to your bow?-“My bow would break,” “If someone exceeds his limits, their will is also broken,” “He who is unable to balance work with relaxation loses his enthusiasm, and cannot go far.”
16. There is only one important thing in our lives: to live our personal destiny -the mission that was fated for us. But we always wind up loading ourselves down with useless concerns that then destroy our dream.”
17. Today, in some place, a treasure awaits you
18. Fear a few things and concentrate all of your fear on them,so you can be courageous in facing the important things.

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton