"All you have to do is pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step."
"We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin, the second is knowing when to stop."
"As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realise that they are far more capable than they thought they were."
"No one is alone in their troubles; there is always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way, and that gives us the strength to confront the challenge before us."
"In the Mongolian creation myth, doe and the wild dog come together. Two beings with very different natures: In the wild, the dog would normally kill the deer for food. In the Mongolian myth, they both understand that they each need the qualities of the other if they are to survive in a hostile world and that they should, therefore, join forces.
To do this, they must first learn to love. And in order to love, they must cease to be who they are, otherwise they will never be able to live together. With the passing of time, the wild dog comes to accept that his instinct, always focused on the struggle to survive, now serves a greater purpose: finding someone with whom he can rebuild the world."
"If I behave in the way people expect me to behave, I will become their slave. It requires enormous sel-fcontrol not to succumb, because our natural tendency is to please, even if the person to be pleased is us. If I do that, I will lose everything you have achieved so far."
"That's how love got lost. When we started laying down rules for which love should or shouldn't appear."
"What's wrong is the way in which we show our love now. If we were to accept that this creates problems, we could live those problems and be happy. It would be a constant battle, but it would at least keep us active, alive and cheerful, with many universes to conquer; the trouble is we're heading towards a point where things are becoming too comfortable, where love stops creating problems and confrontations and becomes instead merely a solution."
"It is always important to know when something has reached it 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. Slowly, I began to realise that I could not go back and force things to be as they once were: those two years, which up until then had seemed an endless inferno, were now beginning to show me their true meaning."
"All men and all women are connected by an energy which many people call ove, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forwards, 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.
We could spend the rest of our life saying that we love such a person or thing, when the truth is that we are merely suffering because, instead of accepting love's strength, we are trying to diminish it so that it fits the world to which we imagine we live."
"If I were to see her again, my face needed to be as clean as hers. Before I could find her, I must first find myself."
"I came to realise that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent or self-confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were."
"I am free, but as I'm sure you'll understand, therein lies the secret; there are always some stories that are "interrupted", and there are always some stories that remain nearest to the surface and so still occupy the present; only when we close that story or chapter can we begin the next one."
"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."
"What are interrupted stores?
She reached a point where she could go no further in the process of emptying herself of unhappiness and allowing joy to flow in. Why? Because her story, like that of millions of other people, is bound up with the energy of love. It can't evolve on its own: she must either stop loving or wait until her beloved comes to her."
"In failed marriages, when one person stops walking, the other is forced to do the same. And while he or she is waiting , other lovers appear, or there.... It would be much easier to talk openly about things, to insist, to yell: "Let's move on, we're dying of tedium, anxiety, fear."
"She has a choice between stopping loving you or making you come to her."
"The acomodador or giving up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from the giving up point and, to do so, he must review his whole life and find out where it occurred."
"If you are a nobody, if you work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then you're defying the law and deserve to be punished."
"The first thing you feel, when you set out on a journey like this, is that you'll never arrive. Then you feel insecure, abandoned and spend all your time thinking about giving up. But if you can last a week, then you'll make it to the end."
"He will have to forget for ever his history of pain of suffering, and accept that he is a new person who has just been reborn and that, from now on, he will be reborn every day. If he doesn't do that, and if they ever do live together again, he will expect her to pay him back for all the pain she once caused him."
"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 realised that I had set off on a path of no return and that when one does that, one can only go forward."
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