If I really want something does the universe really conspire to help me achieve it? I like to think so.

I was going through my book case the other day looking for a book to read that didn’t involved anything to do with health or fitness. My brain needed something different! I came across a book I bought years ago that left a lasting impression.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a beautiful and wise book about a man on a journey. His journey takes him far and wide, it makes him question everything, it exposes him to a wide variety of people and their stories and it gives him a new perspective. It’s about dreams and realisation, love and loss.

I picked up the book and realised i’d marked a page, I guess past Suzie was sending future Suzie a message. I would like to share a section of that page with you. It is taken from the introduction and is talking about having the courage to confront our dreams. You may just find it is telling you something too.

“We who fight for our dream, suffer far more when it doesn’t work out, because we cannot fall back on the old excuse “Oh, well, I didn’t really want it anyway.” We do want it and know that we have staked everything on it and that the path of the personal calling is no easier than any other path, except that our whole heart is in this journey. Then, we warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the universe is conspiring in our favor, even though we may not understand how. ”

“I ask myself: are defeats necessary?”

“Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for our dream, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you do. Everyone has dreams, big or small. Is it worth fighting to achieve them with the risk of failure? Absolutely.

Never give up.

 

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