We celebrated a really wonderful Christmas with my husband’s extended family. His Aunty put on a lovely Christmas dinner (with everyone contributing to the meal) and played some festive games like pass the parcel and a treasure hunt for the kids. For the adults we had Secret Santa, with the option this year to trade our gift for another that had been opened… it was a hoot!
Then on Boxing Day I developed a sore throat, which got worse throughout the day until it felt like razors that night. During the night I had a fever, and right through the following day I felt like doing nothing at all. It’s a horrible state to find myself in -- the middle of summer, when daughter 1 has just been given a surf board and can’t wait to get out and learn to use it. Daughter 2 wanted to go to the beach to try out her new bucket-and-spade set which came with an awesome watering can…… Mum felt like a party pooper.
So, I grabbed a book that has been on my must-read-again list and took it to the beach to lie in the sand while the kids and Husband played. The book was the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. And reading it now was a revelation. The last time I read it was about 15 years ago, and while I got the general gist of the moral of the story I didn’t pick up nearly enough of the messages along the way.
Just so I don’t miss and forget them again, I’ve listed them here:
- It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting
- The world’s greatest lie is that at a certain point in our life we lose control of what’s happening to us and our lives become controlled by fate.
- Everyone when they are young knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives everything is clear, everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream and to yearn for what they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it is impossible for them to realise their destiny.
- Whoever you are, and whatever it is you do when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.
- People are capable, at any time of their lives, of doing what they dream of.
- There is a force that wants you to realise your destiny. It whets your appetite with a taste of success.
- God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens.
- When you want something, the entire universe conspires to helping you to achieve it.
- You must always know what it is you want
- There is a language in the world that everyone understands. It is the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose and as part of a search of something believed in and desired
- Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
- Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.
- We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
- If you pay attention to the present you can improve upon it. And if you improve on the present, then what comes later will also be better.
- If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.
- People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams because they feel they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.
- Before a dream is realised, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. That’s the point at which most people give up. Every search begins with beginners luck and every search ends with the victor being severely tested.
- There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve – the fear of failure.
Working out what one’s destiny and purpose for life is can be a difficult thing. To be honest I don’t know that I have found mine yet, although I’m sure my purpose has something to do with being a Mum, a wife and living in the beautiful beachside city of Perth. I definitely believe in omens – the year I met my husband I had birds poo on me on three separate occasions! Before the three occasions, this had never happened to me before and has never happened to me since (thankfully!).
Have you had any experiences with Omens that have lead you along a certain path of life? Do you feel as though the life your living is the one that you’ve been destined for? I’d love to hear your experiences – please send me a post or write me an email at livewelllivesmart@gmail.com
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