The journey of the soul.....in our world that is obsessed with success
and images of health and competence and unblemished resumes....the
trials of the soul in this terrestrial continuum has purpose only the
angels can fathom and appreciate....
I wrote this as response to P. Coehlo's remembrance of his youthful trials...."Every day of my youth was very difficult. I was three times in a mental institution, I was arrested and tortured by the paramilitary in Brazil. And yet, when I remember it now, those were very interesting years. Because I was young, and I was overcoming all obstacles.", P. Coehlo.
Jewish have a saying that in order to rise to the top, one must descend to the bottom.....In his youthful trials, while his peers were riding the waves of success and functionality, being behind the walls of mental institution and prison, is a taboo to the secular gaze; I am "sure" even Paulo cursed himself..he might be profoundly sadden to feel that his mother is sadden by his lot.....
I remember a renowned christian author once wrote that "there is greatness in being, and there is success in doing"; the younger Coehlo, in retrospect was in the state of being....like Gandhi's journey of being....its never easy.....
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