Finding your life treasures
Paulo Coelho in his novel The Alchemist wrote
“Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there. Wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.”
It is a simple, but powerful statement. Yet it is much more difficult to follow than it seems. Listening to your heart is not an easy thing. For very often we think we are doing it, but we are actually listening to the layers of values, ideas and practices that we have learned in the past. They look like our feelings, our intuition, but they are not. Other times we are captured by our fear, which muffles what the heart has to say. Listening to your heart is to go beyond the learned values and the fear, and feel what your intuition is telling you. The communication with it doesn’t come through the language, it is not logical, but through your emotions.
Sometimes in life we are presented with rare opportunities that can make our life a special experience. These are life treasures. Yet, very often we don’t see them as such, and we lose them. We miss these opportunities because we haven’t listened to our heart, to what our deep emotions, to what our intuition is telling us. Either because we cynically rationalize them, we convince ourselves that treasures, these special encounters that can make our life different, do not exist, that they are never what they seem. Or because we are afraid, fear tells us that these treasures hide something bad in then, that sooner or later they will bring us pain.
I believe life treasures are rare, but do exist. The only way to recognize them is by feeling how our heart pulls us towards them with a strong force our mind once and again tries to drown in the sea of reason and fear. Admittedly, there are always risks in seizing the opportunity they offer to us, but I also believe that to get the best things in life we always need to take risks. This is what makes life worth living.
Source: http://www.aribo.eu/2010/05/take-the-risk-listen-to-your-heart/
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