inbox wisdom.

"Whenever we do something that fills us with enthusiasm, we are following our legend. However, we don’t all have the courage to confront our own dream.

Why?

There are four obstacles: First: we are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. … If we have the courage to disinter dream, we are then faced by the second obstacle: love. We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. …Once we have accepted that love is a stimulus, we come up against the third obstacle: fear of the defeats we will meet on the path. … Then comes the fourth obstacle: the fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives.… But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here."


a part of the introduction from the alchemist by paulo coelho.i love it.and for some reason what you wrote reminded me of it.
&
esp. the love part.
love never enslaves us, it supports us.


this was in my myspace inbox after i posted a bulletin in the wee early hours of the morning, alone in the computer lab. i read it the next day. it is probably the most comforting ( and substantial ) literary piece of work that's been shared with me in a while.



thanks greci.