The Moment

Paulo Coelho {author of The Alchemist} has a blog which includes video chats from him. Very cool. I love this post. It is one of those posts to print out and paste in a journal.

I've been thinking about this quote from it for days now.

" We have to take risks. We can only truly understand the miracle of life when we let the unexpected manifest itself.

Every day – together with the sun – God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day we try to pretend that we don’t realize that moment, that it doesn’t exist, that today is just the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if you pay attention, you can discover the magic instant. It may be hiding at the moment when we put the key in the door in the morning, in the silence right after dinner, in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. This moment exists – a moment when all the strength of the stars passes through us and lets us work miracles."

-Paulo Coelho
6.24.09