Re-reading this book- but this time it is helping me a lot better than it did on the first read, just like the way reciting “Karmanye Vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana…” means a little different experience at each phase in life.
A lot of questions were answered in a metaphoricalway and could relate… Reading about this shepherd, think of who are my Sheep, who’s my Alchemist, who’s my crystal merchant , my englishman… and Fatima.
A silence contemplation reflecting these thoughts could solve the puzzles of life.
“Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
By saying something similar to this meaning, thank you dad, you made me move forward when I was resisting the natural path.
“Creatures like the sheep, that are used to traveling, know about moving on.”
“Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force”
“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of people are connected, and are able to know everything, because it’s all written there”
:Know that one thing by knowing which everything become known.
“People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.”
“His way isn’t the same as mine, not mine as his. But we’re both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that”
“Eat when it’s time to eat. And move along when it’s time to move along”
“It would be impossible to be effective in battle if one knew that he was fated to die”
Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?
“Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you’re thinking about life and about the world. You will never be able to escape from your heart”
I’m sure i will come back to reading this book again at some point, and what I pickup and how i interpret certainly would have changed, but at the core, its ‘All things are same’. Life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny.
“But this payment goes well beyond my generosity”, the monk responded.
“Don’t say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time”
“Maktub”
