CATEGORY: PLUM SPORT DATE: FEBRUARY 3, 2020
With a steaming mug of hot lemon water near my yoga mat, it is flexibility I seek.
Using love alchemy, quantitatively speaking, you’ve got this, of course y’all know this.
How brilliant of Paulo Coelho in his marvelous book The Alchemist to use the words “Personal Legend”. Describing one’s dream, mission, purpose and aspiration which of course is in one’s own heart legend; also it’s what you’ve always wanted to accomplish since you could remember that all things were and are possible which of course is one’s own personal divine story.
What I love about Santiago, the protagonist on this inspiring journey, is his humble beginnings and his striving to understand omens, those divine messages and how they might provide meaning to the why, how, where and when to get after it, is really the story of each of us.
We’re born in a particular part of the world with set social mores that can diversify and divide us from our neighbor. Seemingly out-of-the-blue, a smell, a sound or something from nature stirs our heart, a curiosity perhaps of how great things can be, and who or what treasure is around and out “there”, using humanities delightful tool the curiosity-fulcrum, pushes us past our set personal boundaries.
When we look outside ourselves, going to-and-fro, we literally try so hard to be an alchemist, trying to turn lower-valued things into higher-valued things, trying to find solid proof of the philosophers stone and that cure-all fountain of youth liquid, the elixir of life, not understanding what or where the true treasure is.
The ultimate treasure to be found by you, the Master Worker, resides wherever your heart is, where love is; Maktub, yes “love is written,” beautifully handwritten love alchemy. When we discover we are already a LOVE ALCHEMIST in this Soul of the World, Soul of the Universe…it changes everything!
What of the elixir Uisce beatha? Only if you want to find hair on your chest!
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