Quote from Paul Coelho's Eleven Minutes:
Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things in its path.
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvellous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has ruined everything.
Keping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know.
Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things in its path.
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvellous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has ruined everything.
Keping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know.
posted by Unknown at 7:00 AM
11 Comments:
hi,hello ...how r u ???...writing after a looong time...wasnt comimg online all these days..hope u r fit n fine...healthy, happy and sweet as ever...take care......and haa...belated happy Valentines day to u..Bye!
Somehow I've never been able to bring myself to agree with Paulo Coelho. The Alchemist was enough to make me switch off him forever.
"...hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness."
Strange.
You only really do something when you are passionate about it. And then no matter how things turn out, you at least have the satisfaction of having given it your best shot. How we ascribe the success or the failure to someone else and not to ourselves is something that doesnt really compile for me.
"Keping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?"
The latter... at least that way you do something with your life.
Khair... happy blogging :)
"No one wants their life thrown into chaos".
ture,but we do tend to entangle ourselves into trouble.
anyways, i just posted a answer to ur question in ur earlier blog.
i thought atleast today u would write something here....atleast wish ur friends for holi...as u do on all the festivals..
* HAPPY HOLI NIKI!!*
* HAPPY HOLI NIKI!!*
Anonymous
Wish you the same!
AF
Sorry, mate! Have been silent lately. Belated wishes to you, too.
Btw, how are u doing, health wise?
Abhishek
Our lives are full of holes - Yet isn’t it a fact that despite the holes punctured into our dreams, ambitions, plans – life is even sweeter because of it? Tell me how our dreams can ever take shape without having to go through the hurdle, impediment, obstacle or problem first?
Sunny
What is life if it was all ease and comfort, soft and predictable?!
I feel you should keep passions at bay - I know of no other way to bring out to the fore a man’s inherent intelligence, talent, and skill at problem-solving than to present him with tough problems.
AF
Too late to wish you for Valentines! :-(. But I hope you had a blast.
Can we know the reason behind the lack of activity here?
-Sheetal.
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