From here and there to everywhere

An American tourist went to Cairo to visit the famous Polish rabbi Hafez Ayim. The tourist was surprised to see that the rabbi lived in a simple, book-lined room, in which the only pieces of furniture were a table and a bench.

‘Rabbi, where’s all your furniture?’ asked the tourist.

‘Why, where’s yours?’ retorted Hafez.

‘Mine? But I’m just passing through.’

‘So am I,’ said the rabbi.

- Paulo Coelho -



“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

- Henry Miller -



You have to know, not fear, that someday you are going to die. Until you know that and embrace that, you are useless.

- Fight Club the movie -



‘Blessed is he who gives his children wings and roots,’ says a proverb.

We need roots. There is a place in the world where we are born, where we learn a language, where we discover how our ancestors overcame their problems. At a given point, we become responsible for that place.

We need wings. They show us the endless horizons of the imagination, they carry us towards our dreams, they lead us to distant places. They are the wings that allow us to know the roots of our fellow human beings and to learn from them.

Blessed is he who has wings and roots, and wretched is he who only has one of the two.

- Paulo Coelho -



Elämän perusyksikkö on toisista huolehtiminen. Ja sellaisessa elämässä on aina rakkautta.

- Paavo Westerberg -



“life is what happens when you are busy making plans”

- John Lennon -



I do believe that a person has a personal legend to fulfill - and independent of any mass media, you know what to do. What is a personal legend? It is the reason why we are alive.

We have dreams, that are not necessarily the dreams that our parents, or society has for us. So, we must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives. The message in “Veronika decides to die” is that: dare to be different. You are unique, and you have to accept you as you are, instead of trying to repeat other people’s destinies or patterns. Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not. Normality is the capacity to express your feelings. From the moment that you don’t fear to share your heart, you are a free person.

- Paulo Coelho -



Jos me olemme valppaita, mielemme tekee työn puolestamme, ja kertoo kyllä vastauksetkin, kun niiden aika on. Ja jos ei kerro, kysymys oli todennäköisesti väärin muotoiltu?

- Paavo Westerberg -



"Mennessä näkee tuleeko kaivoon vettä"

- Isosisko Huuhtanen -