Two messages.
One coming from Suzanne and the other from Susan.
Dear Bruno,
I opened my email after you left and found the following message in my inbox. On reading it it resonated very strongly with me for there is a connection between these words and your visit of this morning. I am aware that my dog Guado is the catelist of something greater and it is up to me to take up this opportunity and "Stop being who I was, and change into who I am." As the saying goes - when you're ready the teacher will appear...So thank you for your insights and guidance, may I be able to fully digest and integrate them!
With gratitude.
Suzanne (BTW not Susan but SuZanne :)
Closing Cycles - Paulo Coelho
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end.
If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the
happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through.
Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters - whatever name we give it,
what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.
Did you lose your job?
Has a loving relationship come to an end?
Did you leave your parents' house?
Gone to live abroad?
Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden?
You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened.
You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that.
But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill.
None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us.
What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back. Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away.
That is why it is so important (however painful it may be) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.
Let things go.
Release them.
Detach yourself from them.
Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose.
Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.
Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.
Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the "ideal moment."
Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back.
Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important.
Closing cycles.
Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust.
Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.
Walk/Caminata Rafol d'Almunia 05.06.2011
Bruno
On Sunday we can walk from Rafol de Almumia. We will meet at the Piscina bar and we can walk from there and obviously return for drinks/breakfast for those who wish. The walk will be just over one hour through orange groves with the first 15/20 mins on a road where dogs will need to be close to their partners due to cars using this road.
To find the Piscina bar in Rafol people coming from Sagra will need to pass the village and then turn left and head back into the village. Then take the next right. You will see the Piscina bar on your right down a nice pasaeo however to get to the car park you will need to carry on to the junction turn right and immediately right again. This takes you to the car park at the back of the bar. Similarily for those coming from Benimeli they will need to turn right into the village at the start of the village and follow the same directions
If you need anything else please let me know.
Regards
Susan
Sent from my iPhone with love
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