Liane Benedict

I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked in rooms or books written in a very foreign language.  Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer…

~Rainer Maria Rilke

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned, so we may have the life that is waiting for us.

~ E.M Forster

I think it is true that we make our way through our world believing that happiness is only possible if all we have planned or believe we are supposed to accomplish becomes reality. And when it does not happen we feel we have failed, we feel that happiness eludes us…and we dwell on what should have been, what might be someday…

I did not plan for multiple sclerosis. I did not plan on a lot of the things that have appeared along my path…but this one was certainly not even in the realm of possibilities, or so I thought.  But that is the life that is waiting for me and I am embracing it with open arms!  And its okay.  Its not who I am, its just a part of the path.  Everything, absolutely everything in my life has brought me to this point and it is where I want to be. Not because everything I planned really happened, but because it didn’t happen.  What I have now before me is an amazingly open path upon which I can continue to grow and learn and experience.  And that is really freakin awesome!  MS won’t change my journey, its just part of the journey that is waiting for me…

Someone very special to me shared the notion of a relationship being “holistic”.  With your soul mate you find a holistic connection that is simply beyond words. Nothing is missing. No gaps, no barriers. In each other you have everything. With each other you help the other become whole. How incredible is that?!? I have been told before that wanting this and nothing less was idealistic, not possible and if I continued to seek this I would always be disappointed. I beg to differ…

And so a friend posted a quote today that is quite simple in presentation, yet the challenge is realizing this in our journey…

If you become whole, everything will come to you.

Tao Te Ching.

How does one become whole? First you must recognize that nothing outside of you will make you whole…then your real journey  begins…

One of my favorite authors is Paulo Coelho. Read and enjoy his work as I have!  The first book of his I read was The Alchemist. Below are just a couple of quotes from some of his books…

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself in our enthusiasm for the task.

Every day, God gives us, as well as the sun, a moment when it is possible to change anything that is causing us unhappiness. The magic moment is the moment when a “yes” or a “no” can change our whole existence. Every day, we try to pretend that we do not see that moment, that it does not exist, that today is the same as yesterday and that tomorrow will be the same too. However, anyone who pays close attention to his day will discover the magic moment. It might be hidden in the instant that we put the key in the door in the morning, in the moment of silence after supper, in the thousand and one things that appear to us to be the same. This moment exists, a moment in which all the strength of the stars flows through us and allows us to perform miracles.

Paulo Coelho

A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that person we’re safe in our own paradise.  Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.

Richard Bach