Trying to initiate a conversation
September 19, 2005This book truely touches my inner side, The Zahir I mean. I can relate to the obsession he talks about, erasing personal history by telling our stories and hence the need for conversations and the side effects of oppression. He talks about the acomodador or giving-up point and allow me to quote him here:
“there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particular bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards out of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shamen must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his whole life and find out where it occurred.”
Currently listening to Drugs or Me-Jimmy Eat World
There you go, my blabbering is over and another sleepless night has just began.
Tags: The zahir, Paulo Coelho
