I started this post months ago........am completing it on the 17th May 2009 from the office in the neighbouring town where I am for a night out of work.
I was reading this wonderful fiction by Paulo Coehlo,The Witch of Portobello....
This is a story of a young woman who is restless over-energetic and enthusiastic in heart, mind and spirit. Her life is about a summary of being orphaned by her own mother, being adopted, falling in love, marriage, becoming a mother, getting a divorce, exploring herself in her loneliness and isolation, falling in love again, being popular(rather unpopular) and finally being killed(though its later revealed that she's alive and happy)
However, this is not what the story really is about. The real story if about an individual who is actually looking and exploring for her real self. Her real self which is in harmony with the passion and love for life......the passion to live, to excel and to love and share what she's learnt.
Its not about living quantity for her, rather living quality. At one end, while she's consciously and continuously upset about finding her roots with the mother who gave birth to her and abandoned her........Its a constant quest to find her actual/real soul mate(Paulo doesn't use this word here though). A constant quest to realize God in whatever she does......... be it love, prayer, dance, work or even something as simple as calligraphy.
And when she learns the secrets...........she yearns to share them with those who don't........and the result is that her restlessness increases endlessly. The effect is that she's recognized as a witch who's young, charming, knowledgeable and yet destructive.
She realizes that her own presence is going to cause a lot of destructive effect on a lot of people whom she really loves and cares about........ So, with her new boyfriend who's in the Scotland Yard, she fakes out her own death and finally settles in a cool personal life.
This is an amazing and intriguing journey of a young woman, who goes through a lot of changes and ups and downs in her life, learning and doing everything she can, simply to find harmony of her self with her surroundings.
From praying with interruptions in music in a Chapel.......cursing the Chapel and the God.........dancing to the music of desert............teaching it to her colleagues in the Bank........selling land in Egypt, and learning calligraphy..........Going to Romania to find her mother who gave her birth and abandoned her.........finding her..........realising the basics of the wiccan religion and the fact that she's a witch herself in true essence.......coming back and teaching what she knows and also what she doesn't to all the people who are really interested.............to FINALLY dance OUT OF rhythm, and allowing The Divine Mother to realise in her!!
I was reading this wonderful fiction by Paulo Coehlo,The Witch of Portobello....
This is a story of a young woman who is restless over-energetic and enthusiastic in heart, mind and spirit. Her life is about a summary of being orphaned by her own mother, being adopted, falling in love, marriage, becoming a mother, getting a divorce, exploring herself in her loneliness and isolation, falling in love again, being popular(rather unpopular) and finally being killed(though its later revealed that she's alive and happy)
However, this is not what the story really is about. The real story if about an individual who is actually looking and exploring for her real self. Her real self which is in harmony with the passion and love for life......the passion to live, to excel and to love and share what she's learnt.
Its not about living quantity for her, rather living quality. At one end, while she's consciously and continuously upset about finding her roots with the mother who gave birth to her and abandoned her........Its a constant quest to find her actual/real soul mate(Paulo doesn't use this word here though). A constant quest to realize God in whatever she does......... be it love, prayer, dance, work or even something as simple as calligraphy.
And when she learns the secrets...........she yearns to share them with those who don't........and the result is that her restlessness increases endlessly. The effect is that she's recognized as a witch who's young, charming, knowledgeable and yet destructive.
She realizes that her own presence is going to cause a lot of destructive effect on a lot of people whom she really loves and cares about........ So, with her new boyfriend who's in the Scotland Yard, she fakes out her own death and finally settles in a cool personal life.
This is an amazing and intriguing journey of a young woman, who goes through a lot of changes and ups and downs in her life, learning and doing everything she can, simply to find harmony of her self with her surroundings.
From praying with interruptions in music in a Chapel.......cursing the Chapel and the God.........dancing to the music of desert............teaching it to her colleagues in the Bank........selling land in Egypt, and learning calligraphy..........Going to Romania to find her mother who gave her birth and abandoned her.........finding her..........realising the basics of the wiccan religion and the fact that she's a witch herself in true essence.......coming back and teaching what she knows and also what she doesn't to all the people who are really interested.............to FINALLY dance OUT OF rhythm, and allowing The Divine Mother to realise in her!!
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