You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we
allow the unexpected to happen.
Every day, God gives us the sun—and also one moment in which we have the ability to
change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven’t
perceived that moment, that it doesn’t exist—that today is the same as yesterday and will
be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they
will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing
something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the
quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same
to us. But that moment exists—a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part
of us and enables us to perform miracles.
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to
change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will
have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments—but all of this is
transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride
andfaith at the journey we have taken.
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be
disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have
a dream to follow. But when that person looks back—and at some point everyone looks
back—she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God
planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You
buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your
heritage: the certainty that you wasted your life”
Pitiful are the people who must realize this. Because when they are finally able to believe
in miracles, their life’s magic moments will have already passed them by.
allow the unexpected to happen.
Every day, God gives us the sun—and also one moment in which we have the ability to
change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven’t
perceived that moment, that it doesn’t exist—that today is the same as yesterday and will
be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they
will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing
something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the
quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same
to us. But that moment exists—a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part
of us and enables us to perform miracles.
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to
change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will
have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments—but all of this is
transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride
andfaith at the journey we have taken.
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be
disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have
a dream to follow. But when that person looks back—and at some point everyone looks
back—she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God
planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You
buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your
heritage: the certainty that you wasted your life”
Pitiful are the people who must realize this. Because when they are finally able to believe
in miracles, their life’s magic moments will have already passed them by.
By The River Piedra I sat down and wept.
