The Good Fight...

I know I said it was bedtime, but I meant to do this earlier and the Biggest Loser distracted me.

I have always been a huge Paulo Coelho fan.  He's a brilliant author.  It just so happens the book I'm reading right now, The Pilgrimage, is exactly what I need to be reading - better than the Alchemist.  I want to share part of it.

"The Road you are traveling is the Road of power, and only the exercises having to do with power will be taught to you.  The journey, which prior to this was torture because all you wanted to do was get there, is not beginning to become a pleasure.  It is the pleasure of searching and the pleasure of an adventure.  You are nourishing something that very important - your dreams."

"We must never stop dreaming.  Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.  Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming.  If we don't, our soul dies..."

"The good fight is the one we fight because our heart asks it of us..."

"The good fight is the one that's fought in the name of our dreams.  When we're young and our dreams first explode inside us with all of their force, we are very courageous, but we haven't yet learned how to fight.  With great effort, we learn how to fight, but by then we no longer have the courage to go into combat.  So we turn against ourselves and do battle within.  We become our own worst enemy.  We say that our dreams were childish, or too difficult to realize, or the result of our not having known enough about life.  We kill our dreams because we are afraid to fight the good fight."

"we always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road we have become accustomed to."

For dreams and journeys, keep fighting the good fight...