TIME, WATER, FIRE.
In the beginning, many years ago, I could not understand that was the way things were. Since then, repeated occasions taught me one of the strangest lessons of Life: what sometimes looks evil and brings pain, suffering and anguish, reveals itself, as time goes by, as the purest source of our happiness!
The greatest treasure, in my life, is my Son. He is the reason and origin of my happiness. Nevertheless, for me to meet him again, many years of search were needed as well as many moments of perplexity as I faced situations that, although looking as tragic obstacles, were only providential help that was driving me to the right way and would, at the end, allow me to find him.
So, today, I thank people that I even detested when they were nothing but instruments of destiny, as I ignored their true role in my life. People that, when trying to be evil were, in fact, helping me to find Good.
The purposes of things that happen to us, in Life, are very strange indeed. Only distance in time allows us to see clearly what really happened, not what seemed to be happening, then. After all, if one is in the middle of the fire, burning and suffering, can not have the necessary serenity to grasp how the fire came to be and how to extinguish it.
Time, as the waters of a river, knows where it came from and where it is going to. As for us, we only find out such things after we learn to accept and understand that, as we are being taken by the waters of Time, we have time to comprehend where we are being taken to and why.
To be able to see Life through the eyes of Truth we have to close our eyes to the appearances of what is happening, what only seems to be happening. And wait. Until the waters appease and the fire is extinguished.
(Barcelona, Spain)
THE SORCERER' STONE
In the tale heard more than forty years ago, a man who had been searching for the Magic Stone – the one that would transform in gold anything it touched – had it at one time in his hands and, without noticing it, threw it away, blinded by the obsession to find it.
I heard the lesson taught and kept it well. When searching for my dreams, on the roads – many – I walked since then, I took care so that the same would not happen to me.
Each person seeks in Life for the riches believed to make him/her happy. For some, Fortune lays in gold, money, belongings.
Others seem to believe that Power and Fame will transform their existences in golden dreams, forever.
There are, finally, those who mine Knowledge and Understanding within books and people, sure that one can not loose only what can not be touched.
In fact, each person has his/her own Sorcerer' Stone since Happiness is entirely personal. As for me, I find it, each moment, by mining myself, people and books, learning with their history, tales and experiences, understanding above all that each moment, meeting, smile or tear brings in itself a glint of the Sorcerer' Stone.
The awareness that each instant in Life bears the capacity of making us happy depending on how it is touched by our hearts and minds, this is "my" Sorcerer' Stone.
(Barcelona, 13.3.2005)