I absolutely adore The Zahir by Paulo Coelho, and every time I leaf through the book, I always find something profound that he writes that I can instantly relate to. So much so that if you happen to see a copy of my book, you’ll find rabbit-ears all around.

The following’s another excerpt from the book that I’d like to share 🙂

The accomodador, or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from the giving up point and, to do so, he must review his whole life and find out where it occured.

Food for thought.

PS: Accomodador is a word shamans that practice “magic” in Northern Mexico use to describe a state of well, giving up, that they find themselves in.