Hippie

by Paulo Coelho

Fight because you need to fight, because you’re facing a battle. Fight because you are at peace with the universe, with the planets, the suns that explode and the stars that shrink and flare out forever. Fight to fulfill your destiny, without giving thought to gain or profit, losses or stratagems, victories or defeats. Seek not your own gratification, but that of the Supreme Love who offers nothing beyond a glimmering contact with the Cosmos and thus demands an act of complete devotion—without doubts, without questions, love for love’s sake and nothing else. A love that owes nothing to anyone, that has no obligations, that finds joy in simple existence and the freedom to express itself.

God’s love is stronger than the reasons that lead us to Him. Paulo believed this with every fiber of his soul. God’s power is with us at every moment, and courage is required to let it into our minds, our feelings, our breath—courage is required to change our minds when we realize that we are merely instruments of His will, and it is His will we ought to fulfill.