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Enso the Enduring Power of Love
2017An inspirational novel about possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
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Pride and Intentions
2021Set in beautiful castles in the middle of the twentieth century, this is a story about Doris Rose the daughter of an English oligarch who cannot forget the poor young man who stole her heart a long time ago when her parents forcefully separated them.
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But love has the power to turn the dark tragedy of their past into a miracle.
Reborn as one of the richest men in England, the former poor boy from her childhood returns to her parents' lives...
Morally marred by lies, deception and secrets from her parents' past, the former mistress of Magnolia Castle, Doris Rose, is forced to abandon her wealth and join the working class. She blames the very man she secretly loves for her misfortune.
The oligarch's plans and the pride of the girl who has lost everything become the only things that tie two people who secretly love one another.
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc (June 16, 2021)
Publication date: June 16, 2021
Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Happiness, and Success. An inspiring novel about the incredible power of the human heart, about our ingenious abilities to understand the people and the world around us.After her mother's death, Po closes all doors to the outside world, which are already scarce in her life. Exactly at the moment when she needs salvation, an old man enters her life. Denver is a descendant of an ancient discipline, which, according to the legend, can make a man immortal. However, he has one more goal... To entice her to go on a journey with him, Denver promises to help Po find the elixir which returns eyesight. On that journey, she begins to reveal one of the greatest mysteries of mankind. People who are able to see with their physical eyes are actually blind!
But love has the power to turn the dark tragedy of their past into a miracle.
Reborn as one of the richest men in England, the former poor boy from her childhood returns to her parents' lives...
Morally marred by lies, deception and secrets from her parents' past, the former mistress of Magnolia Castle, Doris Rose, is forced to abandon her wealth and join the working class. She blames the very man she secretly loves for her misfortune.
The oligarch's plans and the pride of the girl who has lost everything become the only things that tie two people who secretly love one another.
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press, Inc (June 16, 2021)
Publication date: June 16, 2021
But can you lose something you believe in? The thing that gives you the strength to live, the very thing you breathe for? Can it be lost forever if it had built you, pushed you into the world of love, revealed the limits of shame, and overcoming unfulfilled desires? Can you lose what you don’t want to give up, what you are afraid of but at the same time wish to come true? Can it be lost forever if you don’t know how to lose?
It unfolded as it was meant to be. Although it was difficult for me to accept that I will no longer be able to visit Magnolia as often as earlier, I was sure of one thing: I will start a whole new life! A life in which false hopes about a stronger relationship will not be planned as a gift but will develop naturally and gradually.
Without my conscious will, the train seemed to carry the thoughts of Victor somewhere far away into memory. He had a one-way ticket and that didn’t give me peace. Deep inside, I felt that it wasn’t over, that we will meet at least once again, at some moment in life, that we will look each other in the eye and revive our honest and innocent childhood expressions. I didn’t want to believe that the disease took him. Can disease take an innocent, good, honest man who didn’t yet taste life’s happiness?
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GoodReads
'Enso' is a beautifully written book that tells the story of a blind woman, which you don't see in many books, who embarks on a journey to gain knowledge and restore her sight. When reading the book you get to explore the philosophy of humans. It's a fun read and gives inspiration to the reader and my interpretation of this story is that no matter what, you can find confidence within yourself and not be ashamed of a disability - own it instead. I would recommend 'Enso' to anyone who needs an inspirational or light read.
Amazon
Dushica's style is unique and poetic, and the story is beautiful and motivational. Helped me in a really difficult period.
Amazon
On the path of self-knowledge, it's difficult to cast off doubts. On the path of learning it's even more difficult‒ to understand ourselves. ENSO is a lesson of love to ward ourselves. It's a call for all of us to look within our own boundaries, to embrace our souls and to understand once more the world around them. It is a book to which we will, in order to improve our lives, always gladly return.
GoodReads
"Enso is a book about memories, a book of allegory, a book for thought. Popular, new, interesting. The acuteness of perception gives a 'timelessness' to events - the breath of ancient cultures of the East and modern West flows through the book. It can be recommended to a wide range of readers. A novel that will awaken your optimistic attitude toward the world and your own life."
Amazon
A beautiful fairy tale about a young man who is getting to know himself and the world around him.
GoodReads
This is my first time reading this author, but I know it won't be my last. I started this book, expecting it to be a Pride and Prejudice retelling. It was so much more! It was beautifully written with elements of Pride and Prejudice, definitely, but it was also similar in theme to the Notebook. Pride and Intentions is such a bittersweet tale of love and hate and the thin line between the two, of true friendships and false friends, and of how parents can leave the most devastingly lasting consequences with their children.This story is such a tale, as told by Doris to her granddaughter. I loved it, but I had so much more that I wanted to know of Doris and her life with her family ---especially once she had found her one true love. I know that it is a very special book when I tell my husband about the book and he asks me what is happening in the book as I read. WARNING: Keep a box of tissue close by, though.
Amazon
This book is AMAZING! A heartwarming, and yet heartbreaking story about a young love shared between two wonderful people… I believe that Pride and intentions is one of those books that will be hailed as one of the greatest love stories ever told. I recommend it to anyone who likes a good romantic story like «The Notebook», «Pride Prejudice» or «North and South».
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I read this book because my sister loved it and this is my favorite love story ever!!! It is just wonderful and beautiful written saga. The way Doris and Victor’s love for each other just spills out of the pages is just magical. Does such true love really exist? I really want to believe in that!
P.S. The translation is very good! I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in reading realistic fictional love stories.
Amazon
Truly a very good read! It's a combination of true love , courage to be true to one's self and brave enough to act on the inner intuiscion.
Amazon
A truly intriguing story of a love that is eternal, fraught with deception in the name of love. Beautifully written and hard to put down.
GoodReads
Learning to love and to be true to oneself, all are entwined in this excellent story that is filled with deep thought of a young woman and the suspense of finding just the right mate. I need to read it again!
Amazon
A beautiful tale of life and love. As this is a translation I can now understand the simple errors that a good editor will catch. Otherwise it was beautifully written with a special, delicate flavor.
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Heart rendering wisdom of spiritual awakening. Miraculous enlightening with the opening of the heart and appreciation of all that is.
GoodReads
I liked that Dushica decided to use this allegorical method to convey her philosophy to the world. Antonio’s quest reminds me of other philosophical sagas, such as The Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan), in which the point of the hero’s journey is about the discovery of truth more than the final destination. She also alludes to the gospel near the beginning of the book, and though Jesus is never mentioned by name, it is clear he is the “man of love” referred to, and who is pointed to as an example to live by.
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The story draws some parallels to Pride and Prejudice; the main characters bear some resemblance to Darcy and Elizabeth, and some of the side characters take on roles that echo Austen’s blueprint. But Pride and Intentions is not simply a retelling of Austen’s story-- it is its own original masterpiece.
Amazon
A philosophical tale, this story uses the adventures of a young man named Antonio to explore the heart of mankind. Antonio is a spirited orphan whose adoptive father teaches him many things about love, and tells him that he has built a bridge greater than the Ponte Vecchio and learned its secret. Antonio decides he too wishes to build a bridge that will make his father proud. Reaching manhood, he sets off to explore the world. At each new place, he finds work, meets new friends, and learns new truths about himself and about the humans around him. Periodically, he will commune with nature, sometimes taking on the form of the nature he is speaking to; a seagull, a wave, a tree, an eagle. He also encounters the personifications of happiness, fear, pride, malice, victory, and love and talks with each of them to uncover new revelation. After 20 years of exploring and working to save money to build his bridge, Antonio finally decides to return home to see his father and begin work on his bridge. But, a series of events leaves him penniless, all his hard work for naught. Will Antonio discover the secret to building his bridge?
ENSO
"Enso is a book about memories, a book of allegory, a book for thought. Popular, new, interesting. The acuteness of perception gives a 'timelessness' to events - the breath of ancient cultures of the East and modern West flows through the book. It can be recommended to a wide range of readers. A novel that will awaken your optimistic attitude toward the world and your own life."
Amanda Kai
Romeo and Juliet meets Pride and Prejudice.
“Now I know that everything was supposed to happen just the way it did, because if it didn’t, maybe I wouldn’t have spent the rest of my life in the most beautiful fairy tale with your grandfather.”
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“There are people who can not see with their physical eyes, but they see through the mind.Such people can see the live and dead forms in all their colors, movements and strength.They surpass all boundaries, rules, space and time.They live in the eternity of the living energies that come from an empty and pure space, from which wonders occur. If these people could see with their physical eyes too‒they would have a divine nature...”
“− The world is an everlasting change in motion, in which what you knew yesterday can become an illusion in one moment. ‒ The old man moved a few steps away, folded his hands behind his back, and turned to the boy again. ‒ Having said that, there is one unique chance to find out all about the world. But there is a specific condition for that.
− What is it?
− You must become a wind!”
“− Don’t be ridiculous. Stop thinking about yourself. After all, you turned yourself into a bird because you wanted to hear my speech. And as a bird you can more easily understand my language. Many people want to understand it, but they don’t succeed because they don’t know how to turn into a bird. They look at the bird but don’t see a seagull that has something to tell them. They are too preoccupied with the role of a man. They admire his flight without wondering why the seagull is, right at this moment, flying his most beautiful flight before their eyes...”
“− Life is a bridge, build it inside yourself. But before you take a step, lay the foundations for the first supporting pillar, and when you’ve crossed it, lay foundations for the remaining pillars so that others can walk on that bridge!”
“− You have nothing to fear from time and freedom. They are incompatible, and things that are incompatible cancel each other out. If you count the time, you are without freedom, if you are free, time no longer exists.”
Mr. Brown was, despite his successful business and material wealth, unhappy and imprisoned in his unique deep world into which he didn’t let anyone enter. That dark, powerful world will later touch my private life...
You don’t fall in love with a man, you don’t fall in love with a place, but in the feeling that pleasantly overcomes you when you are with that man. You grow to love it so much that you don’t want to part with that feeling afterward.
Time began taking its toll. You can fight everything, except time. It carries into oblivion even things that made you shed tears and made you laugh, leaving behind only sparks of reflexes that awaken when you recall the moment that once existed.
“I’m not afraid of death, but of my funeral. I wouldn’t like it to be an occasion where my girlfriend or wife will shed tears... if I ever have a partner...” He trailed off, lost in thought, and then continued. “Because... love must remain after death, right? It is indestructible, immortal?”
Love is our potpourri, our celebration, our first principle, and there is no greater force or human power that can override its plans and ways. We are guided by love; it is above us and above everything.
Maybe because I had to remind myself of one person, one living being whose heart was beating somewhere far away, and at that moment echoed inside of me. Because I have always felt it as my own and had never forgotten him.
As usual, Mrs. Doris couldn’t get angry. Since her proud nature almost ruined the love of her life a long time ago as well as all the happiness that she experienced after that, she had learned that anger is the most dangerous weapon a person could have.
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BELIEVE IT OR NOTThere are millions of planets in the universe and one of them is called Earth. Beings who call themselves men gave it that name. Details... -
LOVE AS A COMMANDMENTSomewhere in the far West, before the Europeans brought love as a commandment and cornered her natural law, it was believed that man is destined to live with a free spirit, instead of with the spirit trapped within him. Details... -
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How small the chances were that you would be born?Have you ever wondered how small the chances were that you would be born? Details... -
MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS DO NOT STUDY REALITY AS IT REALLY ISEarlier, in the period before the philosopher Euclid, all mathematics was called geometry. Details... -
INTERVIEW the book PRIDE AND INTENTIONSI am so excited to share with you the latest interview about my writing and the book PRIDE AND INTENTIONS (which will soon be available for pre-order by the wonderful publisher "The Wild Rose Press"). Details... -
SECRET OF A BRIDGEIn Tuscany, the most beautiful region of Italy, there’s a curious bridge with a house on it. The bridge’s mystery can’t immediately be appreciated, unlike its shape, since the whole world’s heard about its form, and what the whole world knows is no longer a mystery. Details... -
The truth about our sincere thoughtsOscar Wilde said that if a man wants to know what a woman really thinks, he should observe her and not listen to her. I totally agree with him! Details... -
ORIGINALITYYou know that feeling when you want to write something, design, paint, draw some new design in Corel draw and it doesn’t work? Inspiration does not come! Everything has already been seen but we need originality! Here is one conclusion and a brief explanation. Details... -
THE LIGHT OF TRUTHEven Plato in his “myth of the cave” said that a man who comes out of the cave into the light of truth, only then masters true knowledge. The direct connection with God is realized in the soul of man and not in the world around him. This is a problem that, despite the fact that more than two thousand years have passed since the time of Plato, is still very important for humanity. Details... -
Trust in more when you fall the lowest!A CLUE Details... -
The legend of the young man with two heartsWhen you lose someone you realize just how much that person means...
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YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEEDOnce upon a time in a village there lived a poor girl. She didn’t have nice clothes or jewellery, and she wasn’t satisfied with her appearance. She washed linen for a few wealthy families, and in turn they brought her food. Since she thought that she wasn’t pretty, people started to perceive her in that way. Young girls avoided her, young men passed her by... Details... -
WHAT IF I WINA hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. Details...
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At that time, while in the West such beliefs took root in people’s blood like a plague, in the East of the planet tales of wisdom were born, which thanks to so-called deliberate time became legends for some. Yet, those from the East believed in their legends and turned them into a series of wise disciplines that fed the people spiritually for centuries. Many of these are preserved to this day and are practiced in various parts of the world, but many have been lost or cast aside in the face of the paths people have deliberately chosen. Today we speak about the lost disciplines in the way we would of legends, but there exists a handful of people who practice these to this day, helping their soulmates to fathom the truth of their own inner power.
One such legend relates that in southwest China one self-discipline existed, called the discipline of sages, which could make a man omnipotent. Such a man saw although he could not see, heard though he could not hear. He lived through his internal relations and views, not through the physical body, and therefore he became immortal. The knowledge meant becoming omnipotent, especially when used not only to help oneself, but others.
When the authorities found out about such a powerful discipline, they expelled the entire school from the country to preserve the distinction between worlds. This was the act of the government. One old wise man found the hidden chronicles and, to save them from total destruction, sent them far across pirate-controlled seas to the West. Centuries passed, and the discipline of the self lived and was taught across the whole world. Europeans and the Irish, Portuguese and Tunisians practiced it. Later, through the southernmost point in the world, it came to Central America. Several centuries later, the discipline gained world power. It spoke in the language of the world and humanity. It was powerful because it could make people of all races and colours happy, on all continents. However, there remained just a few who knew of it.
Later, these writings, via an unknown path, appeared in the hands of a famous guru, and he found himself in serious trouble with the authorities. Nevertheless, he sacrificed himself in the name of generations to come, fled to the East and secretly passed the self-discipline on, but only to those who needed help. One of his highly autodidactic descendants was called Denver.
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from the book “ENSO”
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Immanuel Kant said that beautiful art can only be created by geniuses. “Genius is the talent that art prescribes to nature.” He possesses innate mental faculties. The products of the beautiful belong to the genius. Geniuses have imagination, spirit and reason in the “highest” measure.
Did the butterfly that flew past your grandfather when he turned a random glance at your grandmother know about the impact of the coefficient of chance on your life? Or maybe your great-grandfather hoped that 200 years after his death, your great-grandson would realize his dream of building a large tower in a village that would become the center of a megalopolis?
And what if we are all geniuses? Only our movement on this Earth is the creativity of genius. The genius creates in every movement, sigh or hope. The genius is the totality of our goals. The genius is the chain we are connected to, all of us to one. The genius is our thought about the next step and its realization. Every movement, thought, action or written word of yours is a chance to create a better new future.
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Since fine art is not able to give itself rules, and since without these rules art is not possible, fine art is possible only as a creation of genius.
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If we ask ourselves what consciousness is made of, we probably don’t think of anything. But it cannot be composed only of air but of energy. And how many people can’t imagine energy! So we can take the example, that consciousness is made up of atoms!
In fact, I argue, that satiety is composed of these smallest particles, atoms. That is why the great surrealist of the twentieth century, Salvador Dali, painted atoms in the core of Madonna! That is why Salvador Dali believed in quantum mechanics! He believed in a quantum world of the fourth dimension that every man can access. In that world of the fourth dimension is God. Thanks to our knowledge that God exists, we can come to the truth about our consciousness. Before we can even think about God or talk about him we have to know natural numbers. They are elementary for everyone. To know what One is, that is God, we must know that there is number One, and what one actually is? Natural numbers are the elementary atoms of knowledge on which a large building is assembled. If we say that atoms are cognitions and if we ask ourselves where consciousness is, we will realize that consciousness is not in the head. Consciousness is where natural numbers are! Mathematics and physics are natural sciences, but they do not study reality as it really is. They only construct reality.
Consciousness is actually an individual quantum effect, although if we take this fact into account, we will understand the whole essence of Salvador Dali’s art.
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Its magnificence extends over the narrowest part of the Arno River, and its soul is alive just like the water flowing under it. Its soul knows that magnificence has nothing to do with size, history or outward appearance, and it proudly welcomes people from distant countries.
It is believed that the bridge existed even in the time of ancient Rome, though the city where it is today isn’t called Rome, but Florence. Ponte Vecchio, the Old Bridge, the bridge with a house on it… Connecting roads since ancient times, it has suffered many floods, accidents and reconstructions. They say that it acquired its present shape in the fourteenth century, and that the first stalls appeared on it in the thirteenth. Those were the years when its soul was just breaking through, and it fought for its place in human time. The time when, due to excessive fear of hunger, people didn’t believe that even living rivers could have a soul, or that the same river under the Old Bridge churned debris every day from tanning-yards, butchers’ and fishmongers’ shops. Yet those shops, like all other forces characterized as bad, had their converse, positive side. They became houses and many among them, spiky over the water, turned into permanent places of residence. Thus, the surface of the bridge took on the appearance of a house. And nobody asked whether the bridge wanted a house on it.
Its appearance wasn’t as important as its power to support the souls of the fortunate and unfortunate people who passed over it, or survived thanks to it. Some of them became rich and some, when they went bankrupt, were beaten by soldiers who destroyed their shops. Such people said goodbye to the bridge, but they knew that it would always carry their stories and sadness, and they visited it later with joy so that it could remind them of something they themselves were afraid to remember. Despite the dread memories, those people knew why they were coming back. The bridge carried their wisdom and the wisdom of other people who had left their lives on it, and it could teach them something.
According to history, traders were expelled from the bridge in the sixteenth century and small jewellers took their place. Despite these events, the bridge, even in those times, cared nothing for what was happening on the surface; it was important for itself, mostly because of the great secret it carried. The waters of the Arno River rose often and assailed its height, but the bridge was indifferent even then. People would walk over the bridge again after repairs, and only that was important, since that fact kept it alive. Even if the river won and it crumbled, the Old Bridge knew that someone would rebuild or repair it simply because its place has always been there, over the narrowest part of the river. And even if it completely disappeared, the idea of the bridge would live forever, and nobody could erase that from the face of the earth!
Once, when the river rose more than six meters, the jewellery shops were flooded and the gold disappeared under the bridge, just as wealth vanishes after a man’s demise, for when he no longer exists it isn’t his any more. The bridge remained, renovated, but strong. And the house on it? The house changed, it was repaired and torn down, for some it was useful and for others it was a hindrance, but above all it was just a house whose entire existence depended on the bridge, which lived with its secret.
Nonetheless, the secret of the bridge was so simple that it was discovered many times before this modern age, and even now many can reveal it. It is manifested in the minds of all those who are on the bridge at this moment, because people create their own worlds every day from nothing, and that’s why it reveals itself differently every time. But those who want to access the world of that secret completely must remember one thing: while passing the Old Bridge they mustn’t remain indifferent, for indifference kills the secret!
(from the book “Secret of a bridge”)
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Our thinking is divided into thinking through imagination and thinking through intellect. So claimed the rationalist Baruch de Spinoza. Imagination is a performance that arises as a consequence of sensory perception. So, what we dream about in life is conditioned by what is given to us, what we are surrounded by, what we see on film, on the Internet, by what we read in a book or magazine… Intellect is our own concept in which our personal unique talent and taste is located. It’s a concept that comes up with ingenious ideas, unique design, timeless stories, original music… That’s why bestsellers “pop up” so rarely. They are always a product of a personal concept and never part of an “imagination that is available to everyone”. That is why there is originality in them.
In what is really valuable and has the potential to conquer the whole world, not only imagination is invested. There we can find the personal intellect concept, unique talent and ability to get out of the limitations that surround us.
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The connection with God is more important than the reality of the world. What we see is not a complete reality. What we see within ourselves is our only reality in which it is possible to make a connection with God.
Absurd isn’t it? Plato’s Cave is actually our reality in which we live. And coming out of the cave is the light of truth that lies within us. This truth is reflected in our knowledge that the entire universe is actually our connection with God created within ourselves.
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because a hearts's letter is written without them;
You'll learn to listen without superstition,
you'll understand the wisdom of the one who is silent.
When you help those who did not help you,
And you do not create a rival game
forgive the one who has not repented,
because forgiveness is a matter of your morality
When you praise the one who can not praise the other
and for this you have no ambiguous goal
do not talk about the worst
so you could raise your self-confidence
When you kiss the leper and do not feel bad,
because so his wound will become painless
Hug the homeless and let them all marvel
regretness is weak people's dark side
When you cheat to help those who are deceived,
Do not be ashamed yourself
Give what you've been collecting for years
but do not look for the benefit in that.
When you lose the most important in your life
Do not surrender to death as a sceptic
bless the one who stole from you
No one can steal what is intended.
Trust in more when you fall the lowest,
because it builds high from the low;
Achieve but keep dreaming,
because birth is just a new beginning.
When you swim in gold, don't measure yourself with others,
because the measuring is the virtue of envy;
Do not boast in your deeds,
in modesty is their strength.
When the Oscars and Nobel prizes are important to you,
Golden palms, lions and globes;
Do not let those confessions, delights and applause
mean everything to you.
When you supported all armless so that they could swim,
and sing with deaf people in front the whole world.
When you prove to lords that thay can love too
and give them your oath.
When you protect the sun shadow with a shade
give light to the brightness and darkness to the night
Treat everyone equally,
you'll know you left a clue on the Earth!
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Years passed and after time the young traveller would simply stop by for pieces of advice. On every occasion the sage admired his questions and successes. The young man became his best disciple and the sage promised him that one day, just before leaving the visible face of the earth, he would hand down to him all his power and treasures, as well as the title of most esteemed teacher, despite his blindness. The young man, being too young to rid himself of all the meaningless human desires, asked if he could use just a part of the treasure while the sage still lived.
The wise man loved his young disciple and thought him more capable than even he had been in his youth. Therefore, he promised to start giving him the treasure piece by piece when he turned thirty. Thirty years is the minimum necessary for making the right decisions, the sage said. But he would be able to use the funds only for assistance in handing down the ancient knowledge. The young man agreed. At the age of thirty, once again he set off into the world with some treasure in his pockets. For years he searched but couldn’t find a person who really needed help. When he returned to his native land, he found the sage’s abode deserted. That said, he did find a chest full of treasure and under it the message: “If you use this treasure to help others, you’ll receive the only thing missing in your life: absolute happiness.”
The young man thought that it was probably an elixir that could restore vision, and happily took the chest, intending to find a man in need of help as quickly as possible. Soon he met the most beautiful woman he had ever come across. A long time before, he had gained the capacity, even though he was blind, to feel the beauty of women. When he discovered that she too was blind ‒ he was sure it was a sign. He decided to help her as his parents and his old teacher had helped him. He resolved to teach her everything he had learned. A great deal of time passed before the young man noticed that the girl had begun to believe in the ancient wisdom and her own power. One night, when he was almost sure of her success, in his dream he saw a path to distant mountains. In the middle of the forest he came across a huge chest decorated with the most beautiful gems and gold that he had ever come across. The dream was so vivid that he was able to draw a map of the path on paper. When he awoke, he remembered the words of his wise teacher, that he would gain the most beautiful thing in the world if he used the treasure to help others. Therefore, the young man, realising that he had already become too attached to the girl and forgotten his own intentions, resolved to dismiss those feelings and follow the map from his dream, without even time to say goodbye. Three years of searching passed and he became even more confident that he was on the right path.
One spring, when peaches were already ripening and filling the air with the most beautiful colours he could imagine, the young man arrived at the place with the chest from his dream. He felt the chest with his fingers and opened it, and almost fainted from surprise. Inside, he found a living woman’s heart beating in the purest and most beautiful tones. He sat down and wept bitterly. He realised that he had readily given up love in order to find a treasure, not knowing that love was the only treasure he was missing. He remembered the old sage and sat for a long time in the distant woods, deep in thought, a young man with two hearts.
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One day, a wizard appeared in the village. As soon as she heard the news, the old woman went to him so as to assure herself of his powers. When he asked her why she had come, she said that she would like to have a wish fulfilled.
– I would like to have a big house and a garden full of fruit so that I might never be hungry and miserable again.
The wizard told her not to worry, and to return home. He could grant her such a small thing.
When she arrived, she found a villa with a beautiful garden instead of her hut. There were many fruits in the garden and a plentiful feast was served in the house.
Days and years again passed, and the woman grew used to having everything she needed, to the point that life became monotonous. Previously, she’d thought of her misery, but now she had nothing to dwell upon.
More time went by and the old lady decided to go back to the wizard to see if he could alter her life that little bit more.
– Why have you returned?
– I’d like you to fulfil one more wish for me.
– What? ‒ asked the wizard.
– I wish that instead of the villa, I could have a big castle, so that I might invite friends to dinner. And it wouldn’t hurt to have a couple of servants. I’m too old to take care of myself.
– Don’t worry. I’ll fulfil that wish if it will make you happy ‒ the wizard took pity on the elderly woman.
When the old woman returned, instead of the villa she found an enormous castle with a gleaming lake to the side, and woodlands all around. Servants with large trays laden with fruit awaited her at the entrance as her acquaintances walked down the paths, smiling like old friends. The old woman started to take pleasure in luxury and the company of others.
Days and years continued to pass. One day she looked in the mirror and realised that she’d aged even more. She realised that she did not care about anything any longer. She was alone and old, even within the walls of a large, luxurious castle.
Then it occurred to her that she could go to the wizard once more. Perhaps he would take pity on her in her old age again and fulfil her last wish.
– Why have you returned?
– I have one more wish, and I swear this will be the last.
– I can fulfil one more wish, but it will indeed be the last. I no longer have much power to fulfil wishes. I need to go back to the far-away mountains, and I’m getting ready for the journey. There, in peace, I will be able to restore the strength I need for my own life, long since spent fulfilling the wishes of others. And so, think carefully about your final wish.
– I want to be young again. Not as the girl I was in my youth, but as the most beautiful girl in the country. Then I will be a princess in my castle.
The miracle-worker felt sad that the old woman had lived her entire life without learning that appearances, riches and poverty were immaterial, but that the way we deal with these facts of life is important. Nevertheless, he resolved to grant her last wish.
While walking to her castle, she felt lighter. She looked at her hands and noticed her fingers becoming younger and longer. She took hold of her long silky hair and realesed that her wish had come true. She ran to her castle as quickly as her legs could carry her, to look at herself in the mirror. As she approached, instead of the castle she saw her old, small house, and through the window an empty table inside. Not even noticing the empty table, or the old house, she opened the door and stepped into her crumbling room. She stood in front of the rusty mirror and saw herself ‒ young and beautiful, just the way she had been in youth. Happily, she smiled at the thought of her bright future.
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Secret of a Bridge by Dushica Labovich
Posted byFairyDecember 18, 2020Posted inBook of the WeekTags:#Dushica Labovich #Secret of a Bridge #inspirational #fiction
An inspirational novel about the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Antonio, the hero of this allegorical fairy tale, grows up with his father. From an early age, he listens to stories about famous bridges, as well as personal bridges that every man can build. His dream of building his own bridge is so rooted in his blood that, as a young man, he wants to accomplish it.
After leaving his father’s home, he meets a snake on the road, and she teaches him the most precious lesson in life, „Listen to your heart and on your path to fulfilling your dream there will be no obstacles.“
After speaking with the snake, in the port of Palermo, he gets his first job, something he never even thought he would do. A seagull reveals the path to opening his soul to the world, and Antonio has to turn into a gull for a moment to understand bird language. „Only a man who understands the language of nature can understand a man’s soul,“ the gull tells him…
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Montenegrin author with philosophical background Dushica Labovich,
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HISTORICAL ROMANCE FICTION/VINTAGE
An unofficial guide to love and trust;
A romantic story and family drama;
A tale about female strength.
Set in beautiful castles in the middle of the twentieth century, this is a story about Doris Rose the daughter of an English oligarch who cannot forget the poor young man who stole her heart a long time ago when her parents forcefully separated them.
But love has the power to turn the dark tragedy of their past into a miracle.
Reborn as one of the richest men in England, the former poor boy from her childhood returns to her parents' lives...
Morally marred by lies, deception and secrets from her parents' past, the former mistress of Magnolia Castle, Doris Rose, is forced to abandon her wealth and join the working class. She blames the very man she secretly loves for her misfortune.
The oligarch's plans and the pride of the girl who has lost everything become the only things that tie two people who secretly love one another.
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Someone said - This is “The Notebook” meets “Pride and Prejudice”!
Think, he was right!
You can read reviews on the site GoodReads:
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