From Ashes, it Rises...
Rise like a Phoenix from the Ashes might be just a phrase, but the background story goes many years back and from that phrase, people have found a new meaning to life—a smile, a not-to-give-up attitude, a warrior to face challenges, and more.
The Phoenix bird is a mythological bird from Greek folklore. It was a feathered creature of great size with talons and wings, its plumage radiant and beautiful. The Phoenix lived for 500 years before it built its funeral furnace, burst into flame, and died, consumed in its fiery inferno. Soon after, the mythical creature rose out of the ashes, in a transformation from death to life. This story of becoming born again predates the story of the phoenix rising from the ashes.
In the book 'The Phoenix (From Ashes to Rebirth)', Narinder Kaur used this simile to express that one needs to emerge from a circumstance more strongly and smartly. For example—after the destruction of the WTC in New York, America rose again to form the One World Trade Centre. It's that never-give-up mentality that the Haitian people showed after everything was washed away with the hurricane. One big example, Narinder herself broke down all walls that were suffocating her and chose to arise once again for herself, her children, and for many who think their life has been reduced to ashes...but that is not the end...it's just the beginning of something new that is ahead.
From Ashes, it Rises...
Rise like a Phoenix from the Ashes might be just a phrase, but the background story goes many years back and from that phrase, people have found a new meaning to life—a smile, a not-to-give-up attitude, a warrior to face challenges, and more.
The Phoenix bird is a mythological bird from Greek folklore. It was a feathered creature of great size with talons and wings, its plumage radiant and beautiful. The Phoenix lived for 500 years before it built its funeral furnace, burst into flame, and died, consumed in its fiery inferno. Soon after, the mythical creature rose out of the ashes, in a transformation from death to life. This story of becoming born again predates the story of the phoenix rising from the ashes.
In the book 'The Phoenix (From Ashes to Rebirth)', Narinder Kaur used this simile to express that one needs to emerge from a circumstance more strongly and smartly. For example—after the destruction of the WTC in New York, America rose again to form the One World Trade Centre. It's that never-give-up mentality that the Haitian people showed after everything was washed away with the hurricane. One big example, Narinder herself broke down all walls that were suffocating her and chose to arise once again for herself, her children, and for many who think their life has been reduced to ashes...but that is not the end...it's just the beginning of something new that is ahead.