~katrina

As you take another journey to santiago, I will be walking my first step there in 2 weeks time. if not for your books, i would not have ever learnt of The Way, nor be ever so moved and inspired by the beautiful and emotive contents. I am taking life’s challenge to re-discover myself.

Thank you so much and pls continue to inspire others with your writing

much love and peace be with you always!
mary

Thank you for everything, my dear Sir.

Have a great journey with endless passion and endless wandering…

May God be with you, and may all of us share your thoughts and your feelings.

Yours sincerely,
Maria Greece

My journey is still not half-way. Still a lot of rocky and smooth roads, stops, detours…Just like with your journey now at the Santiago d. Compostela, I am also experiencing and learning a lot – reflections, hesitations (sometimes), joys, pains…but if there is one thing I can be sure of…it will be the fact that I will never give up. I will finish my own “journey”.

I thank you for being a source of inspiration and strength. Your words have not only paved way for deeper reflections but have also inspired, enlightened and strengthened me in a lot of ways. Thank you.

In a world that could be chaotic, it is refreshing to see someone have such a deep passion for writing and life. It constantly reminds me that life is beautiful…and that I need to nurture my beautiful and free spirit.

Right now, I am into Zahir. And as I struggle with the question “What now? What’s next?”…I know that somehow, I would be able to learn a thing or two from the book that could hopefully, guide and inspire me in my search for the “answers”.

Cheers,
Andrea

shyloh gibbons
shyloh.zaadz.com/
Chicago, IL

Thank you Mr. Coelho

Leendert Van Velsen
leendert.zaadz.com
The Netherlands

I am inspired by the un-named man who without doubt follows his instinct and plunges into a stormy Ocean to save another and then finds his life at risk. What a gift to encounter the miracles of Redemption and Renewal.

Chalesmagne teaches that while we are Warriors we cannot cheat the fates.

Matthew, the artist what do you teach me? I cannot find comfort in remembering the piecering of the eyes of an artist unless it means to be turned from public adoration suspends us in the realms of eternal bliss in ‘what we see through the Eyes of the Soul?

To-day my cousin a Monseignor in the Catholic Tradition came to visit. He brought a fellow Priest and two nuns into the little St Vincent de Paul shop where I work. They loved the Engery/Spirit of the shop and they indulged in a big spend before we went to lunch and laughed at ourselves. Finally we visited an art gallery to admire some of the first artistic impressions recorded by an Englishman of this mystical Land of Australia. English eyes had never seen ‘the Spirit of God so alive on the Land’ and the art is not good but reflective of how we cannot see unless our eyes are ‘innocent.’

Is the Simplicity of Spirit the ability to respond without reason, indulge in the present moment while aware of the big picture?

I wonder if De Compostella is the inspiration for the film Field of Dreams? When you build it he will come.

For years my dream to build a template for housing the homeless has come constantly into my Dreaming yet I can’t afford to leave Australia let alone build for others. If I need know what I would do with my Sword…then I would achieve housing for the homeless…Too much to write about here.

I thank this site for allowing me to ‘download’ my feelings. I know the Path comes to us wherever we are and by shedding my fears and doubts I am reclaiming the bigger picture.
Blessings to Paulo and Everyone.
walk gently

You think tht our destinies are written? Do u think, or believe rather, tht before we are born into this world, our purpose here and how things are going to turn out for us are predetermined? Thts wht i want to believe when i read the sotry above of cheating fate, or when things happen in my life tht i cannot explain or fathom….its then tht i am inclined to believe in words like Fate and Destiny.
I am Indian, and in Indian mythology, u must be aware, as u have read the Mahabharata, tht there is this concept of a person sitting in heaven with a huge book, tht hold the accounts for every person on earth, wht has and wht will happen to him/her…..pretty disconcerting if u think abt it ,eh?

In India, in a city called AGRA there is the world famous monument, The Taj Mahal……….the emperor who commisioned it and got it made……employed 20 thousand workers to do it and when it was completed, had their hands chopped off, so tht they could never duplicate such a thing of beauty ever again.

Why do u reckon this is? are we compelled to protect a thing of beauty to the extent of vanity?

Are you now, finding new stories everyday, along the same path…..?

regards,
…….ekta.

Is it really impossible to change you, is it really. If it is really so why do men put in efforts. Isn’t it that no matter how hard you try you will get what you are destined to get, and if you are destined to get what you are destined to get why put in so many efforts…? There has to be an answer to it.

Regards

Oh! the ways of mankind
Oh! what power humans have to inflict suffering… or joy

….much food for reflective meditation

Thankyou

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I have found the ‘Vipassina’ path relatively recently.
Often called ‘the way’, I have been struck by many parallels to to Jesus’ path and that of many saints, and your use of terminaology like ‘the path and ‘the way’ which have been used since Buddhas own teaching as a analogy for what an individual must go through to achieve wisdom.
After being immersed in Theravadin doctrine and practising meditation myself, I was struck, while re-reading your excellent recent book (the Zahir) last month, by many similarities in the books main themes, (especially the main character’s transformation) have to following the path to enlightenment as recorded by the ancient ones in Buddhist lore. Was this deliberate – or just because the base of all religion is, indeed in the nature of reality, and therefore ultimately, the same?

Paulo, I hope that your journey now will leave you with more questions to ponder and more feelings of wonder.

By the way, I am a teacher.