Monthly Archive for October, 2007Page 2 of 19

Like the flowing river …

If you liked that post, then try these… A Coelho Quote about making choices by szavanna on July 11th, 2007. A question for Paulo Coelho by szavanna on June 22nd, 2007. Blog of the day - Aart Hilal by szavanna on July 26th, 2007 …
 
Please visit szavanna’s blog. She wrote about “Like the flowing river” by Paulo Coelho.

Coping with transitions

I recently read three books that were somewhat related: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. I am planning to write about these books when I digest them a bit …
 
Please visit Mete’s blog to continue to read his thoughts.

The Witch of Portobello

"Pity those who seek for shepherds, instead of longing for freedom! An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone, but remains far from those who shift responsibilitiy onto others. …"
 
This article is written by Alvin Yong. Please visit his blog to read Alvin’s favorite quotes from Coelho’s last book.

Who is the teacher?

A disciple asked Nasrudin:
 
‘How did you become a spiritual teacher?’
 
‘We all know what we should do with our lives, but we always reject it,’ replied Nasrudin. ‘In order to understand that truth, I had to go through a rather strange experience.
 
One day, I was sitting by the roadside wondering what to do, when a man came over and stood in front of me. To get rid of him, I made a gesture, and he copied me. That amused me, so I made another gesture, which he again imitated, but this time adding another.
 
Then we started to sing and to do all kinds of exercises. I felt better and better and I came to really love my new companion. A few weeks passed and one day I asked him:
 
‘Tell me, Teacher, what should I do next?’
 
And the man replied: ‘But I thought you were the teacher!’

What makes people give their time but not their money?

Dear friends,
The other day, while walking in the tourist center of an European town, I saw something that I had seen millions of times: a couple asking a passer-by, who was wearing a suit and walking hurriedly towards his home, to stop and take a picture of them. This common request somehow made me think about the following: why did the passer-by stop? Had the couple asked him 5 cents he would have never stopped, but asking him his precious time he agreed.
What makes people give their time but not their money?

Hitchhiker

He was 200 pages into the 1986, The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho (a rewalking of the pilgrmage of Saint James of Compostella). He called himself a ‘traveler’ and referred to others like himself with whom he keeps in touch via the internet …
 
This article is written by ruth. Please visit her blog to continue to read the article.