In "The Zahir" his(the author’s) wife beleives that no one is really happy. They are either pretending to be. Or dogde from answering the question.She shifts to a war zone for she beleives that it is the only place where people are …
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I gave this interview in 2000 and thought it would be interesting to share with you here.
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By Paulo Coelho
The teacher placed a large glass jar on the table.
Then out of a bag he took ten stones, each the size of an orange, and began placing them, one by one, in the jar.
When the jar was filled to the brim with stones, he asked his students:
‘Is it full?’
They all agreed that it was. The teacher, however, took some gravel from another bag and by jiggling the large stones around inside the jar, managed to fit in quite a lot of gravel.
‘Is it full now?’
The students said, yes, this time it was definitely full. At that point, the teacher opened a third bag, this time full of fine sand, and he began to pour it into the jar. The sand filled up any empty spaces between the large stones and the gravel, right up to the top.
‘Right,’ said the teacher. ‘Now the jar is full. What do you think I’ve been trying to demonstrate to you?’
‘That it doesn’t matter how busy you are, there’s always room to fit in something else,’ said one student.
‘Not at all. What this little demonstration shows us is that we have to put the large stones in first because, afterwards, they won’t fit.
Now what are the important things in our lives? What are the plans we postpone, the adventures we never have, the loves we fail to fight for? Ask which are the large, solid stones that keep God’s flame alive in you and put them into your jar of decisions now, because very soon there will be no room for them.’
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Other then him I enjoy reading Paulo Coehlo, Robert Ludlum and Saadat Hassan Manto. What’s the first thing you notice about a person (whether you know them or not)? I try to discover that if that particular person is genuine or phony …
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A word to the wise: This is not a complete review on the book itself, but rather a synopsis of my interpretations from certain passages of the book, which struck a discordant note with me. …
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