Comments on: Paulo Coelho Interview by Marika Schaertl @ Focus Munich

By: agnieszka

agnieszka — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:57:32 +0000

Dear Paulo,
I love that You are so open and calm, regardless of what the subject is.
That shows that You are worth every minute given to You and Your books.
This shows also that there is this LIGHT inside You, that shines through.
You are the real Warrior of the Light!

love
Agnieszka

By: Driss

Driss — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:45:22 +0000

A well sewed analysis Monica.speaking about the arrow, it seems to me that yours’ shot the interviewer and not the interviewed.It’s obvious since you elevate Paolo to the status of god.Focus’s success lies in making Paolo reveals his inner side,his Freud.Where could we find expressions such these “no open wounds, pretty scars” if focus shosed to cover her arrow with honey and butter?.Right. she shot the wall, that wall on which Paolo tries to reconstruct man and wonan’s dream.

By: Driss

Driss — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:55:35 +0000

One important thing attracted me in this interesting interview:The author’s ability to cope with the stream of change. May be this is the result of the “little bit of madness”.Of course without this bit of madness ,we can’t bear the great madness of the greedy imperialists..

By: Monika Frotscher

Monika Frotscher — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:32:10 +0000

One to zero for you, Paulo!

The interviewer didn’t come through to irritate you! Although the lady left no room for you to guide conversation into an agreeable direction, you didn’t loose patience (utterly at least).

I had to laugh, when you tried in the end to stop the aggressive lady with a flirt attack, talking about flowers, but she gave you no chance. She was really a tough nut to crack! It is very interesting that she switched over to another theme just in this moment - asking you about excesses, sex and women. No surprise that this conversation had to end with Freud!

I was not astonished at all that she shot the arrow into the wall – she simply refused to have the same direction as you. No common goal! Thus this had to happen. Good luck for you she did not shot you. You have to be careful whom you give bow and arrow!

I would really like to know, how you were feeling during this interview!

By: Leaf

Leaf — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:37:19 +0000

This was lovely to read as it’s not about books.
Thank you.
Love all

By: Kealan

Kealan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:17:09 +0000

Munich, sweet Munich, this is where I am spending the Christmas, in a sweet warm apartment not far from the Olympic stadium. We arrive late on the 24th so I will be unable to shop for two days!! I get to spend money then on all the wonderfully made clothes and munch on a few German sausages as I walk around in the freezing outside. The beer is pure as is the air in the Alps.

It reminds me terribly of walking into a stranger’s house and breaking something, like a child, the throat tightens as you wait for the occupier to come to terms with the loss of something that until now was part of his life and did not change, it seemed unchangeable, until that moment. How it was fine for the past 20 years until somebody broke, shot, tore, it. In it’s self it is magic how the hand is guided to a specific point in a house, the target is hit, and something changes. Beginners luck goes out the window, to take its place is experience, at last. So now the crafts man can relax and know that he is appreciated for his talent at hitting the true target and not some empty space between walls.

By: Carmen Larisa

Carmen Larisa — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:19:24 +0000

P.S. One more thing: People don’t necessarily need religion, we need God first of all.

By: Carmen Larisa

Carmen Larisa — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:00:10 +0000

A nice and pretty funny interview! I liked the part in which the interviewer shoots the arrow in the wrong target… :-)
Like Tania above mentioned, I can picture the scene as I once did something similar when trying to hit a target and the instructor was shocked and annoyed but the whole scene seemed ridiculously funny…
As far as the changes in the world are concerned I believe that it depends on how you perceive them. There are changes, not very obvious indeed, but delicate, subtle ones. The truth is that the world doesn’t change completely for the better because people don’t want to change completely for the better. We are the world, we should understand that.
And I also believe that it depends on how you look at things, as the world is a reflection of how we are inside. For example, when I have moments of disappointment towards the others, I realize that somehow I am also disappointed concerning myself, when I am optimistic and see only the positive aspect of everything, I have a state of well-being inside my heart too.
And I also strongly believe that talking about peace is not enough, no matter how elevated the discussions are, at what level, if the participants are businessmen or presidents. If you don’t have serenity inside, if you don’t feel peaceful, you cannot transmit and spread it outside.
That’s why an old, simple, ordinary woman, in a remote village can be closer to God than a fancy philosopher talking about God and “-isms” because the first one can feel God in her full heart and the other one can only talk about something, thinking that he knows what he is talking about but there can be only empty talk, without substance…
Scars heal by themselves. In time we get used to them and they don’t hurt anymore; when we forget about them, one day we’ll notice surprisingly that they are gone!
As far as smoking and other vices are concerned I strongly believe that one day soon people will realize that they don’t need cigarettes to feel relaxed nor lots of alcohol to enjoy themselves and become numb, nor drugs to substitute reality for illusions… Love can fill all the empty spaces we feel having inside and we will be perfectly comfortable with ourselves, secure with the Spirit we all are. This can happen now, in two minutes, one hour, one day, tomorrow, who knows exactly, maybe sooner than we have ever expected.
We all want to be loved and cherished and to love, but we sometimes have funny ways of showing our needs and desires.
We all make mistakes, after all we are not Gods, we are human beings, but we seek Perfection, we choose to go on hopefully and the life force inside us is so powerful that if we are willing, She will guide our paths and correct everything eventually. :-)

All my love and appreciation,
Carmen Larisa