Paulo Coelho

This story is one of my favorites in Paulo Coelho’s book, Like the Flowing River. My eyes got teary while I’m reading the story. It will make you appreciate the people that appreciate you. I really am thankful that …
 
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By Paulo Coelho

Various biological studies have shown that if a toad is placed in a container along with water from his own pond, he will remain there, utterly still, while the water is heated, even when the water reaches boiling point. The toad does not react to the gradual increase in temperature and dies when the water boils.
 
Fat and happy.
 
On the other hand, if a toad is thrown into that container when the water is already boiling, he will jump straight out again, scalded, but alive!
 
Sometimes we behave like the boiled toads. We do not notice changes. We think that everything is fine and that anything bad in our lives will simply go away – that it’s just a matter of time. We are close to death, but still we sit, unchanging and apathetic, while the water around us gets hotter by the minute. We end up dying, fat and happy, without having noticed the changes going on around us.
 
Boiled toads do not understand that, as well as being efficient (doing things right), they need to be effective (doing the right things). And for this to happen, there must be continual growth, with room for dialogue and clear communication, room to share and to plan and to build an adult relationship. The biggest challenge lies in having the humility to respect someone else’s views.
 
There are, however, boiled toads who still believe that the most important thing is obedience, not competence: those who can, lead, but those with any sense, obey. And where does this leave real life? It is far better to emerge from a situation slightly scalded, but still alive and ready to act.

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Once a child ask a friend of mine:
“Why are we born if we have to die?”
Please give me your thoughts in this.
Love,
Paulo

I received the blog link from Maria Hammon from Flickr – to read it please visit her blog Just Me Again
Love,
Paulo

I have recently read a book named “Alchemist” of Paulo Coelho a Brazilian writer and very impressed by his thought. In fact I became his fan and now exploring his all creations. One of his best creation is …
 
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The Witch of Portobello is Paolo Coelho’s latest work. It is the story of Sherine Khalil, the one who chose to be called Athena, who summons within herself an inner goddess and calls her Hagia Sofia, who tells people things that they …
 
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By Paulo Coelho

A Zen master had hundreds of disciples. They all prayed when they were supposed to pray, except for one, who spent all his time drunk.
 
The master grew older. Some of the more virtuous students began talking about who would be the new leader of the group, the one to whom the important secrets of the Tradition would be passed on.
 
On the eve of his death, however, the master summoned the drunken student and passed on the secrets to him.
 
The other disciples were in uproar.
 
‘It’s shameful!’ they proclaimed loudly in the streets. ‘We have been sacrificing ourselves for the wrong master, one who has failed to see our qualities.’
 
Hearing the hubbub outside, the dying master remarked:
 
‘I needed to pass on those secrets to a man I knew well. All my students are terribly virtuous and only show their good qualities. That is dangerous, for virtue often serves to hide vanity, pride and intolerance. That is why I chose the one student I knew really well, the one whose faults I could see most clearly.’

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I’ve stumbled upon this slideshow of the making of Experimental Witch in Kirsty Hawkshaw’s blog.
Thank you!
Paulo

(what i did while i SHOULD have been working)… so i read the entire book ‘the valkyries’ by paulo coelho, same dude that wrote …
 
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today may be one of the most happiest moments of my life.
 
my favorite author, Paulo Coelho, replied to my email. i wasnt expecting a reply from him considering that he’s a very busy person, as we all know. my only intention of emailing him was …
 
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By Paulo Coelho

‘We have no doors in our monastery,’ Shanti said to the visitor.
 
‘And what do you do about thieves?’
 
‘We have nothing of value inside. If we had, we would have given it to those in need.’
 
‘And what about troublesome people who come to disturb your peace?’
 
‘We ignore them, and eventually they go away,’ said Shanti.
 
‘Is that all? And does it work?’
 
Shanti did not reply. The visitor repeated his question a few times, but seeing that he got no response, he decided to leave.
 
‘You see how well it works,’ said Shanti to himself, smiling.

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“…According to Mr Coelho, the author of the best-selling novel The Alchemist, “in these difficult moments in which the world is in danger, culture is the base to establish a dialogue”.
 
He pointed out that …”
 
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‘I don’t know. And I’m not saying that I’m unhappy all the time. I have fun, I love you, I adore my work. Yet now and then, I feel this profound sadness, occasionally mingled with feelings of guilt or fear; the feeling passes, but always comes back later on, and then passes off again. Like Hans, I ask..
 
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This is a story of a woman named Veronika who, one night, decided to take her life for a reason that she saw no reason to live. She took four packs of sleeping pills, …
 
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