Daily Archive for February 12th, 2008

Quote of the Day

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Paulo Coelho
on February 12, 2008
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Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there.

Daily Message

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Paulo Coelho
on February 12, 2008
in Stories
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The kingdom of this world

An old hermit was once invited to go to the court of the most powerful king of the age.

‘I envy a holy man like you, who contents himself with so little,’ remarked the king.

‘I envy Your Majesty, who contents himself with even less than me,’ replied the hermit.

‘How can you say that when the whole of this country belongs to me?’ said the king, offended.

‘For precisely that reason. I have the music of the celestial spheres, I have the rivers and the mountains of the entire world, I have the moon and the sun, because I have God in my heart. All Your Majesty has, on the other hand, is this kingdom.’

Today’s Question by Aart Hilal

Published
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Paulo Coelho
on February 12, 2008
in Q&A
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The Alchemist became a world wide phenomenon. What did inspire you to write this novel and did you expect to have such a tremendous success?

When I wrote this novel, I was trying to understand my own journey, and the only way that I had to do it, it was through a metaphor. As for the success, I still have no idea, and I don’t think too much about it. I only enjoy the fact that I am not alone, because the readers identify their journey with the journey in the book, and that means that we share the same challenges.

Pagina 2 (TVE en Espanol)

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Paulo Coelho
on February 12, 2008
in Youtube
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