Daily Archive for March 10th, 2008

The Witch of Portobello (complete and free!)

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Paulo Coelho
on March 10, 2008
in News
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Dear readers,
You can now browse the full edition of The Witch of Portobello (courtesy of Harper Collins). Therefore, you can read the first pages (or the full edition). If you decide do buy the book, there is a link on the left side.

The Witch of Portobello ( complete and free! )

This link will be there till the 11 of March. On the next months, we are going to have full editions online of all my titles published in English.

Quote of the Day

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Paulo Coelho
on March 10, 2008
in Quotes
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By Paulo Coelho

The Signs - at times imperceptible, at others very clear - are all around us.
But they require careful interpretation if they are to be transformed into a road map.
(Manual of a Warrior of Light)

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Seeing yourself

Published
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Paulo Coelho
on March 10, 2008
in Stories
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By Paulo Coelho

‘When you look at your companions, try to see yourself,’ said the Japanese teacher Okakura Kakuso.

‘But isn’t that an awfully selfish attitude?’ asked a disciple. ‘If we are always concerned about ourselves, we will never see the good things that others have to offer.’

‘If only we did always see the good things in others,’ replied Kakuso. ‘But the truth is that when we look at another person, we are only looking for defects. We try to discover his wicked side because we want him to be worse than us. We never forgive him when he hurts us because we do not believe that we would ever be forgiven. We manage to wound him with harsh words, declaring that we are telling the truth, when all we are doing is trying to hide it from ourselves. We pretend that we are important so that no one else will see how fragile we are. That is why whenever you judge your brother, be aware that you are the one who is on trial.’

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Today’s Question by Aart Hilal

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Paulo Coelho
on March 10, 2008
in Q&A
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In your books you often touch on the problems of existence, faith, the search for the meaning of life, loneliness. Do you try to share your life experiences with your readers through your heroes - to help them to understand life and the value of living?

What I do in my books is to share my experience, and nothing else. I don’t try to make the readers to understand anything, because I do believe that experience is what counts. However, by being able to communicate my inner soul, both the reader and myself feel that we are not alone, and this give us both extra strength to pursue our personal legend.