By Paulo Coelho
Good and Evil have the same face;
it all depends on when they cross
the path of each individual human being.
(The Devil & Miss Prym)
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By Paulo Coelho
Good and Evil have the same face;
it all depends on when they cross
the path of each individual human being.
(The Devil & Miss Prym)
Welcome to Share with Friends – Free Texts for a Free Internet
I believe that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we attract even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange…
Styled with arrariv
only time… will tell..
love
Agnieszka
Agnieszka,
I feel.
Gratefully.
You are an inspiring writer. One thing I must ask is, “Why did you make The Pilgrimage accessible to anyone online?” Don’t you benefit more by just selling them and just advertising with previews, rather than actually putting up the entire book?
p.s. I picked up writing myself because you have inspired me.
Words: they have bad face only for their existence and good because still thanks to them we grow up…
It took me a little longer to get through This story. I think I need to read it again. I must say though, that in times of temptation we can not say “what I would do is…”, until that momment comes.
OROSCOPO
Vergine (23 agosto – 22 settembre)
“Nel romanzo di fantascienza Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti Douglas Adams afferma che “il significato della vita, dell’universo e del tutto” è il numero 42. Questa settimana dimostrerai che si sbaglia accumulando prove inconfutabili del fatto che il vero significato della vita, dell’universo e del tutto è il 59. PESCE D’APRILE!
Non possiamo ridurre il senso della vita a un numero, né a un’unica teoria o ideologia. Il significato del tutto è esattamente l’opposto: è il mistero glorioso, è l’ambiguità meravigliosa ed eccitante, il caos fertile e affascinante. Esci per cercare la verità prodigiosa e caleidoscopica, e goditela!”
As Annie Lenox sings:
“everybody is looking for something..
some of them want to use you…
some of them want to get used by you..
some of them want to abuse you..
some of them want to be abused…”
truth…
:-)
love
Agnieszka
I wander…if it has the same face…
how can you know..?
No es puro el que no tiene tentaciones, sino el que las vence.
Madre Teresa de Calcuta.
Lovely words
bo0om paulo,
there is no good nor bad ,
all good leads to bad,
and all bad will naturally lead to good,
its just how finely one rides ones own edge of his or her own destiny,
naturally its so difficult to perceive one’s own natural flow in this synthetic perception that we entangle ourselves more and more.
gautama the buddha reccomends,
be an abserver and observe all that you do to yourself or others,
a state of zero,and a state beyond the infinite,
bo0om
fLUXman
In and out, Energy is as Good as bad: plus and less. So it depends on the pole we are. “Plus” gives the feelings of happiness and joy; discoveries in Universe has no limit.
Less” gives the feelings of sadness and culpability, while space srinks as darkens.
One leads us to share, the other to keep.
Night is really darker than day, but It is not disguised in sun.
Sometimes soul has to be crossed by evil. Maybe in a sense to reach the good. Magic manifests in both, and gives us the gift to see how to transcend evil in good. And also, how both works together, whether they’re opposite.
Like this: good never comes for nothing, but to accompany and enlighten us as will. Also to reward us, all said and done.
As for evil, it would come to destroy our plan, by forcing us to understand something we missed. Something, which has to be understood, and transmuted, or left.
But does it always come to? I don’t know at all. Whatever, the plus is to live in plus, not in less. Though I’m sure that if something is bloked to see somewhere, we would like to be in plus, we could not.
We’re not so free to use the pole we want, because we are skewered by both everyday, at each second. We’re not especially always unconscious about it, but we’re maybe not enough concentrated, when we are in bad feelings, and too perched when we are in good ones.
I can remember the book helped me to recognize that evil brings good. And the best thing was to see it like this. :) Ok we lost all, but we have all: we can fight, think still, draw plans and re-built. Then to discover all was not for nothing, but for good.
It said some men managed to live unconcerned, as Nature Balance.
Thank You.
Only goes to show that it is useless to try to divide the world into good and evil.
Only the ego can make definitions like that.
the same face – different expressions
When the soul gets clouded it shows, as well as a true smile comes from within…
When one walkes around with the expression of a thundercloud, only the brave will smile at you… or in other words, will open up their hearts to you…
Love,
Vicky
Well, my friends…you are right-this is very difficult theme. I can’t tell you what is evil and what is not, only the power over everything (God, great Mother or as you wish) knows thus it’s not up to us to judge others.
And how I see the meaning behind?
Good and Evil have the same face…yes…because sometime Evil thing must happen and few are lost, but other are saved. Or evil thing happens and it terrifies us but this example might help many others to open their eyes. They would be living in oblivion and their life would be gone without purpose (even they have never done anything bad) which is rather the face of Evil than of Good…and Evil thing helped them turn into action, which was not the face of Evil but Good from “other side”…as I say, we can’t judge because we know nothing. What we can do is “open the book” before we judge according to its cover as Yajna wrote.
And Agniezska wrote:
Only time will tell.
I agree.
:o)
Good and evil are in each of us…
We attract the opposite to find balance between action and reaction by the awareness of ourselves and our emotions.
When we are aware of our emotions
the illusion of good or bad
disappears in oneness.
Love
All Ways
Hildegarde
I like this quote, and i’ve said it many times to a person very dear to me… the decisions that we make, and the opinions that we hold are all just a product of the present. Good and Bad, to me, do not even exist in tangible form. They are both just vague ideas. What is important, is to trust ones intuition and make the right decision for the right moment.
Thank you
Daniel
I think good and evil can have the same face in the sense that each represents some level of evolution in our individual or global consciousness. That is, when what is perceived that evil occurs, it leaves in its wake a realization that change needs to take place – an empathic paradigm shift of sorts. When good happens, it is a perception that a positive evolutionary shift has happened.
I agree. Evil so many times masquerades as an angel of light. It is with much discernment we must choose; making a decision with what we have learned in the past, and recognizing that although we may choose the wrong path at times, it will serve to make us stronger in the future.
The stranger proved it in the book , but it depends on the situation ..there are evil things like murder which are just that evil ..but no what your situation is ,if we ask that only good can come of this -then that is what you will get ..if your attentions are for your higher good , spiritually speaking …
I enjoyed the book there where some great lines in that story ..Blessings Tania
I totally believe that…the face is the same..and the power is the same..the only thing that changes is the decision that you make, whether you CHOOSE to use this power for good, and LIVE with the true meaning of the word, ‘being you’, or if you decide not to LIVE ->hence reverse- EVIL, destroying you (making bad decisions for yourself )
It took me awhile to understand this quote, and it came when I wasn’t even thinking about it. Good and evil has the same face meaning when a person looks into a mirror. The action of someone may be that of an angel talking or the devil.
Dearest Paulo and friends,
ahh.. now this is interesting..
i like it..
Timing is everything isn’t it? timing and perception based on ones situation… The most innocent things could seem evil, or vice versa if the situation permits it. One should keep a clear mind always and and try to take all factors into consideration- its best not to judge a book by its cover (as they say). But alas, we’re all human, and its far easier said than done…
Thank you for being
Yajna
only time… will tell..
love
Agnieszka
Yes! Even the face of death could be regarded as a blessing if it crosses ones personal path at an auspicious time!
What you will do to one, you will do to another. This is YOUR character. All that are good, we just have to chalk it up to karma. “IT,” WILL come back around!
Good is GOOD, Bad is BAD. Your CHARACTER is the sum of your decisions. If you’re a person of bad character, you are nothing more than a BAD decision maker.