In your books you are proving, that you have great feeling for contemporary human and his distresses. What do you think in what direction is going the future man? Will he be capable to survive and save his integrity, creativeness and intellect, and above all mental health?
It’s always very tricky to talk about “mental health”: I’ve been committed as a teenager to a clinic institution. I felt in my own skin the burden of being cataloged as “mentally disturbed” just because i didn’t fit into the social norms.
In my wanderings I came to believe that a person has a personal legend to fulfill. What is a personal legend? It is the reason why we are alive. In my case this legend was to share my ideas with others through writing.
We have dreams, that are not necessarily the dreams that our parents or society had for us. So, we must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives. The message in “Veronika decides to die” is that: dare to be different. You are unique, and you have to accept you as you are, instead of trying to repeat other people’s destinies or patterns. Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not. Normality is the capacity to express your feelings. From the moment that you don’t fear to share your heart, you are a free person.
Thanks for your words …
You will like it! I´m sure.
Love.
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Dear Love, i just got a copy from The Little Prince, from my cousin, and i ll start reading it!!
You were always an angel, it is just that for a period of time you forgot you were…And the little girl never left you…even in the abyss she was looking forward to coming back..desperately.. to you..
And she is not just nice, but a beautiful girl wanting nothing more and nothing less than love…So my dear Love, love her always and never let her go..i let her go and the results were dreadful..Plunging into the abyss for 7 years is totally devastating of one’s soul..so i know where you come from..i definitely know and understand you…
And this little girl is so special and deserves the best of everything..
Love and Graditude
Annie
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Dear Annie,
Did you read “Le Petit Prince”?
I think you will like it.
I can remember so clearly the first time I read it. It was like a revelation or something like that.
Like “The Alquemist” or the other books I read in that time.
It´s so good to be able to read in that way, like a child.
To be honest, I Really thought that some characters, like Melquisedec for instance, did really exists … and I mean without metaphors …
Ça cèst drôle! …
It was a sweet way to read. It was very naive, but I am glad to have experienced that even being a grown up.
Now it is not the same. No matter how many times I may read “The Alchemist” again, for instance. Nothing can ever compares with the first time I read it. I was still in the “other” world. I was just arrived to this one. I was a new born in this world with twenty three years old. It was a strange time in my Life when I was still like an angel.
Now I have learnt a bit more to live between humans :).
It´s also very good, no doubt.
That girl is still with me, smiling.
After that brief period of Light, she had to go to the abyss, but she is ok after all.
She is very nice, I just Hope She could be patient enough to stay close to me.
I´ll do my best.
Love,
Love.
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Love to you, Paul, you are a warrior of Light, sheding light to all of us, including me…
p.s.This blog is so helpful..because everything here is said and done only with the power of Love
Thank you always
Love and Graditude
Annie
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Yes dear Paul from Austria,…so quickly…and it takes a lot of courage, trust and faith to get back on your road…
even then you have to take care because of them who call you insane and try to bring you back to where you come from.
Love
All Ways
Hildegarde
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It grieves me endlessly to hear so many tragic stories of “Child Abuse”..because that is what it is basically all about. The trust, the light, the joy, the free spirit, devoid of malice or needless expectations, that a child brings with it into the world, can be destroyed so quickly. And this is the greatest crime (sin) of all!
God bless all of those who have suffered, there will come a day when you are “free at last”. (I’m talking from experience) Love, Paul
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My dear Thelma i just replied to you , i hadnt seen the message
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/06/13/paulo-coelho-on-how-internet-changed-publishing/#comments
Love and Graditude
Annie
p.s. Paulo Coelho is like a star so bright and shiny that can guide anyone in the dark…
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My dearest Annie, The message I sent you is on:Previous Editions,you click 13th June and then VIDEO: my views on internet etc. then 7 responses and it is there.[I was late in answering to you...] As you know, unfortunately, in order to survive and live a decent life we need money. You must feel grateful[as I feel the same for my parents] because I am sure her concern is for you to be able to have a decent job and stand on your own feet.. After I left dreams and Vienna, I went to England for a year and had a …secretarial course!! You may wonder, what on earth, would this be of need to an artist?? But this ‘practical’knowledge has helped me in different circumastances..{After all I had the highest speed in type-writing} The languages have helped me communicate with people and, I believe, everything we experience has an immediate result on our SOUL, AURA and MIND, that I am sure will be reflected on whatever you do. PAULO COELHO is our ..guiding star! You are a beautiful soul. Thank you for your kind words. LOVE from Cyprus!!!THELMA
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Also thank you dear Peter for your link…i wrote it down to see it every day…reminding me that i dont want to become something i m not…i ve been through this, and i was something else from what i expected from myself…a ghost…both inside and outside..It was just not me…
Love and Graditude
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My dear Thelma, are you sure that it is on 13th June??I didnt find a comment from you…maybe i didnt check right?? anyway, the thing is that i have tried to commit myself in the course, but i didnt enjoy it at all, and i have abandoned it…i was thinking every single minute that i waste my time..all these because i dont want to find a job in this field, and become one of those people that i dont wanna be, those who have abandoned their dream and do a job without an enthousiasm..my life would be miserable…without my dream i dont think i have a reason to wake up the next day..Thank you though for your perspective, that i can learn from this..and possibly make advantage of it..Thank you my friend..You re so beautiful as Afrodite (cause you are from Cyprus)
My sweet Love, i can totally understand you..I ve been through Hell again and again, and again and again..7 years seem to be a long time that i was a resident in Hell..and the kingdom of darkness was as if it would never end..And so i destroyed myself..As for guilts i definitely know…My ‘parents’ use to give me guilts for every single think that goes contrary to them..I would say that they have a master in this, all these years..it is as if a child expects a good word, an act of love from his/her parents and they give him/her guilts as presents…
As far as the ‘protection’ from others and ‘what is best for you’ that they say ( to justify their capriciousness), all these are fake..behind this mask, there is not love…
And you are right..Love doesnt leave room for the Evil…Thank you from the bottom of my Heart for all your kind words,and for your Love..
The Paradise will come…trust me..
Many rainbows for you :)
Fly through the vast blue skies
Reach for the stars
And In the rainbows slide
The sunrise will come
Love and Graditude
Annie
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Sorry, I shouldn´t have written that.
I was talking based on my own experience and, though I wanted to say that, is incomplete because I would like to add much more things.
Probably your mother wants to ‘protect’ you. But, again, there are a lot of things to say about the way in which some people ‘protect’ others. If you Love your dream, focus on your Love and, everytime Evil (using your poor mother) try to upset you or whatever, think on the Love you feel for your music and the Enemy will have nothing to do. Even you will smile at and embrace your mother. When you are feeling the Joy of your music or whatever it is you Love, in a natural way you will think only in your Love; and the darkness in your mother (her own fears and doubts) will have no room in your Life.
A smile for you :).
May God bless you,
Love.
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Dear Annie,
I have read your message.
I´m trying to find the words to express what I would like to tell you,
Justice.
Be strong. Do it for Justice.
I have been in the Hell because I was not strong enough to keep myself Alive when the Enemy (also through ‘my mother’) decided to take me (and my child) to her kingdom of darkness.
Now … my child and myself … we both have suffered because of my stupid failure …
We have paid more than enough.
My ‘mother’ knew very well how to destroy my Light and she did it. She uses guilt as her best weapon.
When I was Blessed with the Paradise a few years ago (It was so Bright, so Bright) she told me that she was suffering because of my fault, as usual.
So I thought she was true; I thought she was suffering because of my fault and I decided to punish myself leaving the Paradise.
And, of course, my child and the woman within me had to come to Hell with me. (Only those who have experienced Hell may know what I am talking about).
So big was the influence of ‘my mother’ by that time …
Evil has been using her for a long time to keep me far from the Paradise.
And you know Annie, my child has suffered cruelly (still suffering) because of my horrible fault.
I should have been Wiser and Stronger.
It is not fair that the helpess girl within me and my child suffer because of the capriciousness of Evil (through`’my mother’.
I am remembering this next time the opportunity to Live in the Paradise come.
I wish you well.
I wish you sense of Justice and Respect toward You (You are much more worthy of respect than the capriciousness of ‘your mother’).
No permitas que te aparten de tu sueño. Tu eres mucho más importante que los caprichos que el Diablo (utilizando a ‘tu madre’ o a cualquier otra persona) pueda tener, te aparten de tu Corazón.
Your Heart is Sacred, my friend. And you have your little child within you waiting for your protection. If you leave your child alone and completely helpess, be sure that Evil (using ‘your mother’) will kill Him/Her using the most horrible and cruel way.
Que la Diosa te Proteja,
Love.
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Dear Anne, I have a message for you on the Daily Archive fór the 13th JUNE, that I believe will answer to your today’s message..The only thing, that I have to add today, is that whatever you learn will be your soul’s treasure and your ‘dowry’ for this life. Computer engineering may sound dull for you now, but the channels that will be opened to your thinking will make you a better artist too..Think of the possibilities that computers will offer you, even in composing, writing,listening, put pictures into your sounds etc. and at the end the advantages will seem more than the disadvantages.Life will wait for you even if you feel so miserable now, until you graduate from your course..Love, Thelma
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Why is that so many people -family/friends think that when a person wishes to express what is in their soul or live out their legend-mission here, that they have gone mad or lost the plot ,maybe even having a mid life crisis ..people do not understand that by doing what you love makes you happy -content ,passionate and joyful ..they want to be killjoys and find it hard to take in “why” you would leave something so safe and secure to be a free spirit -spread your wings and fly the bird - not in a cage ..having partners or spouses resent you for your artistic nature or dreams kills a relationship , people would rather have you normal and working 9-5 living the same day over and over again -no wonder so many women loose themselves in marriages /children and life…they get buried in bills/school/work /house /and how important it is to have everything ..WT ! I for one made sure that my spiritual journey was living and breathing in my lifestyle so it was only to live by my own light. Be authentic, an in order to do that you have to keep meeting it and living it -no matter how hard it is - do not belittle it or speak harsh of it ,there is a saying that it looks poorest when you are richest ~ Henry David Thoreau says -” The fault finder will find faults even in paradise .”Love your life -poor as it is .You may perhaps have some pleasant ,thrilling ,glorious hours ,even in a poor house “.The sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich mans abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring .Love Tania
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Hola Paulo,
Que cierto! Soy un trabajador social y trabajo en salud mental, con criminales que han salido ala comunidad. Mi trabajo es dar terapia con mis clientes que estan clasificado ‘enfermo de la mente’. Las escrituras que usted ha escrito, aveces le ha dado mis clientes. Porque, la mayoria del tiempo ellos estan sufriendo por ansiedad, temor al futuro, o otras rasones. Gracias por sus palabras tan hermosas, y calma que nos dan.
Ciao!
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Yesterday, i fought with my ‘mother’, and that really exhausted me…she said if i dont graduate from my college (computer engineering) then i should not expect anything from my parents..why is it so hard to be an artistic nature??? why is it so difficult for them to survive in this insane world?? i am a musician in my soul…and i will not let anyone and even myself sacrifice my life and waste it by commiting to something i know i hate…today though i feel so weak…
Love and Graditude
Annie
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How many of us can really say we live “our” lives? I fear the answer is not very many. We grow up with parents, peers, teachers expecting so much of us, because that’s what they want, and we often do the things we do to please those people. But this id definitely wrong, and you dear Paulo are so right. We are here to live “our” lives and the sooner we grasp this, the better. Free, Free, set them Free, If you really love someone…set them free (STING)
Love & the freedom to live, Paul
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A few years ago ‘mental illness’ was a stigma and a taboo. The progress in medicine, diagnosis and pharmacology has freed humanity from this prejudice and removed the ’stigma’from those people. To speak freely about this theme, was the first step for understanding. I believe that the boundaries, that divide sane from insane, have changed. Science and chemistry have explained and healed ‘madnes’. Progress, evolution and knowledge is the solution and leads to Wisdom. The necessary step is to try to achieve full harmony of MIND, SOUL and BODY and free ourselves from fear and express ourselves through love and respect and find, as you Paulo Coelho say, our personal legend.LOVE, Thelma
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yesterday i went to see an exibition
of Camille claudell at the rodin museum in paris.
she was one of the most amazing sculptress of her time
extremely talented. at the very young age of 20 she came to paris to study at Rodin studio. she fell in love with Rodin. they had a secret relationship because he was married. she was a very passionate woman and you could see that in her work.sadly he abandoned her. and because of that she went beyond her emotions she did things considered “abnormal” but no, she was just in love and heart broken. she wasn’t embarrassed to show her feeling and to cry for her lost love. because of this her mother sent her to a mental institution where she spent 40 year of her life until her death. i think it is a very sad story
her life and talent was wasted just because she wasn’t afraid to show what she really felt
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