By Paulo Coelho
Love is an untamed force.
When we try to control it, it destroys us.
When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.
When we try to understand it, it leaves us lost and confused.
(The Zahir)
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..e muito mais,
O Amor se Vive,
O Amor não tem limites, não tem corpo, não tem tempo,
O Amor só tem Amor, prá viver com seu Amor.
Beijos,
Mari Raphael.
Hi,
just makes me wonder with the saying “love conquers all”.
I’ve been through a lot of pains with the saying above. Is it really love that conquers all even though someone has been hurt by the act of conquering all? or it is selfishness?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-3pV1q1I4
What is it this that it’s called LOVE. Τι είναι αυτό που το λένε ΑΓΑΠΗ.
LOVE,
THELMA
Love can be tamed when you become love
Love can be controlled when you set it free
Love can be imprisoned only by the sky above
Love can be understood under the Bodhi tree
LOVE:
When we try to understand it, it lives us lost and confused.
I am very, very confused!! It is the MYSTERY of life that its secrets no man has ever unveiled, yet.
UN UNTAMED FORCE: If love is a desire from the physical realm,
then, I think that our Mind always tries to analyze it and ..tame it. The fact that it is a powerful ‘force’ makes the ‘battle’ unequal.
When love carries the meaning of erotic love and passion, then the sentiments overwhelm us and we are possessed. The force that drives us towards the fire is so strong that we cannot cotrol it and either we submit or we..free ourselves and then our Heart is destroyed, ‘dies from lonelines’.
We are the butterflies around the candle.
LOVE,
THELMA
Sometimes we love persons we are not supposed to..love is always beyond limits and restrictions…we can’t tame love…the problem is what comes next
Love is a contemplation, not a laboratary mouse. But when we don’t control it, we could commit mad and irreversible things.
Love helped to look within, rather than getting me lost. Love did not destroyed me, but attacks, doubt, fear, or shyness did. Love is vibrant behind the words, distincted moreover in a plan we learn more and more to live it unconditionnally, because indeed addiction is the first scar of love. People does not want to belong to someone else. Or take risks. They assure themselves before if you could live without the beloved. This is not how I learned to love. This is control.
That’s why I like the third sentence: “When we try to understand it, it leaves us lost and confused.” There’s no words to tell how love could be exchanged. Because it simply answers to two peculiar persons, in a peculiar time. And even if their love is strong enough, they could be lead to a deadlock, for love is blind, for the two are not at the same part of the bridge, for many things, beyond understanding control and silence not so silent.
Or for they did not love so strong they pretended.
With Love.
Heart – That is one beautiful Italian serenade…I just love it :_)Thanks for sharing ,and if u find the name please share !
“oh how I love thee,thou cant not know ” that speaks right to the heart ..Love and Light Tania
Hi Paulo… i’m writng because i’ve a very important question!!!!I’m a man, is it possible (i’m reading brida) that the other part of me is a man too??
Please reply me.. it is very important
Enjoy your day.
Pask
when we try to control it,it destroys us..so possession is not a right way to keep it?
when we try to imprison it,it enslaves us.. so addiction doesn’t let me feel it?
when we try to understand it,it leaves us lost and confused..so it’s a mystery.
in fact i feel love when it lets me see,hear,feel the beauty of the world through my pains.
i hope this “quote of day”could stay here all this week-end..to read all the answers,thank you to leave us confused.
great! LOVE is indeed d greatest gift to mankind.
the most unpredictable thing i ever knew, more unpredictable than life’s stories. we cannot really control it or even command it. the lines were as clear as love, truly, love’s untamed by whomever. LOVE is a plain,a known and a common “word” for everyone but without knowing that it’s as complicated as the most complicated thing on earth.Love can simply turn things from one’s nothingness to its fullness, from the most impossible things to its possibilities. funny how it seems, but LOVE can really turn us into the other side of us. the other side of us that we thought we could never find. we’re slowly becoming what we can’t be without even noticing it that we’re doing such things that are so unfamiliar or unusual or something strange to us. hehehe! honestly, wen we’re alone realization cmes along, =]
esp. when we’re in pain, coz as what the song says, “We bleed just to know we’re alive” hehe.. yeah, wen we’re in pain, we cannot explain why we’re soaked in the depths of agony, not until we realized that we love and you’re in pain coz its hurting u the lose of your love is hurting u, or whatever the situation is, (depends on the situation, ayt?) hhmmm… its really nice, i mean, to be inlove. let’s just leave LOVE as it is, let’s just LIVE and LOVE. NO “buts” and “whys”, just live and love. when we love, just love and u’ll becoming the “every words” in the dictionary that defines love, like, you’ll learn how to understand, to accept the unacceptable, to forgive, to smile, to see things clearly right before you and to live a great life.
thanx Mr. Coelho for the quote, haven’t read your “the Zahir” yet, but I’m really planning to buy it. i love your works, you’re one of the greatest men i ever knew in my entire life. and u just simply changed me from nothing into something ,(worth loving). it might be impossible but, your words just really changed one person from a “nobody” into a better person, see, how your love to your writings touched the lives of others, like how u changed me. your words in my head will never be wither, NEVER. thank u so much for touching the oblivious minds and the lost souls. soar high, touch more lives.
happy and contented, inlove and a friend,
saia
Love (1)
Love wounds us.
Like tribal scars,
Love marks us,
Shows us as new
Initiated beings.
Parallel slashes
Of raised scar tissue
Label us as different.
Love hurts us:
The brief bold cut
Dripping hot blood
Shows us changed,
Reinvented daily.
Only those who share
Our pattern of scarring
Can see and know
The person we have become,
Or see the beauty and power
Of those indelible wounds,
Invisible to those untouched
By Love’s kind blade.
I hope that this poem of mine is safe here…
Love is.
Love is an untamed force.
When we try to control it, it destroys us.
When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.
When we try to understand it, it leaves us lost and confused.
and yet ! we love to love, but are so fearful fo ‘loosing control’ that we don’t allow ourselves to simply love.
one can but surrender before love and be led rather than leading !
love
aditya
Perfect quote.I agree with every single word.Love is a powerful force,that is we cant tame it,nor inprison it,nor understand fully.
But if we live Love in the right way,it can bring so much happiness and light into our lifes.
Love is worthwhile..
Blessings Tania
Perhaps someone can help me name this Aria from a collection of Italian serenades, and who performed it. I used to have it on a cassette, which I gave away and now only have this text.
Hear the voice of one who adores Thee,
who now implores Thee in grief on torn
Watch beneath my wind of keeping
why all are sleeping as in days of dawn
Let my soul to pity move Thee
oh how I love Thee, Thou cant not know
Ah look down, in mercy hear me
and paradise bring to me, here on earth below
For that on my heart is yearning
when days returning that shadows leaves.
Soon we all, that world is waking
that dawn is breaking but it waits for Thee.
Let to me my own beloved and once again respond
as in days of yours
Oh my love, in pity hear me, look down and cheer me
as in days of dawn.
It wasn’t until I left my husband and met this extraordinary persian taxi driver that I learned what love is. I was married to a lawyer/judge and had everything one could want, well in the eyes of most people I knew. And it wasn’t until I gave it up and had decided to follow my path, I found (after a while) what I had always been looking for. I no longer have the material things I had before but I have never felt more fulfilled and happy. I know I have met my soul mate. And that is a truly amazing experience.
Hi Don Pablo
Thank you very much for been such a caring human been
and bringing to us every day a new Quote, for me is a
great inspiration an in more than one occasion has make
me determent my decision.
I hope that where ever you are at this moment in your life
the bless of GOD is with you and everyone else.
Please take good care of your self
IF
..e muito mais,
O Amor se Vive,
O Amor não tem limites, não tem corpo, não tem tempo,
O Amor só tem Amor, prá viver com seu Amor.
Beijos,
Mari Raphael.
The picture shows that unlimited kingdom of God and between it traffic light signifies our egoistic self.