Published on
September 29, 2008 in
Q&A.
One could say there are just two kinds of people: The ones that believe in justice in this world, and the ones that don’t. In which category do you fit? And why?
I think that reducing the world to two kinds of people – those that believe in justice and those that don’t – is too simple. To believe in justice is not the matter. The matter is: to apply Justice, to live according to the laws that you think are valid.
When you start truly thinking about how you are living up to your standards of justice, you start, strangely enough, to perceive the world through other lenses.
The judge of other people’s lives disappears.
Published on
September 26, 2008 in
Stories.
By Paulo Coelho
Ernest Hemingway, the author of the classic The Old Man and the Sea, went from moments of harsh physical activity to periods of total inactivity. Before sitting to write pages of a new novel, he’d spend hours peeling oranges and gazing into the fire.
One morning, a reporter noticed this strange habit.
"Don’t you think you’re wasting your time?" asked the journalist. "You’re so famous, shouldn’t you be doing more important things?"
"I’m preparing my soul to write, like a fisherman preparing his tackle before going out to sea," replied Hemingway. "If I don’t do this, and think only the fish matter, I’ll never achieve anything."
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