Paulo Coelho

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The question of this week is very simple and direct.

During the book fair in Frankfurt, I told everyone there that they should share content freely in the internet. Either we share or the industry will die. Most agreed with me but still had to figure out how they could survive in this new model. I didn’t have a ready-made answer to this since I’m taking my steps. This need for them to have an answer also applies to music, films and any other type of art. So, how can we share contents freely on the web and still make a living out of it?
According to you, how will the new paradigm of internet apply to the cultural industries?

You answers will be shared by me with some of the people I meet in Frankfurt.
You can also read my speech on copyrights and about the future of the book by clicking here

Paulo Coelho on the Blaue Sofa at the book fair Frankfurt

Dear readers,
here’s a little movie I did for you while receiving the Cinema for Peace Special Award for the Experimental Witch Project last week in Frankfurt.
I received this on behalf of the moviemakers that made this project possible.
Love
Paulo

P.S : if you speak German, you can watch the full laudatio by clicking here

Diamonds are the most precious of all precious stones. Hence their name in Latin: regina gemmarum “the queen of the gems”. In virtual all societies, diamonds are associated with perfection and purity. Plato described the axis of the world as a diamond column rising to the skies. In popular traditions diamonds are supposed to make people invisible, cast away bad spirits and draw feminine favors.

In the traditional symbolism of the precious stones, diamonds are associated with the sun. Hildegarde de Bingen (1098 – 1179) stated that “the devil sees in this stone its enemy since it resists to all his endeavors: that’s why the devil hates it day and night”.

Lonicerus, a Renaissance botanist, thought that diamonds could even stop wars, strife and be able to protect us from any poison or temptations bad spirits could bring.

Now you take the floor: what do you associate with diamonds?

By Paulo Coelho

In the intervals between battles, the Warrior of Light rests.
(Manual of the Warrior of Light)

Welcome to Share with Friends – Free Texts for a Free Internet

Considering loves importance in our lives, do you find it interesting that in English we say "fall in love"?

To me fall implies an involuntary action done without true intention…

I think it’s possible to "fall" in love given that love is a force that can take us from heaven to hell in matter of minutes.

This tremendous energy overflows us in a sense – the ego sometimes has no saying in it.