Who supports you?

by Paulo Coelho on June 8, 2009

Now you can see who is behind the camera it is Paula.

I would like to know who is behind your camera? Who gives you strength and support to carry you? Because everybody in this world has someone behind the camera Paula is not the only one I have many people who support me in my work and enable me to keep on doing what I do.

So share here who are the people that support you in your path?

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Marjan September 21, 2011 at 9:09 pm

an extraordinary magical power is always there for me! I don’t know what to call it.

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kristina August 31, 2011 at 4:25 pm

i think ……….parents r only person who supports us in any situation……..

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Feider July 8, 2011 at 8:55 pm

It is more something than someone. It is my Music, Heavy Metal, that keeps me going.

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Marilyn July 9, 2011 at 10:37 am

ACDC
can I call you “Papa” :)

Huma July 8, 2011 at 11:48 am

spending years thinking that i have no one to love and support me, i realsied i do have supporters around me throughout my life.My dad n mom, siblings , friends, teachers and so many others…its just how we see at how they supported

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Luciana May 19, 2011 at 2:00 am

O meu apoio vem dos meus sonhos!

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Twinkle April 4, 2011 at 2:35 pm

My Mother.

Many a times a thought strikes me….

Its freedom v/s being rooted

I feel my mother is that strong anchor which holds me in the sea of life with infinite rope so that i can also go and wander……..explore the whole world without fear of getting lost…………………..

If i just keep wandering around..the question may sometime come..is there not anyone waiting home? and if i just am tied down..then the question arise…….what is freedom??

but in my case… i am super lucky to have my mother as my angel…who has given me all the support…..has rooted me well……and has given me infinite strength to go on and explore my own horizons..and thus i call her……… my anchor with infinite ropes….

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Voyager March 8, 2011 at 11:45 pm

My shadow

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keyla March 1, 2011 at 5:09 pm

Para ser sincera detras de la camara no hay nadie. Pero en mi vida cotidiana me apoyo en Dios, mi familia, los amigos, mi mascota..,considero tambien que los libros y la comunidad virtual.
Cada uno de ellos ha dejado una leccion en mi vida
Aunque aveces viajo estando aun lejos, ellos forman parte de mi vida…

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Eveline Renard December 7, 2010 at 7:45 pm

Lenen is berekenen. Zo simpel is het. Het hele concept van geld lenen, draait om het calculeren van kosten, van terugbetaal termijnen en van tal van andere ingewikkelde constructies.

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cmcd December 6, 2010 at 11:25 pm

my main support are my mum and dad and i’m 16 years old, from dublin. my dad for being stern and my mum for always being there and comforting.i think if i depend on my friends i’ll be even more let down. dude if you see this keep up the writing! and your blog is a great resource. maktub

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TJ December 3, 2010 at 12:24 am

I am often surprised when I find out who is behind my camera, as it is seldom the person or situation I had thought would be there. I have looked for familiar and expected faces, only to find them nowhere to be found.
In the end, I would make a video like Paulo of myself standing in front of a mirrored reflecton of myself behind my own camera. I know that I am the only one I can and do trust 100% (although this was not always the case) and who supports me 100% of the time. Others are simply a reflection of where I need to fine tune my own support. Yet, I am never ALONE, for we are ALL ONE.
Much appreciation ten fold Paulo for your amazing talent of finding the words that are often in our soul and putting them to pen and paper. Namaste.

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Saima Ali September 21, 2010 at 7:35 pm

salam sir,
my will to get support, supports me.

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Guru Talks September 17, 2010 at 8:13 pm

God supports me, yes he does — but I’m stupid I don’t remember him when I need him the most. Fault is mine.

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trio September 15, 2010 at 11:56 am

Focus.

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Josephine September 5, 2010 at 11:36 pm

My biggest support are my intuition and faith. And It takes a years before I learned to listen for them… yes, there is my mother around… my friends too, but trought the past hard times I had an opportunity to learn that even my mom, sister and friends are just a human beings too. For example, after my dad passed out, 11 yrs ago(and we all, sister, mom & me were his princesses…) I had planty of time to figure it out… they also lost their father/husband… and even the closest persons in that time, they were just a humans… Even that I was the youngest. Just 18 :))
Love you all, grettings from Croatia. Just listen to your soul and belive in that someOne upon is looking and care on us… <3

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Anjali August 10, 2010 at 2:26 pm

It is my inner strength that supports me …even in despair it does not let me give up …..when I talk to myself , when I give myself some space alone….I suupport myself , apart from your parents who are always besised you no matter what you choose in life …their love supports one to go on.

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Monica August 8, 2010 at 8:14 am

The only people who support me though I have chosen the road not taken are my parents :)

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Sara August 2, 2010 at 3:13 pm

Support. I have always found support from others a tricky thing due to my rather strong being, but have in the passing year learned to understand something:
My mother, she is my biggest support and voice of reason. Sometimes thou, instead of supporting my choices, her love and need to protect me prevents her from simply supporting my ways and i find her to try and be an obsticle instead of support. Even then she serves me a great strenght thou, i will do what i set out anyway and i will suffer and learn on my own, which is hard for any person and teaches me valuable lessions of following my own voice.
My boyfriend provides the support in a way where he allows me to be weak, angry and disapointed when i need to be those things; and he showers me with love and affection in those moments.
My ex, a firm believer that i changed his life, for which he has sworn to be here for me all his life and keep loving me even if we are not together. This might not be possible, but it’s the thought that i could do so much good in someones life, that he has (after all the bad things) learned and developed with my support into a direction where he has found happiness and a new sense of adventure, gives me immense strenght and happiness.
My friend, who desired to be an actress but lost hope and believe and was doing the same dead end job as me before. my words to her (i believe they were:”you are not happy in this job, it traps you, u need to be brave, quit this job u hate and go after acting and expressing your artistic capabilities that you were blessed with”)changed her life, and she has found happiness.
My biggest support is the good i can do in others lives, that is where my strenght comes from and those are the people whom i also let support me and touch me as i touch them. It is a connection with some people in my life that provieds support even if they are far from me. Cos i know it is there and it is pure.

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Berewinkel, Lars August 2, 2010 at 2:19 pm

The people support me are around me in my life. I live in help form life. I can find out, but I have to be attentive for opportunities of further support. It is the chance I have. Further more God supports me, when I need his help.
p.c. books are support for me, too. Today it was the book “Life”.
Thanx Paulo for supporting me!

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Mohit August 2, 2010 at 1:13 pm

People supports when one feels weak …

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Dave C July 30, 2010 at 9:49 pm

I need Love and Support. Sometimes it comes in fleeting moments of frienship where a temporary situation provides the chance for an unexpected connection. If it is allowed in. Other times there is the real understanding from loved ones, wife, parents, and some deep deep friends. They may not have a full understanding of who I am, or what I am about, but they are there supporting and cheering on regardless. I am greatfull to say that I can count a few sources of Love unconditional. And greatfull for the opportunities to give same back. These existing situations may change with time, but I will replace them, or at least I will fight for the right to continue to live in them in some fashion.

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veena July 18, 2010 at 12:37 pm

i lost my earthly support three years back…so the only support is HE for whoes mission i m on…rest i do not know …HE decides my moves…

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Madgi July 6, 2010 at 12:30 am

The most beautiful souls ever!

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Mysterius Seeker June 29, 2010 at 12:20 am

To be really honest.. in the situation i am in now.. NO ONE.. sounds fair?

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AngelicLayer June 1, 2010 at 7:07 am

my mother. shes a huge motivation for me.she supports me all the way. she has done so much for me. my friend nicole, shaquile, tevin, and lazaro who keep me sane.
Linda Vizcaino my mentor and my biggest fan Segundo Gonzales.
my “Survivor Man”, who unknowingly supports me and helps me get through the most difficult times. those are the people support me.
God is my spiritual support.

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jane leikvold May 26, 2010 at 8:51 am

tusen takk for hærlige bøker.jeg ble fasinert fra første bok,å leser alle jeg kommer over.bøkene er virkelig fulle av visdom,de har lært meg å se på livet i et annet lys,selv om mye trist har hendt meg.tusen takk.jeg tror den største styrken er deg selv tror jeg..

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huma arshad May 23, 2010 at 2:15 pm

God supports me every time, while if i talk about people its you Dear sir Paulo Cohelo who has become a big support for me to bear all the hardship of my life, since i have started reading your books my life has taken a 180 degrees turn ;i daily write in your blog and believe its my biggest support now a days .I really thank to God to have you around for people like us.
huma arshad

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Justine May 20, 2010 at 6:51 pm

ME and just as well.

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Елена March 14, 2010 at 12:33 am

Получалось так, что когда оставалась одна я начинала искать людей, в инете в большей степени. И на каждом этапе жизни выходило что кто-то со мной был… родной ли человек или друг, который становился в итоге ближе чем брат. Один, но кто-то есть или несколько. Даже на работе есть человек, мысли о котором сдерживают от желания уволится… А в обще я одинокий человек, но люблю о чем нибудь писать (как получается) и читать… особенно когда есть потребность познать себя и свою психологию… тогда были дни когда читала и Алхимию, и книги Кастанеды, и другие по эзотерике. И все это как-то сдерживает от опрометчивых поступков, особенно если есть родной человек как брат. Почему я здесь оказалась… просто вышло так, что нашла в инете видео на тему письмо Пауло Коэльо, а вышло что здесь в блоге есть философские тему на тематику жизни.

Turned out so, that when one of me was began to search people, in the internet in a greater degree. And on every stage of life went out that someone was with me… whether native man or friend which became in the total nearer what brother. One but someone is or a few. There is a man even at work, ideas about which stop from a desire will retire… And in obsche I am a single, but love about what nibud’ to write (as turns out) and read…especially when a necessity to get to know itself and psychology is… then there were days when read Alchemy and books of Kastanedy, et al on esoterics. And all of it somehow stops from hasty acts, especially if there is a native man as brother.
Why I appeared here… simply went out so that found in the internet video on a theme the letter of Paulo Koel’o, and went out that here in bloge there are philosophical theme on the subject of life.

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