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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well there are many people who supported me at various stages of life but the main driving force reserviour in my life are my parents who always show me the lightening lamp in dense night …………..
they are the most precious gift of god for me,,
I always thought that there were people who supported me. People come in my life and are in my life..and serve an important role, but at the end of the day as much as I try to fight it..I think that the only one who is here to support me is me. I am not negative..and I do believe in angels…but even they have a hard time supporting me when I don’t …does that make sense……….
That makes alot of sense, and I kind of find it sad, since I just realized that a while back, but I belive it is the truth.
True! People come and go! You must learn to support yourself not just finacially but also spiritually!
Have faith! Believe in yourself and look out for #1!
My mom is my Rock!
I was leaving my home as a teenager with a long road ahead, yet only my feet to take me there. And against my better judgment and advice from parents I asked for the help of strangers. I put out my thumb and started to hitchhike. And from that day forth through the divorce of my parents, lost love and many difficult times I have found solitude, peace, and great wisdom from strangers with whom I have shared my heart, and their heart with me for minutes to hours and then step out to say “… oh, my name is Rupert – glad to meet you”.
The only way to receive support is when your home is collapsing is to tear down the fences and barriers that stop the people coming in to help you. I found hundreds of people with whom I had no connection who are willing to help in ways not understandable until you have walked that road.
It is your choice, who is behind the camera. It is always your choice. To give love to a partner, family, and friends is only truly possible if you feel loved by them.
Your God may guide your feelings, but true love only comes from within. To appreciate the love you give to people, you at first have to appreciate yourself being worth this love.
Strip away the labels of those who support you. Yes your Father or Mother support you because you’re their son/daughter. But the heartbeat of that support comes from the recognition of your worthwhile qualities.
My life is not perfect. I carry scars. I can sink into the dark abyss. But knowing why the people behind my camera support me is more important than just knowing who they are.
Good luck on all your journeys.
Creo que yo misma. No cuento con nadie que me aga levantar cuando estoy mal. La verdad que creo que nadie se da cuenta. Deveria ser actris porq nunca nadie sabe [ni mi esposo!] el estado de animo en el que estoy.
yeah!! the staff is huge___parents simblings friends, etc____but there is one leader behind them and im not sure about the name, I will call it, God, then almost all of you could get what i mean..
no one supports me, i think its not even necessary.
initially what help you to follow your heart is your will power and attitude.
Einstein said “Thanks to all of them who said no to me, because of them i did it myself”.
But if you have anyone to support you, its like a feather on your cap, so dont loose the one who support you.
My family supports me in my life.
Thanks for every one.
I am fine.
I following my dream.
Although will encounter the difficulty,
But I enjoy my life.
the only one who support me is my late father. too bad, i won’t see him again……. cause i love him very much
In who support me. My first answer is no one. I would be very hesitate to say my parents ever morally supported. They did supply me with food and shelter. Their unloving natural may be a product of their own up bring. I later realized that only one of women in my life fit the description of a girl friend and she indeed did care about when we were together. But events separated us. By the time I realized she was the best choice it was too late. I had friends from my days in the Marines, training Hap Ki Do and friends who were artists and cartoonist. They were very helpful and I enjoyed their company. When I think about my family and friends, my family are heavy weights burdens costly and are unhelpful. My friends were enjoyable, helpful to me and I had no problem in helping them. However several years ago my sister pasted away in the process I inherited her children. Inherited the children had ended most of my friendships.
The neighbors, the children friends parents and some others had been helpful with nephew and niece.
However I knew a long time ago they was no help. I could never rely on my family. If they ever did help, it would never be worth the price. My family always says I did not have right to a live or to life my dream and did everything in the power to stop me. It angered them that they could not actually stop, only deny their support
My late beloved mother. She passed years ago but she made me to be always a better person and not to lost hope and always to pray to God. God abides everything you do…
Dear Paulo,
may be its very hard for you to understand me, But I haven’t now anybody for supporting me. Some times ago I even decided to make suicide, and i was very sad, and walk trough bookshop and saw your book the Zahir. and i started to read it there in the bookshop, bcs i didn’t have money to buy it. after this i came this bookshop three days to read the Zahir. and in one time my life start going up. all people starting look at me different, i feel all people stood more kindly. and i met some people who start to help me, whome i met first time in my life. after some times and find little bit money and i bought The Alchemist…I’m just finish it today morning…and Now I know that I have very big power which i can use to do my life better. I startig to listen the Voice of my soul, and tried to understand the Language of World.
Thank you, bcs My Alchemist, who guide my during my way are You Paulo. you gave me new life, new hopes and new opportunities for doing my life more meaningfull. Allah Blesse You.!!!
Thanks a lot Sheela,
It was Great, but I think its too late, but anyway I’m thanks God, and Master Coelho, That i found the meaning of my life.
thanks for all.
God, my parents, my husband, souls of light from the invisible and visible worlds. I feel them in my heart and mind. And last but not least, my inner self, the Spirit, God’s love and also the almighty energy of life which is everywhere. All these always give me strength and determination to go on the good path, that of enlightment and evolution. Namaste. :o)
Lots of love,
Carmen Larisa
Never did I dream as a young mother that my children would become adults who would offer me such wonderful, practical advice out of love that we all share as a family.
Aloha,
Emma Howard
Kailua, HI
Through my life my family has been my support system. But as I’ve grown older and dream bigger than high school science fairs. I’ve met someone that not only supports me but believes in me! My husband is pure love and support. He trust me and is always there behind me. Pushing me, advicing and encouraging me.
My best friend, the one behind the camera
Mi Amor, Antonio S.
ps. greeting Paulo! saludos amigo~
Oh, yes all life we have any support near our.
When child my parents,
When teenager our rebelliousness
When young our illusions for love
When you are parent our illusions for our children
And some time when you are alone our illusions of ephemeral love…
In our works to show the best for our pairs
My parents! They’re far from perfect but they have supported me in everything I do, and I’m forever grateful. :)
Mostly my nearly wonderful husband, sometimes a family member, a friend, a flower, a smiling baby, a cloud in the sky and so on…
Ideas, which get and did not get jet materialized.
Usually nobody actually…God and myself. And now, as a mother, my 2-year old sun is my “motor”.
The story of my life was while being a little girl: “take care of yourself as soon as possible, as nobody cares about you, quite the opposite: others need you, no matter what your age was”.
It sounds quite sad, but that kind of motivation made me become a very optimistic and “tonic” person, to be admired for my courrage and my force to do things, create things, save people from certain difficult situations…
Hello,
Nice to join with Paulo’s fans from all over the world.
My first and the greatest supporter in my life is my dearest father as well as the mother since she gave a great support to father.
Next is my own spirit. Also I like to should say that Paulo also a main supporter in my life specislly through the ALCHEMIST.
Love you all,
Upul
Sometimes along life’s way you meet people and you understand the reason they do certain things which if looked superficially would just appear mean or would hurt…but then as time passes by you realise the meaning behind every little thing…and you realise that they had been there all along…right beside you.
My biggest support- Batthe Kanchha.
“Things just won’t do without you”
My friends (you really don’t know how much I care and cherish your company), the people I love, the people I admire, paulo coelho, swami sukhabodhananda, the God that I pray to, Kisagotami and her story, various people like srishti and her blog, strangers who smile and talk to me, strangers who smile in public pointlessly, happy people who are pleasing to be around with, artists like the Snow patrol, Plain white t’s, poets of the fall (lift), staind (believe) and so many, many more!
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Of course, my family (especially dad) and my dearest beautiful boyfriend with the most gentle soul i have ever known.
The nicest feeling is when a stranger takes the time to say some kind words…namely a florist i recently met.
There is not enough of this in our world.
The entire of the universe…
Tengo gente a mi alrededor que es mi apoyo en la vida, mi papá, mi mamá y mi esposo, son los principales, y tengo tres amigas aqui en la ciudad y dos que están fuera. Claro que esto es porque uno no puede estar solo y ser autosuficiente. Para mi es importante que la gente que quiero se preocupe por mi y me brinde su apoyo.
I will have to say that behind my camera first of all is God, he is the one that sustain me daily no matter what I have to deal with. Then comes my family and my friends. Lately I found out that even my children are providing me with some kind of support when I need it the most. I also find support in the writing works of gifted people like you that let me see possibilities where I thought there were none or offer me guidance in matters I have no experience in.
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My wonderful husband first of all. Then, don’t laugh, my dog! He is very often the exact thing I need at the end of the day after taking care of very sick patients. I love my job as a nurst but sometime I just need, well….a friendy greeting and a silly wagging tail.Hmmm, what else supports me? When I think about it my job really. I know that I’m helping people and when I see how my actions really do cause a positive change or reaction then that is a pick up, a support for me. Then there are simply the times when my husband is away for a week due to work, when I have nobody to support me. That’s when I support myself. Sometimes out of necessity I can be my own best friend, know what I mean?
In the last days I think I found a new very precious friend. Really feel that his attention and infinite patience, as well as his kind way of being is giving me support. Wonderful feeling.
My dad: not always emotionally but certainly financially. To him I owe everything in the sense that he has given me many invaluable luxuries – time to write, to reflect, to travel, to spend the first six years of my daughter’s life with her uninterrupted…. My dad is not rich by any means, but I see how hard he has worked all his life so that I could have it much easier than he did.
My grandmother: she is the one who always cheers me on when I am down. When the odds are not in my favor, she cheers even harder. When I lose a battle, she is the first (many times the only) to pull me aside and offer some word of condolence or some small token of affection just to let me know that, in her eyes, I am still wonderful.
My friend Cyd: she is 100% there for me and always on my side (even when I am wrong). Not very many friends, if any, have I ever had like her.
My friend and my daughter’s Godfather, Rasim: he somehow puts up with the worst of me and still smiles. He also scolds me when I need it, which is a great benefit to have in a friend.
My friend Vibuti: one of the wisest people I know. One call from her always sets me back on my path, no matter how far from it I have strayed.
My friend Massimo: who is like a birthmark that I just can’t seem to get rid of, no matter how hard I try. We seldom see one another and sometimes go for months without talking, but this seems to make no difference at all. It only highlights the fact that we seem to be as inextricably linked together in this life as a set of conjoined twins.
My daughter: if I get the tiniest injury or feel the slightest bit ill, she makes me lie down on the sofa, puts a pillow under my head, covers me with blankets and showers me with soft words and caresses.
My dogs: an hour with them all the cares of the world seem but a distant dream. It may seem strange to say that they “support” me, but they truly do, on some deep psychological level. When we are together, we are truly like a “pack” – everyone has their role, their position to play, and all communication takes place on some deep primal level that is beyond words. I just feel at home in my own skin when I am with my dogs and that intense sense of belonging is something that I have never experienced with any group of humans no matter how close I was to them.
Lord Shiva: there are many faces of God/the Goddess, but Shiva is forever my closest companion and the divine manifestation to which I relate most closely, and this has made all the difference in my life. My belief in and sense of his constant Presence is what gives meaning to my life, even when all the events and circumstances with which I am faced otherwise seem senseless.
My twin sister — without her I would be an incomplete person…God brought us to this world together, so whatever dreams we have in this world, we have them together.
My best friend in Japan — the person who makes the whole world disappear and time hold still when I’m with him, because everything is more beautiful around him
God supports my life. He gives it a special meaning every second of it with the love of my daughters, the people around me…teaching me that the only important thing among all is LOVE.
My father.:)
My partner Jax, always, even when I am at my worst… and my dad.
Who supported me?? My son, who was a teacher of life and fortress after a figth of 3 year with cancer (who died -bravely- 2 years ago), my daugther, my closest friends, God and of course myself I think…..Also all your books and writting who makes me a better person
Dear Elis, I am sure your son is still supporting you, being an angel.. These are the moments that you ‘feel’ a breeze in your heart, a warmth and a feeling that you are together always. It is the breaking of the barriers of the material world..
May God bless you and give you the courage to carry on..
LOVE,
Thelma.
Elis, you say that your son fighted bravely… I can see how brave YOU are as well.
Let me hug you.
Love,
Rossana
first is God
then my parents, siblings, friends, lots of people i’ve met and never forget, and you Paulo :D
my mother is my pillar of support in daily life
but her mother is behind her and so me also
and her friends are behind her and so me also…
my grandmother’s mother’s legacy also lives on and supports the family…
and so it goes on.
So this is why having less troublesome daughter/sister in laws is a god-send… in my opinion …. because then we do not ALL fall.
.. perhaps it is the circle of life which supports me
and we are merely players ;o)
I forgot the most import thing:
Mr. Paulo Coelho supports me.
Mein Schatzi, he is.
my parents. love
My dog, Ziska, female, supports me, because my husband has very often a different opinion to mine, and attacks me. So, when we finished our discussion and my husband has left, Ziska, consoles me, with love.
Thank God, she is not a male.
não tenho ninguém que me apoie , as vezes me sinto perdida , mas quando isso acontece respiro fundo dou um enorme sorriso e desfarço a ponto das pessoas acharem que sou a pessoa mas feliz que elas conhecem , não tenho ninguém para me dar colo quando preciso nem me aconselhar quando estou perdida, mas sou a pessoa por traz de muitas outras , a procura de algo que só existe em contos de fadas.
Por isso admiro tanto vc Paulo …… seus livros me fazem bem e vc me transmite a paz quando me desespero.
Grande bj.
its true, you don’t know who really supports you until you find your self in a crisis!
First , without God’s support we cannot be!
then, my loving family:father, mother and sisters
my friends, only a few of them.
sometimes i find support in strange places like: my garden, books and sometimes a child’s smile :)
Hi.
I’m an IRANIAN girl and i love your books very much.I wanna tell you something: you are one of the best writers in the world.I’d like to read your latest novel.I’m wondering if you could send me an email or reply my comment in your blog. Thank you very much.
Who really supports you don’t know until you are in an extreme situation. As long as you function perfectly you always find people to support you, but if everything in your life is out of order you will find out who is really behind you. I was in such a distress and made the wonderful experience that I could totally rely on my family (which means my husband, my daughter, my brothers, my father, my parents-in-law and my brother-in-law).
Mama e Papa me suportam
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