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83 Responses to “The Other Half”
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i believe there is only one other half… and that one other half destiny can give you if you are lucky enough… Usually the other half is achieved through much struggle,
i do not understand why, yet just as the whole universe conspires to give you that which you want badly, in case of the other half, the whole universe sort of tests your will to ACHIEVE it through a struggle…
then that struggle becomes your legend.
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hi everyone,
i have read brida and i loved it.it says that we can have more than one soul mates.i am in love with a guy but he betrayed me.now it has been 5yrs and still i am not able to accept anyone in my life. whenever i think of someone else, i end up thinking my past.i wonder if i would be able to love again. please help me friends i need your say on this.hoping for a reply soon.
with love,
naveli
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the other half is “the other side of the world”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTiLET_dAro
love
Chris
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Dear Paulo
How many other halves can we meet in a lifetime?
Love
Adriana
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Dear paulo,
In Brida you write of several things that has been on my mind since I was six years old. (now 35) I find it amusing that others as your self have putt these thoughts in to words in a book.
When I read your book Brida this summer 2009 I started to wonder if maybe I was not just fantasising as a six year old? I mean if more people feel the same, think the same maybe it means something?
Most of the time I try to live here and now, but my daydreams are with me always as if they are a second reality to me. So far this has been my own personal and very privet retreat from reality, never really felt like sharing it until after reading Brida. You are too close to my second reality and now I want to know more – maybe that could be a way for me to understand myself better?
The things you wrote about that caught my attention are:
The splitting of the souls (universal soul)
Teachers and students (lonlyness)
The other half
When I was six years old I had a dream. I was in space and all darkness around except for a large floating materia. The materia was black but glistening like dimonds – millions of dimonds. It’s movement looked like the waves of the ocean, very peace full and beautiful. To me it ment all of the universe’s life gathered in one place. Then it split up in to particles and each particle was a light or dimond. They left each other to fall in to all living things, trees, humans, animals, flowers, oceans, stones what ever we see and can touch there was a dimond settling in that. My own theory at that time was that “soulmates” where dimonds that had been close to each other when the materia was in one piece. And when we liked people instinctively here on earth it meant that those souls had been close in the whole piece or had been near to us in the time of creation. This was my fantasy. Even if it is different to what you write, it is not too far of. You still speak of a whole mass that split up into all living things. But you do not describe trees and other life forms.
Regarding teachers and students, I have always felt like a muse. I give as much as I can to those I meet and I love when I can help them in any way. This probably sounds stupid but some times I feel like I see inside others, I can tell them what is too obvious for them to do, and they think this is help.
I just never had the same experience happening to me. I am in need of help too. Some times I pray that help and understanding will come my way because I feel lonely. And that brings me to your book again. You wrote that the Magus had been sentenced to loneliness until he could learn his lesson because he made a mistake.
Some how I found comfort in that. Maybe I have to be lonely to learn some thing important? But to be honest, I am tired of loneliness at this point. I don’t mind it some times, I am getting good at it. Travelling alone, eating alone, sleeping alone and so on. I have lots of friends during the daytime, but it ends there. And I do so much want to believe that I too have a other half.
Observing
Always I think of people as humans. They are humans an I am one observer. When they project love, humour and other loving human feelings I can laugh out loud for my self. It makes me happy. But then again said, because I too rarely take part in that my self. I want to be a part of that, a part of a family, have children and fall a sleep by the side of a man that I love and who loves me. But more and more I feel like the muse, inspiring others, helping them and then to go home alone, again. To what purpose I ask my self? I hate to sleep, it makes me sad. So I stay up late, writing, painting, watching TV, films, surf the Internet until I am exhausted and simply fall asleep on the sofa with all my cloth on. Happens at least 4 times a week. Bad habit, I know.
The other halves,
If your theory is true, we split our souls many times, and they always split into male and female. That means that we have other halves that are of the same gender as our selves. Since we can not mate with them, what do they become to us when we meet them? Best of friends? Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters? Do we recognize them? We should, since they are a part of our complete soul, I would think. In my life I have some how always believed in soul mates. What ever is true I don’t know, but there are people that I liked in an instant and those are some how always near by after that. At least we humans have the possibility to love and to get attached, some more and some less. We also some times feel the other way, hate, fear and discussed by others. What does that mean? That they are too far away from us in the universal soul? That they are bad carma from another times? Why I ask my self? Are they newly baked souls trying to learn compassion? Is it hard in the beginning to learn compassion? Is that why we are here, to learn to love? I really hope so. Love is great and I strongly believe that giving love makes it grow in all of us.
I don’t know if I am expecting an answer to this at all. But if there is a question hidden in the text above it would be: Am I here to help others and to die alone? Is that my purpose here on earth?
Thank you Paulo for writing so beautifully that gives me an opportunity to escape the reality in such a southing way.
Karin
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marie-christine Reply:
August 29th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
can we meet in the sea of tranquility?
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Karin Reply:
August 29th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
marie-christine,
I don’t know what that means. Will you explain to me, please?
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Marta Adriana Reply:
August 30th, 2009 at 3:19 am
Karin
I loved your comment. You’re a pure soul, I can see that . I love the way you opened your heart to us, thank you for that. Most peole hide their doubts and despair because they make them appear weak. I don’t know what to tell you to confort you because I myself desperate now, but I’m with you.
Much love
Adriana
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Karin Reply:
August 30th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Marta Adriana,
Thank you for understanding. I can only speak for my self but I am sure hiding things will not help anyone. Acknowledgment is the key to change what ever it is. And after that a decision that leads forward. I am sorry to hear that you are desperate, that must be hard, and it is so often destructive. I have learned that even how desperate things get, some how I always come out on the other side, stronger, with new learnings about your self. Even if I came out with a stronger mind I am still me, and still quite the same but hugely different at the same time. I don’t know how to explain that. But I know my self better now, and I have left stress behind me in a way I did not think possible for me. I used to think that everything was so final, but it never is, we can always change things, ask for forgiveness, apologize or pick up the phone and say hello. Renegotiate with life.
Even if difficult things keep happening to all of us, I look at it from a distance now, and that is a good thing. Really we should ask our selves: What is the worst thing that could happen? And then let that answer sink in and deal with it. That calms me down. Knowing is better then not knowing. Making a decision gives me peace. Not knowing is like driving without a destination, makes you crazy. We need goals, directions and dreams.
I hope things turn out fine for you and that you soon can leave the desperate feelings behind you. To me, you do not seam like a week person, you did acknowledge that you are in pain, so the first step is taken and now you need to deal with it. I am sure you will do fine.
All the best to you.
Karin
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Marta Adriana Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 2:58 am
Dear Karin
Thank you for your kind reply, I’m not desperate today.
Instead I read an inspiring book, slept more than I do and practiced The Seed Exercise, so I was born anew.
I used to be a happy person till I found my soulmate. I’ve been struggling hard to keep peace within a whirlwind, sometimes I manage to do that, sometimes I can’t.
My problem ,I know , is attachment to love . The thing is he asked for time for him to decide wether to continue with our relationship or not. I think I’d manage a “no” beter than this slow death .
Truth sets you free.
Yesterday was a hard day and your comment touched me deeply, it was so sweet and naive,you were so interested in knowing if you were to stay alone or to be with your other half. So I told you I’m with you because your quest is the same as mine.
I understand how you feel. And I’m with you.
Lots of love
Adriana
Malin Robertsson Reply:
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Dear Karin,
Friendship takes time, but in some situations friendship grows faster and that is when we have a task to solve together with others. And love is always around the corner. I did meet my soulmate, but we did not end up together, but I have still a lot of love in my life and there are many people out there to love and to get loved by. But keep looking and you will find.
Love Malin
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Antonio Reply:
October 10th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Dear malin!
As you describe is friendship sometimes easy to develop and sometimes it takes long time to get a deep friendship ona higher level, for example when you let your love be your best friend and doing a lot of things together as partners and friends!
I met my soulmate not so long ago, we had good times together even if there where different people trying to separate us from each other or other things around us trying to change our opportunities for having a future together. Anyhow, when everything was clear for building a future together somehing new came to the arena, her fear. I Hadn´t seen it so clear before, Her history was that everyone partner earlier hade been doing bad things against her, and now everything she wanted to have have come true and it was to good, the relation, the love I gave her and fantasticsex where we climbed to the higher levels. She said a lot of times that I was her soulmate and I felt the same about her, and she had found the right man she said, but insted of talking about the fears and develop the relation together, she let the fear take over and she destroyed everything we had, took the easy way and went away. I can still feel the connection to her and her soul, sometimes I hear her soul calling in the silence. I still love her with all my heart aa I never done before so I hope she will put the fear away, letting the love be the way she walks and hopefully makig that call or sending an sms, I miss you so give me the sign of light so I can find home and if she still have fears we can handle them together hand in hand…
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Linda Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Dear Antonio!
It sounds that you and the woman you describe where really soulmates but she wasn´t sure about that so she tried to escape instead becuase of the fear insted of relaxing an be calm and trust you in the situation. Not everybody has the courage to stand up and take the fight for the real pure love, that could be because of their background och something traumatic but one day when they meet themeselve maybe theywill understand. Not everybody can see that they maybe have found their soulmate and already have him or her in their life, they believe many times that they will find him or her in another person. Malin describes it like there is lots of love around the corner, yes and no, I believe like you antonio that the real, deep, pure love and trust will develop and grow when you do it with your partner and open up your heart without fear. I hope your woman can hear your soul calling on her, she can set the light back from home and that she will answer in such way she can och have the courage to do so your love can grow again and you can be the soulmates for each other.
Love Linda
emma underwood Reply:
September 19th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
dont confuse your soulmate for a balance partner, you can have more than one of these at a time very much necessary to progress spiritually but if you think youve found your soulmate your in for trouble.
some of us see the bigger picture more than others, it will all amount to the same thing one day of which we will all just have to wai and see.
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Karin Reply:
September 19th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Dear Emma,
I am sure I have not met my soul mate, I would have known, I think, and that is what it is. What my concern is is that I feel lonely, I can’t find a man to connect with. I am not even sure I am actually looking for that. I just know I am tired of living alone. I almost always work and find lots of joy in that. Just want to share some things in life with someone, talk to someone and feel a close connection. Friends say I should go out more and meet people in bars, but this is not my style. I do not like night clubs, there is no way to talk to people there. Shout, this sounds sad, but I am not sad really. But it would be nice with a change soon. Maby it will come? Like you said, we just have to wait and see.
All the best!
Karin
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Sir,
I want to ask that whether having sex with a friend a crime if you know that she’s not going to be with you in the life that is awaiting you in the future? I am in a big dilemma and not able to decide whether I love the girl or not as in case of Brida and her boyfriend.
Please help me out in this.
Love
Nipun
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Namaste,
The other half is, perhaps, an old concept, but an odd one to me. I see us all as parts of a puzzle. Perhaps that’s why we can meet many of us through our various soul mates. I don’t know if that’s true about the light, but I love the concept. It takes romance to a new level.
I wondered about Wicca’s observations to herself when Brida asked about meeting more than one soul mate. If the Magus did not have that light nor did her lover for whom she left the Magus, why did she have such a thought. She knew her heartache from two men who were not her soul mate and didn’t express knowledge about her actual soul mate. I don’t really know how to express my confusion there but it made me wonder more about Wicca and her soul mate. Perhaps when a Trinity of Soul Mates are united it’s her situation squared.
Anyway, I loved this explanation of our interconnection as humans. I’m still meditating on this concept.
Love to you
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Dear Paulo,
Brida is my favourite of all your books…
I first read it quite a few years ago, and re-read it again and again from time to time. I found it by chance at the perfect moment in my life, and your story went direct to my soul since I felt like I was reading the story of my life…and my Other Half…
He’s been for more than a decade both my Magus and my Other-Half…Revealing, sharing, teaching, letting us go appart and returning to my life again and again…
and it’s funny how he never calls me by name anymore, but calls me Brida ever since I recommended the book to him…
We’re going through a bad crisis right now, but I know that even if we are not to be together again, he’ll allways be my Other Half and I’ll always be like Brida… and I’ll re-read my story reflected in your book each time i’ll go throuhg its pages…
How can you do that? Catch and communicate the essence of the people and the feelings so you reach every soul and make so many people feel aware?
Congrats for your talent, and thanks for sharing it :-D
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Anabel Reply:
August 21st, 2009 at 12:33 am
P.S. in what refers to finding more than one “Other Half”… in my case, we both have felt 2 or 3 times we’d found some one else… but in the end we’ve always ended up together again every time after… Can one “Other Half” be always more intense than others, no matter if we still think can have more than one soul mate?
i guess only the Universe can have the answer :-) I’ll keep waiting to see if my answer comes…
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I’ve read Brida a yeah ago. And somehow I felt afraid of the concept for the several soul mates we might have.
And still… this is a book I cannot forget. I even feel like living it. With all the joy and pain in the similar story. I’ve never thought this might happen to me - to be at a crossroad, but it happened. I experienced some troubles and I had to start over lots of thing, to change my location and to have a new beginning. I start searching for me and my own path.
Than I met someone who seemed to be the ordinary guy, giving me attention, but not fully understanding me. And some months later I met the other, who I felt as a teacher. At the first sight no one felt tempted by the other but it came with the time our friendship got deeper and deeper. He walked me through some paths finding who I am. And it happened.. we both wanted each other.
And now I feel like choosing between being with the teacher who is ready to give and to share; and between the pupil who has what to learn from me. And the several times I’ve tried to stop my connection with anyone of them, I felt like my soul is crying. All the time I had the feel of joy, it was followed by the pain in me. Is that the prise?! And how it is possible to choose which one is yr soul mate?
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Marta Adriana Reply:
August 14th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Lu
It also happened to me. The book led me to meet one of my other halves. However, it was only one. I think, it might be that you found two at the same time just as Brida did.
I think is really interesting because you want to be with both of them. Some people can manage to do that, others can’t.
The only thing you can do is to follow what your heart whispers.
And , yes, love is always going to take you to both heaven and hell.
Blessings
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Lu Reply:
August 14th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Thank you, Marta!
The strange thing is that the only time I can feel or hear my soul is when it’s crying.
I know whatever I choose, it will be crying. I just don’t know which is the right choice, so I’ll try to follow the Paulo Coelho’s words from his last newsletter: “the Universe is still working for us secretly, even if we cannot comprehend it” and I’ll wait and accept what is going to happen.
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Marta Adriana Reply:
August 15th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Maybe you don’t need to choose.
Maybe there are no right choices.
Maybe all the choices are right.
“What I do know is that meeting that man left me feeling more confident, and showed me I was still capable of loving and being loved, and it taught me something I’ll never forget: finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.”
Mother words in Brida.
Blessings
Lu Reply:
August 19th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I’ve hoped for too long someone else to make the choice instead of me, or the situation to make it happen. But I’m the one who has to decide. This is an enormous duty.
There is no other way, because living in between hurts too many people.
I’m lucky for meeting one of them, because he showed me what love is.
I’m happy for meeting the other one, because he showed me what I’m afraid of.
Ara Reply:
September 13th, 2009 at 7:53 am
You are not alone, Lu. We seemed to have same dilemma. But, I am almost giving up with this situation to keep on repeating and repeating in my life. It’s a very tiring experience to cry every I decide. wish I can live this life without having to decide anything… but just simply live…
When I read this novel,i was a bit dissapointed about the idea,that we can have more than one another half of you,If really I still believe that we have only One The Most Important Another Half or soulmate or whatewher.And also I have a question. Can you help me to understand what Brida meant when she asked Wikka question that only one part can understand who is she?
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I just finished reading “Brida” and I have to accept that I was kind of dissapointed with the end because it left me with more questions than answer. If Brida was the Magus’s sould mate why didn’t she loved him? Isn’t been a person’s sould mate as been the other half? the love of their life? what is the message? Paulo please…
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Marta Adriana Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Dear Zuleika
The first time I read it I was also dissapointed. This happens because we were taught that we can only be happy if we have the loved one by our side, which means that love comes true when we own the person we love. This is not like that. I came to realize this the worst possible way, through the suffering of loss of my other half. The main moral of the book concerning the other half is that Love has no posessions or as Paulo states Love is freedom, and we cannot manipulate it to make it fit our own desires. Besides, remember that Brida was not in love with The Magus. She says:” I don’t yet know my love for you but I do love you”. She is in love with Lorens and it turns out that Lorens is another one of Brida’s halves because The Magus is able to see the light on his left shoulder. He calls out Brida at The Sabbat, but the one who turns about is Lorens. So The Magus willingly lets go Brida and the realization that he’ll always have Brida because he cannot possess her is his other half main teaching. Please, Zuleyca, don’t you think that I’m showing off , I’m just explaining this to myself too, because the loss of my other half happened recently and I’m crying and telling this story to you and to whomever wants to listen to because I need to let it go to enjoy my love without pain. Thank you for your question. I’m trying to let the Virgin to guide my love in the right direction without me worrying about it and to keep faith that another one of my other halves will be soon by my side.
Love
Adriana
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Asja Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Dear Adriana!
When I read your last words, I can feel your pain.
You wrote: “…because I need to let it go to enjoy my love without pain.” That’s the way I did.
Today I am in love with a wonderful man and every day I hold my hands up to the sky to thank god for sending me this angel. But I still love HIM. Deep in my heart, in my soul there is this love, no longer waiting for coming true, but still a part of me.
He touched me so deep. He changed my life, my world, my love. And my worst enemy is the bitterness… I have to fight against it every day of my life, but it’s becoming easier from day to day.
The pain will stay, but you are getting used to it.
Love to you…
Asja
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Marta Adriana Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Thank you very much for your support.
Love
Adriana
Zuleika Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Hey,
Thanks for the replies. I know what you mean Adriana when you said we need to set the person we love free. But I always had the understanding that our soulmate would feel the same for us because he/she is our other half,a part of ourself that’s why is call “soulmate”. Moreover, I know exactly how you feel about losing the person you love, the only advice I can give you is that time is the answer for everything, give time to time. I will not asure you you will stop loving him but it helps a lot.
Take care and always think there is someone out there waiting for you, you just have to meet eachother!
Maria Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
when u meet ur soulmate, in this special union ur soul is deeply touched by ur other half…its a wonderful experience eventhough he is not with me i share his joy n suffer the pain he is going through…i hope he returns someday ,,,through our union i realised the capacity to love someone more than ur ownself n to give ur self fully when i time comes…we neve even shook hands but a very powerful force surrounded us….i hope everyone experience this especial feeling n be prepared fully when the time comes….
francesca Reply:
July 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
dear Adriana,
I understand how you feel and I think it’s wonderful you are able to this in this light. You must really love a person to do this. This whole experience taught you something about what love is. To love someone is never useless. Bless you. And Yes, new love is on it’s way again!
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Marta Adriana Reply:
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Francesca!
Beautiful words, thanks a lot.
Blessings
Adriana
sabitha Reply:
August 6th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
DEAR adriana
i read brida recently and as your friend zuleica i too was a little confused and so i looked the blog . i dont know whether my reading is correct.i will like to share it with you. i agree that author wantd to convey the idea that we can love something without possessing it.and i also felt that the magus didnt accept brida because he wanted to repent a mistake he had done to another soulmate by killing her lover to have possession of her.after this incident ,to purify himself or to learn from his mistake he led a secluded life and allows brida to go with lorenz. i would like to know your valuable opinion….
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Marta Adriana Reply:
August 7th, 2009 at 3:59 am
Dear Sabhita
It’s a pleasure to give you my opinion.
I consider that the Magus separated the woman he loved at that time from a lover she had with his magical powers. This woman was not his soul mate, but he felt he couldn’t do without her.( I think this feeling is very common among people in love, and most of us have felt it. I myself felt it not so long ago. )
The thing is, he interfered with others’ free will by splitting them up with the aid of his powers . His Master punished him and that’s why he lived in seclusion when he met Brida.
He fell in love with her, but she had a boyfriend, Lorens, who turns out to be another one of Brida’s halves. He is the key to understand why he let go Brida. At the Sabbath, the Magus discovers that Lorens is another soulmate because when provoking the trance to see the light over Brida’s left shoulder the one who turns around is Lorens. And he instantly understands that he has to let her go, that he was doomed to meet his solumate but never to stay by her.
Sometimes, soulmates come to our lives not to stay with us , but to teach us something.
Freedom was the lesson he needed to learn, and this time he is mature enough to let go. I also think very important to point out that he does this not out of guilt , but out of wisdom and maturity. He is not punishing himself anymore. His final words point out that from that day on he was going to be more cheerful and enjoy the rest of his life the best way he could.
In regard to this I remember having read one of Antony de Mello’s books in which he stated that the source of our suffering is attachment. We confuse love with attachment and there is when suffering begins. In order to set us free we have to be able to love without attachments.
Hope it was helpful.
All the best
Adriana
Marta Adriana Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Dear Zuleica!
I’m a lot better now, it did worked telling my story to you because I’m really happy now, no suffering more pain. I just wanted to let you know that the other half may not love you the same way you do.
In my case, he wasn’t prepared to love me ,not because he did not want but the timing wasn’t right, I can see it clearly now, I saw his inner conflicts, his need of someone by his side to support him, I wanted to show him that he should pursue his dreams , but we didn’t have enough time, he had a gloomier view of life and his own explanations I couldn’t counter argue out of respect for his opinions.
So I decided to act subtler and for the anniversary of our first encounter two months ago I translated into Spanish “The conversations with the Master” I downloaded from this site, thinking they might enlighten him about things that really matter in life like The Personal Legend, The tedium, The Tragedy and others I saw he needed to read.
I burnt a CD with the file, a letter and a photo from me, and gave it to him, but I think he hasn’t read them yet. He’s kind of not interested in what I write to him. He says he doesn’t have time. I don’t blame on him, he was just not prepared.
And I still love him and always will and am very happy about our being together. I realized it was just time for me to wait, who knows , things might change for the future or they might not, the main thing I’m not sad anymore and I experienced a love that will never be lost and last forever.
Thanks for listening.
Love
Adriana
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Carolena Sabah Reply:
July 30th, 2009 at 2:40 am
Hello Marta,
What a wonderful gift you gifted. I’ve also read them and I was So moved that Paulo wrote them when I first saw them. I thoroughly enjoyed reading them.
Sounds like you had a Wonderful experience.
Blessings,
C.
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Marta Adriana Reply:
July 31st, 2009 at 3:31 am
Dear Carolena!
Thank you for your reply. I’ve been browsing comments on this site lately and I saw you’re a regular on this blog. Let me tell you I feel strongly attracted to read what you write, even though I don’t usually comment anything. You have Angel, as we might say in Spanish, meaning charisma.
I did had a wonderful experience with this guy. It kept me in ecstasy for about seven months. The first time we met it was at a dance and I felt the connection between us two inmediately. I’ve no doubt that if I were able to provoke the state that witches do I would be able to see the light on his left shoulder. What I feel for him is a mixture of Eros, Philos and Agape and Agape keeps from having any resentments. I think I’m still having a wonderful experience because the feeling is very strong despite the separation.
Well, it’s time to go.
May God bless you always.
Adriana
Carolena Sabah Reply:
July 30th, 2009 at 2:31 am
The message is Love, and how it can be both heaven or hell. Some people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime, and with each one, it’s a process of learning. Even if we are soul mates, as the description Wicca gave, one may have millions and millions of soul mates, we cannot stay with each one indefinitely, then we’ll never meet the other ones. And of course always, parting from love is painful, and how we can transform that pain, is alchemy.
Love is everywhere, it is everything, so, it is inevitable. Sooner or later, we meet love face to face, and where that love leads is a part of ones destiny.
Love, what a wonderful thing!
LOVE
C.
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Zuleika Reply:
July 30th, 2009 at 8:07 am
HI,
Adriana I’m glad you feel ok now. My experience was quiet different. I don’t know if he was my sould mate or not but he definately IS a big part of my life. In this case, I was the one who was not ready to love him, well not at that moment. We were too young and inexperinced. I wish him the best and really hope the person he is with now make him happy because he does deserve it. I would really like to read the books you mentioned, I tried to find it but could not. Do you know the names of the authors?
Carolena you are so right “Some people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime” and all of them come with a purpose and teach us something.
Take care!
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Marta Adriana Reply:
July 31st, 2009 at 3:51 am
Dear Zuleica!
It is so nice to read about your experience now that you know mine. That means ice has been broken and we can listen to one another in a freelier way. I don’t know if that word exists, but let’s learn languages through trial and error.
This is not a book itself , the titles mentioned like The Personal Legend, The tragedy and others belong to a series of conversations Paulo kept with his Master in the eighties. They are called “Conversations with the Master”. He found the notes when moving and asked from him permission to publish them.
I downloaded the file from this site not so long ago. They are in Adobe format under the name of WARRIOR OF THE LIGHT 2. When the blog changed its format, I think they removed The Free Texts part, but I don’t know for sure. Maybe they are now at the home page. I will look for them and let you know.
Love
Adriana
Carolena Sabah Reply:
July 31st, 2009 at 5:09 am
Warriors of the light 2?? where is that? I found them in the archives, under stories!
Marta Adriana Reply:
August 1st, 2009 at 1:01 am
Zuleica and Carolena
At the home page, there is a title that reads Free Internet Books. There are several free books there: The way of the Bow, Stories for parents , grandparents and children, and Three volumes of The Warrior of the Light. You can find ” Conversations with the Master” in the second volume .
Hope this is useful
Mucho amor
Adriana
Carolena Sabah Reply:
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:17 am
Marta,
I looked but ‘Conversations with the Master’ is not on that page! The other are. I got them from the archives, but it is not there where you are referring, unless I’m looking in the wrong section. But I don’t believe I am since the other books you mentioned Are there!
love
C.
Marta Adriana Reply:
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Dear Carolena!
I found the conversations you said in the Archives under Stories. They are the same that are in the second volume of the Warrior of the Light , you just have to open it. They are not under that name, they are in The Warrior of the light Volume 2. I hope Zuleica can find them in either place.
Hugs and kisses
Adriana
Carolena Sabah Reply:
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:07 pm
I see, that makes sense. God bless you!
sabitha Reply:
August 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
i read brida recently and as your friend zuleica i too was a little confused and so i looked the blog . i dont know whether my reading is correct.i will like to share it with you. i agree that author wantd to convey the idea that we can love something without possessing it.and i also felt that the magus didnt accept brida because he wanted to repent a mistake he had done to another soulmate by killing her lover to have possession of her.after this incident ,to purify himself or to learn from his mistake he led a secluded life and allows brida to go with lorenz. i would like to know your valuable opinion….
Once you recognise a loved one, you can never loose him/her anymore. Even when death takes this person’s body away from or visual world, even when your partner who you still love, leaves you to be with another person… When you really love a soul, it doesn’t matter if that person is or is not in your life as a human friend or partner. You cannot loose someone you love. You stay connected on an invisible level, although this person might reject you for the rest of your human life. All love will return to you one day. It might not be in this lifetime but where love exists it can only blossom and spread more love. Maybe sometimes we have to give up physical togetherness with our loved ones, but that doesn’t mean you give up on loving someone or that you loose someone. It is not because someone leaves you or someone dies that you loose someone.
It is not because you let some one go that you loose that someone, not in your heart:and what lives in the heart is the only reality that survives death and really matters in the end.
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Marta Adriana Reply:
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:40 am
Amazing!!! I completely agree with the way you think. Thank you for explaining it so beautifully.
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Asja Reply:
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:40 pm
This sounds really wonderful!! And I am very impressed and touched if people really could live it like this!!
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Yesterday I bought Brida again to be able to read it in English. I cannot help it , but read it over and over because every time I read it I find new wonderful thoughts I hadn’t notice the previous time. It sounds to me like heavenly music, and I know it led me to meet my other half whom I’ll also always remember just as the Magus says to Brida. Whenever I read it I cry out of a strong emotion because it touches me deeply. Thank you very much, Paulo , for delivering to us such a wonderful masterpiece . Lots of love and
may God bless you all!
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seriously i too deliberately want to know if this seeing the light on d left shoulder concept exists……so if anyone knows about it more please do drop don some details.
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Paulo Coelho Reply:
July 18th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
It does exist in the Tradition of the Moon, but I don’t encourage you to go for it. Try the normal path - take your risks.
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shagun Reply:
July 19th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Dear Paulo
thank you so much for replying.
when it comes to this soul mate concept i feel like wow…..and being honest to you i got to know it better from your book Brida only. by normal path does it mean to wait for my soul mate to come in my life and then me to realize that he is the one……..and if i fail to recognize him then i have to wait for another lifetime. can u please give some finer details about it………
it will really a pleasure hearing from you further
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Monica Reply:
September 20th, 2009 at 3:09 am
I have seen it - without trying, without even knowing about it. I just finished reading Brida and now I know what I saw. But, still I am unsure of what to do with the knowledge.
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We are always connected with those we love, no matter they are with us or not. It is just the matter of our choice whether we are fulfilled with joy that such person exists and we were so lucky to meet her/him at all, even for a brief moment, or drowning in grief.
We can even be unhappy being together with “The One” unless we are not working on relationship all the time. Sometimes we even lose her/him, just for the sake of learning not to make the same mistake in this life or the next, which is not a small achievement.
And there is also the funny thing that some people learn through peaceful cooperation and some of them through conflict (until they get tired, hopefully).
It is also good to know, in case we get separated, that “each end is the new beginning” and new challenge. If we, somehow, even manage to miss or lose “The One”, there is plenty of “The Other Ones” God mercifully places in our way. Only our own gloom, bitterness or lack of faith may prevent us recognizing them…
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francesca Reply:
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
so true!
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Goldmund Reply:
July 23rd, 2009 at 5:34 am
Sure it is :)
One should be joyful if the other one finds her/his path, which can even separate us at some point, just because she/he has found The Path! Finding our own path and daring walking along it takes great courage, which Fatima realized in “The Alchemist”, and let Santiago go.
So, the least we can do, if our “other half” finds it, is to give our support, even if that means the end of our relationship.
In fact, there is no end in relationship. It is just an illusion - if two people care about each other, they are energetically connected and support each other, although they might never meet again in this life.
“If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.” - Richard Bach
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Hildegarde Reply:
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:48 am
Dear Goldmund,
When I read in the Alchemist the passage about Fatima and Santiago I said to myself this is so courageous yes…to continue your path alone while two hearts become one.
She even didn’t try to interrupt his journey and this is so free and pure, giving Santiago her love to go on.
I thank you Goldmund…even when I lived this passage by my heart in the Alchemist I didn’t live it now in my life.
Thank you to set me free Goldmund.
xxx
ok i guess it is the right thing to do i mean even if you know it is your other half sometimes it is not that easy and you have to let him go i met him like 3 years and a half ago and i havent realized he was my other half but now i know it and it is too late so meet him to let him go it is difficult but it is better this way
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He was like a part of me… loosing him means to feel like loosing an arm or a leg… breathing was so simple when he was by my side… loosing him means to be breathless… he was my home… first of my lifetime I felt complete and quiet inside… it was like staying in the eye of the tornado, breathing after the years of breathlessness and finding my home, I eternally searched for…
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Svenja Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
this is so wonderfully said!
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Asja Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I think about him every day, since 3 years. But I have to let him go, like the magus do with Brida… It’s becoming easier meanwhile, but it’s like Paulo wrote at the end of the book: I will always remember him.
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Carolina Reply:
July 15th, 2009 at 2:01 am
I lived very similar love… I’ve wrote, in these days: “I would like to be like your arm, or your leg” because I felt like that. I understand you: We will always remember. But new love, sometimes, need conscious oblivion, return to childhood, like “reset” your soul, because that is the most important thing, which let you feel life and love, the soul. When you are empty of souvenirs love back to you, in your present, because we need to love, our body is soul’s house, and body needs love! Sorry about my bad english, but your words touched me.
Meeting your other half is not as romantic like a lot of people think!! It often means pain and confusion. Plato wrote something about it in his book “Symposium”… the story about the round man… perhaps you want read something about it… I searched the net and found a link in english (I am from Germany and I have to search a while, because I don’t know the english word for “Kugelmensch”). Please take a look here: http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/sym.htm
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Alexandra Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 8:56 am
well, we can see that from long ago people tried to explain our nature.thanks for sharing.
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I’ve been thinking the same..why let go Brida?? Is it enough just knowing that he/she exists and we could move further? The difficult part to deal with is the fact that once you’ve been really lucky to meet your other half you should understand that they do not belong to you…
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Asja Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Sometimes it is exactly like that: meeting someone to let him go…
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Rose Reply:
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:13 am
During their initial interaction, Wicca explains Soul Mates to Brida, describing a continuous splitting of the Soul of the World, as the physical population increases. This explanation allows for the possibility of multiple Soul Mates during a single incarnation.
Wicca stipulates that the soul always divides male-female, and she states that Love is the process of finding ourselves. My response to the question, “Why did Magus let Brida go?” ….When Magus alters his consciousness to locate Brida among all the people attending the initiation party, his awareness reveals the energy, the auras surrounding each, and he is searching for the light matching his own light. Yet when he sees and approaches the source of light, although he speaks the name “Brida”, it is Lorens who turns around. My interpretation of this occurrence is that Magus recognizes Lorens as a part of himself, even as Brida is part of himself. I believe he is willing to “let go” of Brida for two reasons: he realizes that, although not with one Soul Mate (Magus), she will be with another(Lorens); secondly, it is not the need of his soul to experience more with Brida. By recognizing her as a Soul Mate, he experiences love again, which reopens a path he had closed after his relationship with Wicca. Magus says to Brida, “You came to free me from the slavery I myself had created, to tell me that I was free to return to the world and to the things of the world…I will always remember now that love is liberty.” In the Witch of Portabello, Paulo references a poet, Gibran Khalil Gibran. In his work, “The Prophet”, on Love, Gibran writes, “Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.” On Joy and Sorrow, Gibran writes, “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” One last thought from “Emmanuel’s Book”, a favorite of mine: “In truth, when one is so determined to find the one eternal relationship, there is a weightiness that comes about the heart that disavows its own wisdom…There are many incarnations in which there is no place or reason for the one ultimate relationship…Souls come together, not to remain together in physical contact, but to grow. When this has taken place the gifts have been given and the lessons have been learned. So don’t you agree that it’s time to move on?”
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Marta Adriana Reply:
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:08 am
Wonderful! That’s the way I understood the Magus decision about letting go Brida.
Lots os love
Adriana
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I met HIM 3 years ago and I don’t saw a light over his shoulder, but I saw a ribbon out of light between him and me. It was like a connection from my solar plexus to his and its diameter was like the diameter of my arm. It seemed to be out of bright, white light and was weaved by small blue wires out of light. I am so sorry for my bad English, I try to explain my experiences and I hope you will understand.
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One thing I found very interesting and something that I had never heard of before is this idea of seeing a light over the shoulder of one’s soul mate. I am wondering if this is really a part of some tradition, or did you just make it up? Are there individuals who are really capable of perceiving this light?
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Ema Reply:
July 8th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Yes, for me this was very interesting too! I really like to know is this possible to see this little light over the shoulder of one’s soul mate. Or is it just to make the story more fascinating?
Please tell us Paulo :)
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Natalie Reply:
July 18th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
HI
I often see lights over peoples shoulders… Many peoples…
I think there are many soul mates… not just one. Daily in exchanges I see lights flashing… TOnight at least over 4 people…
I don’t think it’s just over this “special “one”
Lights for me are truth, connection “listen carefully” be present…
There help me ot know where to follow the energy!
Love
Natalie
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marie-christine Reply:
August 3rd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
You have to go into some sort of a trance Paulo said.
:)
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More, is that idea one that suggests the myth of the Androgyn, the perfect being?
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Savita Vega Reply:
July 8th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Yes, I’ve always been fascinated by the images of the Androgyn in art and religion, particularly in the visual art of alchemy. Here are a few of those images:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/img/14300.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3114/2619161333_589c88352e.jpg?v=0
http://occult-advances.org/images/Chakras_Johann_Georg_Gichtel.jpg
In fact, I think that’s what makes the Mona Lisa so compelling - it is the perfect depiction of an androgynous figure, with no line down the middle separating the two halves.
http://www.touchandchange.com/artman/uploads/monalisa.jpg
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Alexandra Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 7:18 am
WONDERFUL IMAGES, THANK YOU.
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Maria Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 3:59 am
Thank you for the images.
rosa de los vientos Reply:
July 13th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
I´m fascinated too, thank you for rememberance
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Marie-Christine Reply:
July 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 am
How interesting ,Savita !
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Once again, I could not understand why the Magus let go Brida. If they were two halves of the one thing, why they were not together? Or was enough one time???
I believe we all have to find our half and maybe one life is not enough. Hope still will be enough in my case…
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