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I found the song, Leona Lewis – I See You (Theme From Avatar)that echos Brida and the Magus~~~~ I believe that’s how we find our soulmates and there are lights shining in their eyes as written in the book.
I read Brida in July of this year and I found it fascinating , I felt the book really illustrated that we all have a destiny waiting for us like Brida and that our soul mates are a big part of that destiny. I have read some of the posts of complaints about the ending but I believe its the ending that makes the book honest. She found her soul mate and they enjoyed one another but just as the world spins so our destinies continue and so soul mates are separated.I enjoyed brida and felt like it spoke to me.
to tell the truth i found the novel boring…..it was a bit too strange….even though the zahir and the alchemist taught me very intersting things about life……
Brida was the second of your books I read, I have to say from the first I was hooked, I found it so enlightening in a way that makes you ask is it real or is it fiction. I think to be honest that is for the reader to conclude, I like to think it is real and loved the way I came across Brida in a later book, wonderful.
I thank you for sharing such joy with us.
I read Brida about one and a half year ago. It is such a wonderful book. While reading this book my mind became clearer and I felt that I got some answers to my life situation at the time. It helped me understand life better. I am so thankful for this book. It was such a gift to read it. Now, one and a half year later I think it is difficult to find the right words because when I read something it is an experience of the moment, and while it lasts more than a moment too, my mind forgets in time. Now I would like to read it again and I hope to discover it once more. Happiness, clarity, strenght, wisdom, courage, true to oneself, life, soulmate, magic are some of my feelings and words about the book. Brida is a magical book close to my heart.
Hello! Each book which is fallen to me into hands, связанна with my spiritual mood. In your books always I find answers, to the questions. Thank you for it! The big, simply huge your admirer)
About the book “Brida”. Speretichesky thought, sense searches… Likely everyone would like to possess improbable abilities… Reading the book, I am in similar sensations. Each book which to me was fallen into in hands, has always been connected with my spiritual mood. In your books always I find answers, to the questions. Thank you for it!
many time I think we are not looking for a soul mate but the one ourselves .if we dare see we’d see the lone in our own deeply heart then we want to find someone who can understand us who can appreciate us who can see us loneliness and console us ,when we found them ,we called them our soul_mate .but our soul have so many kinds of loneliness.that we always feel failure and disappoint at our soul mate that’s we beginning to search for another but no one can console our lonely except we know how console it ourselves till that day we would find our real soul-mate maybe it is just ourselves .
Whenever I read inspirational books or watch inspirational movies, about successful people, I want to be the lead character. However, they cannot motivate me enough to take action. They make me feel like a passenger who has missed the train.
When I read your books I want to be like The Shepherd, Maria, Veronika, Esther and especially Brida! Your books not only make me want to be like them, but also make me achieve my dreams. They make me feel that I have the capacity of accomplishing anything I want and it is never too late. 12 years ago, I read The Alchemist for the first time when I was 20 years old. I read Brida last year and it is already changing my life. I just want to thank you as one of the lucky persons who learn and gain many things from your brilliant books.
Amigo Paulo,
O Alquimista foi o primeiro de todos os livros seus que li.Passava por um momento de grande turbulência espiritual e por três vezes, seu livro chegou a mim. Mas como “tudo está escrito”, ele ajudou-me a encontrar o meu caminho. Acredito que temos dentro de cada um de nós um mago e uma bruxa em potencial, portanto sou a própria “Brida” e achei meu Anjo da Guarda quando li “As Valkíria”.
Obrigada amigo Paulo, por seres este escritor maravilhoso que faz com que possamos fazer nosso Caminho até Compostela, sem ao menos sair de nossa casa, ou o exercício da velocidade, aprendendo e conhecendo cada detalhe que passa desapercebido no nosso dia a dia, as maravilhas que Deus nos dá. Obrigada por você ter me ajudado a encontrar o meu caminho.
Que Deus te abençoe, e Maria te proteja.
Grande abraço.
Tenho certesa de que Brida é um dos mais lindos livros que depois do Diario de um Mago Claro!!! li…tive o praser de ler logo que saiu depois aprendi ler o Tarot..fui iniciada num coven Wicca no Rio de Janeiro e sou sua fã de carteirinha…leio td que vc escreve blog no G1 ..raro me comunicar mas agora esta registrado..rsrs
Mr. Coelho I think you are genius. The first book of yours I read was “The Zahir”
It was brilliant and totally different from many other books I have read before. Your sense
Of imagination and tying them to our everyday lives is brilliant. I got the “the Zahir”
from my daughter. She recommended the book to me and told me that I should read it
and how she loved this book and could not put it down once she has started it. True enough
The book was fantastic. I just finished reading my book on the way to the airport and so reaching the airport I went strait to the book shop to get another book for myself to keep me companied
during my travel and I was ecstatic to see another Paulo’s book on the self “Brida”
I don’t know what to write about “Brida” I am short of words; I only could scream BRILLIANT again. I love your books and intend to read all of them. I want to thank you for the wonderful books that you have written.
As one of your reader stated I too been so profoundly effected by the passage in this book
“How Wicca explaining to Brida that everyone questions the meaning of life. Why were we put on this planet?” I am happy that I discovered your books. Thank you very much again for giving us this wonderful gift.
I was really greatly impresed after reading this book. It was very useful for me, because I also want to find a real sense of our life and existense. I had a posibility to uncover many things which were ununderstandeble for me. I’ve finished reading ” BRIDA” yesterday and now I am looking forward to going to the shop and buying another one.
Recently I was a very talkative women but now I understand that the God is in our words and we should think carefully before saying.
You are a very skilful man, because you don’t say stetements, you say a verity(truth). You are not a guide, you are the edifier(as you write in your book)
Thank you for your books and yoour existense. You really help people to understand our beeing
Thanks for giving us Brida, after reading it I couldn’t read anything for few days as it has left its impact on me…. n I was enjoying it.
Sometimes I imagine myself to be Brida and that dark night frightens me.. sometimes I seems to be confused like her as I am also at the same stage where I have to find my own soulmate… and like brida even I can’t see the light above anyone’s left soulder. I wish if things can actually be like that I can also some day find my soulmate with that light…. Amen!
I don’t know what to write I am short of words… But from bottom of my heart I love your books and they seems to be reality for me. THANKS SO MUCH.
Dear Paulo,
Just finished reading BRIDA…I haven’t learnt a single new thing from your book rather it reassured me whatever I have already known but always doubted. Thank you to the Greater Power for reassuring me through your book through a wonderful man who referred me the book. When I was about to abandon my search for my Soul Lover, I was given the sign again never to Give Up. I wish my journey and the journey of others like me to fill our void, our lonliness will end someday soon.
Dear Paulo! my name is Ksenia, I’m from Ukraine.
I want to thank you for the wonderful books that you have written. I am 16 years old. philosophy, I got carried away not so long ago, and the first book that I have read was “The Alchemist”. I have read many of your books, not all, but I intend it to do.Influence your books, I began to write myself, friends say I have talent, but I think it’s you gave me a piece of your soul through your books.I promise to myself that I would write a book about love, but love is not just about two, about one of love to all world.Sometimes I wonder what how strongly you feel God it`s very hard, but you did it. I am happy that I discovered a writer for myself, as you. Thank you very much again.
wednesday afternoon i sat reading Brida outside a shoppingmall on the egde of a pedestrial flyover. i was waiting for my daughter. That flyover is one of the ugliest places in this city and i was glad to block it out and dive into your book. Then a man in a thick army jacket squatted down next to me. ‘Interresting?’ he asked, i nodded. ‘Whats it about?’
‘It’s about how to manage everyday chaos, it gives a little believe in that things make sense’, i answered.
Everything about him was square: his built, his glasses, his haircut and his thick golden ring too, with inscriptions in arabic. He talked about his work. He’s a gardener in the park nearbye, takes care of the childrens farm, walks the animals too. ‘The job is nice but my collegues are bad’. And he told me how angry he was, they had been talking bad about him behind his back. And now he was going to show them, he was not to be jocked about. They were going to pay for this.
i felt intimidated and thought about getting up and leaving. His anger felt so close and hot it made me very uncomfortable.
‘So if you think about elements, what would you say is the strongest?’ Looking for anything to distract him all i could come up was a line this. But without wondering about my weird question he said: ‘Fire! Fire is the strongest.’
‘And water?’ i asked, ‘doesn’t water extinguish fire?’
‘Then it’s water!’ his answer came as if out of a pistol.
i offered him a cigarette and as he lit mine we smiled in each others eyes. The fire was leaving him, returning to proportions, like into his lighter. ‘Or earth.’ he added. ‘Earth is the most powerful. You are earth.’
We smiled at each other again and he talked about how he once had dreamed of becoming an actor but realised the stage was nothing for him, how desperate he had been looking for the right thing to do with his life, living with his sick mother, poverty all around. But he had discoverd RAP, he said. ‘Right, a turkish 45 year old rapper – way to go man,’ i thought to myself. ‘RAP comes from the heart,’ he said and pounded on his chest with his fist.
i told him about this artist i know who had stopped working and how this almost killed him, how he started to destroy himself by destroying his works. ‘Creativity has to flow! You have to do something with it or it builts up in you and eats you.’
‘Yes, i have to do something with it!’ his eyes clung to mine and there was a pussle in them. But men can’t cope with pussles for too long, now can they, and resolution was close at hand.
‘No you can’t have my telephone number, no you may not kiss me. And i got to go anyway.’ i got up, he did too, he turned in direction of the mall, i turned in direction of the stairs.
i grinned at him.
geluk, hoop en liefde i said, – what a cheap sentence, like a message from a tatoo: luck, hope and love – where did that come from, i can do better than that, i shook my head at myself.
But as i walked town the stairs i realized that i had actually helped him deal with his anger, and it had something to do with your book.
amazing isn’t it how things seem to connect and flow about and before you know it, someone becomes unstuck and red anger changes into blue hope.
I have been so profoundly affected by a passage in this book (page 138). Wicca is explaining to Brida that everyone questions the meaning of life. Why were we put on this planet? Since this is a mystery that can never be answered, we need to find a way to accept the mystery. Our best option is to follow our dreams. This is how we create a meaningful life. Our dreams are the reason we were put on this earth.
I have recently began listening to the Universe. Occasionally, I can hear the sounds of nature. I am seeking my Personal Legend. I have received some signs that have given me an idea about my path, and that it involves working with animals (horses, in particular). I’m not sure how my path will unfold. But I am looking for my path.
Namaste,
Gillian
P.S. I am enjoying the gentle kindness that your books always inspire in me.
I got over with “Brida” a couple of days back. The ending didn’t really turn out to be as I was expecting it to be. Rather it was against my dreams and my imagination of the perfect dreamland I have always wondered about. The parallel universe I live in. I have never been in , well, a relationship or love. But, I have always believed that someday, I will meet my soulmate. All my life, till now, I have believed that you meet many people in your life, like then, get attracted to them, etc. Some you deeply like. But, you fall in love just once, with your soulmate and spend your life with that person. Now, after reading “Brida”, it’s ending, all that I have believed in, all my life seems to be not that true.
Can you please answer this one question, I can’t seem to find answer for… Why did Brida leave the Magus, ( rather, the Magus asked her to leave), when they knew they were each other’s soulmate and they were, I guess, in love as well??? Atleast, the Magus was..
I just want to know this because it has been days that I got over with “Brida”, but I have not been able to, rather, absorb the ending. Whereas, I believe I loved the ending, but I don’t think I’ll be able to accept it, untill and unless I know why it happened the way it did???
I did really appreciate if I can get an answer for this.
your books open up about a world,the world of magic….
even though it all seems fictional,i understand they have somewhere happened,u have somewhere experienced…..
ur words instill in me a deep search for the magic of life…..
and my curiosity wants me to look forward to learning magic……
i am in need of a master who can teach me about white magic……
i want to understand life and myself better……..
we all have a brida within us in search of our true loves and our deep meaning for life…….
Добрый день, Пауло! спасибо Вам огромное за Ваши творения!!!! каждое Ваше произведение приходит ко мне в руки в свое время. когда возникает неразришимая ситуация в моей жизни именно в ваших книгам я нахожу ответы на свои вопросы. Брида – открыла мне глаза я поняла очень многое что происходило со мной и было необъяснимо разумом. Благодаря Вам и Бриде я поняла и осознала многое в своей жизни.Удачи Вам и Ангела хранителя. С любовью и уважением, Ирина. (Украина)
I feel incredibly enriched and renewed after each read. It stirrrs my soul and my mind up. Really lovely. I promised myself that I am going to read little passages from your books at my yoga sessions. Thank you.
Да, почитать в оригинале конечно было бы хорошо, но я думаю что читая перевод тоже находишь много интересного.
В каждой Вашей книге есть особенно интересные мысли, некоторые из них заставляют задуматься…
Самое интересное еще и то, что Вы не пишите о чем то новом, неизвестном, а просто открываете людям глаза на то, что они уже позабыли, или отодвинули на второй план в своей обыденной жизни.
Спасибо Вам за ваше творчество!
Здравствуйте, уважаемый, Пауло Коэльо. Я ваша читательница из России. Мне почти 16 лет, я люблю читать, но увы у нас в стране велика проблема того, что подростки перестают читать. И я уже начинала входить в их число, так как книги в наше время перестали быть интересны. Зачем читать, если можно посмотреть фильм с крутыми спецэффектами или психологическим напряжением. Но однажды, на одной из социальных сетей я нашла фразу о том, что крайнюю книгу, уоторую прочитали многие люди стала “Алхимик” П.Коэльо. Меня это очень заинтересовала. В поисковике я нашла много информации про Вас и про ваши книги. Купив “Вероника решила умереть” мне очень понравилось Ваше творчество!!! Вы просто замечательно пишете. Конечно, наверное намного интереснее читать Вас на оригинальном языке. Нам, русским с этим повезло меньше((( Но я настолько пришла в восторг от “Вероники…” что решила прочитать каждую вашу книгу. Вчера дочитала “Брида”… она мне очень понравилась. Хотелось бы читать о вас всё больше и больше, спасибо огромное за то, что Вы есть!!!! С уважением, россиянка Евгения.
hola a todos y en especial a Paulo Coelho, creo q al igual q todos aveces no nos gustan los finales q tienen sus libros porq estamos acostumbrados al…vivieron felices para siempre, pero desgraciadamente eso no sucede en la vida real y eso es lo bonito de los libros de èl, porq nos hace poner los pies sobre la tierra, “triste pero real”, pues despuès de leer y pensar en el final q le da uno dice: es cierto, asì sucede en la vida real, yo no sè ustedes pero sus libros siempre siempre llegan a mis manos en situaciones parecidas a lo q se trata el ibro y me han ayudado mucho. Realmente me declaro fans de sus libros y gracias a dios por el don q le diò de escribir y saber llenar el alma con sus sabias palabras.
hola buen dia, pues nunca habia estado por aqui pero siempre hay una primera vez para todo.
bueno eres una persona que de verdad tiene el don de la escritura y creo que tus libros me han sorprendido y aveces hasta ayudado, de todos el que mas me ha gustado es el de brida, porque ella muestra que de verdad exixste el amor y bueno no solo se puede sentir amor asia una persona sino tambien a la naturaleza.
Each time I try to read Brida…I start over again …and stop in the begining where they met in the forest…& feel I don’t want to know the end of the story.
I adore the alchemist story so much!!!!
What am interested to tell :
I found three soulmates in my life with : a man who I name him My BlueSky,& he names me Sunshine, My Fraternal twin brother,& My Sweetheart
Unfortunately we still didnt meet on real life,But i will ,hope in future.
I am 25 years old,& He is in 50s i think coz i havent focus on his age,even i have it.( My relation with my family is good & he didn’t take place of my dad,or any member )
what am happy , that we are friends on the net ,phone ,around 6 years,He is From US,& am from Lebanon middle east, He prays for me everyday,& I pray for him, i feel in his love,we are both sensiive ,spiritual, he is a good friend,and full of passion & love,we have very common things together, He helped me in my problems,good listener,white heart… he loves me for nothing…just for the meaning of love…& me also feel .By the way we are of different religion.
Next year,may be i will meet him,& the strange, i was applying to the same university where he studied his graduate studies,& am so excited to be accepted and study there.
As for my twin brother, we always feel in each other,& we are different in hobbies,we complete each other as one strong unity,when i am sad ,he is more ready to help me,full of power to help me,and the opposite,we think of same ideas many times,we lived 18 years together ,shared same memories and dreams and explored life together…
As for my soulmate of different sex,I found her from the first sight,where i was supposed to know other girl in that time, she gives me so much positive energy when i see her,we are facing alot of problems 2 marry,however,sometimes we feel its enough for us to be in contact,who knows what could happen,things will come with more patience…For all lovers Be Patient :)
I found my guide in my life. He is a magician. A shaman. And I felt in love with him. After reading breda i understood that he is my other half last christmas. I told him and he answered that we love in the other the unlived parts of ourselves (the shadow) and that my struggles with live are close to him too.
As he is married I refused to start a love affair with him. I feared breaking my heart too, to be honest and a didnt want to endanger his health as he had a heart attack.
He also tried to initiate me but I somehow failed becaus of my fears. Nevertheless we sometimes have telepathic communication and are very close soumates.
The stories of brida are so realistic, you can t imagine. Brida explained me what I was experiencing and it appeared in a synchronistic way. The book was a treasure to me.
Now, one year passed he is still advising me in an unbeleaving helpful manner but I am suffering of this unlived love. – Can you imagine, what shall I do ?
Sabine
Dear Sabine…a few thoughts on what you shared…Am sure that all this this must be very hard for you, but I can I only imagine how beautiful what your going through can be as well…You are saying you are suffering from this unlived love…but you have been living your love all this time…how could it be differently…how could you be missing something that is already yours? According to the book,love is liberty…when you love something and set it free, or let it be it will be yours for ever, but if you try to bring it in your own terms to make it yours, you may loose it for ever…the key to manifestation, is letting go…
dear Paulo Coelho
my name is Halya .I live in Russia, i am 14 years old. I with pleasure read your books. Now I read your 6 books, have very much liked me the book “brida”. As you see I not so well I know English language but nevertheless has decided to leave the message at you at a forum…. you are -the unique writer which books it is possible to read not coming off long time… I am very glad that you are….
I purchased BRIDA, while taking my fifteen-year old daughter shopping for summer reading. She required ‘THE ALCHEMIST’, which I had read long ago and passed on. Brida spoke to me on so many levels I am not certain I can give the impact Justice. Born to strict Irish Catholics, I have for as long as I can remember struggled against ‘conforming’. While in Catholic high school, I dabbled in the occult, not the tarot, the Necromicon; I sought a Wiccan teacher… Had I lived in Ireland (and not simply visited); I would have felt you were telling my story. I have a lovely family, though I feel a strong urge for past life regression…Where do I follow this. My teacher has passed. Thank you
Boa Tarde a todos!
Eu tenho uma dúvida meio sem sentido, coisa boba mesmo, mas não me saí da cabeça e queria saber de voces, amigos, o que têm a dizer (isso pra quem prestou atenção no mesmo detalhe)
Quando Brida faz a volta ao passado, enquanto agoniza nos braços de Talbo, ela ouve as Vozes falando sobre “os 4 anéis que uma mulher pode usar”.
As Vozes dizem que são eles: o anél da Virgem, da Mártir, da Santa e o da Bruxa, elas explicam cada um dos 3 primeiros, mas antes que falem do último, do anél da Bruxa, Talbo chega com o padre e o resto voces já sabem.
Agora a dúvida: que história é essa de anél? Porque, como, onde? E o como seria a descrição do anél da Bruxa?
É claro que eu não espero que alguém aqui tenha a resposta na ponta da língua, mas quem sabe alguém me ajuda a descobrir.
Um grande abraço a todos, espero ter vindo ao lugar certo!
I am full of joy that you wrote about soul mates/soul partners. I love the perspective described that soul mate/partners are halves of a previous soul in search on wholeness. I believe that we have soul mates/partners that are equal and opposite sexes. I believe I have found one of soul partners in a very dear friend (same sex). We are able to teach and learn/follow and lead/share and listen. We both feel a mystical connection to each other, and feed off the energy of one another. I have experienced philos in the most intense form I could imagine. In regards to eros, I have loved and lost several times and recovering from a marriage that was full of joy, ecstacy, love, companionship, but also equally full of pain, destruction, chaos and loss of self. I regret not my love, the eros I shared with my wife. I am proud to shepherd 2 physical manifestations of that love.
I am growing and learning from all experiences, and recently picked up a book about the 4 male archetypes (King, Warrior, Magician, Lover) and their shadow forms (immature masculinity). While there are many mature forms of the masculine archetypes I possess, there are also many forms of the bi-polar mature archetypes and immature masculine archetypes I possess. I could begin to grasp or understand how to move from Boy Psychology to Man Psychology without some of your indirect guidance first. I am eternally grateful for my journey and the path in which I am on now.
It seems many men these days are stuck in the Immature Masculine (Boy Psychology) form these days because Western culture has gravitated away from rites of passage or initiantion ceremonies (rituals) from making boys into men. Some might argue that military does that, but they neglect to see that while military might satisfy the Warrior and maybe the King and Magician archetype, it completely destroys the Lover archetype.
Without all 4 archetypes in harmony, Mature Masculine form cannot be achieved. My therapist and guide suggested that I create my own rites of passage for my son and daughter. My therapist even suggested that I explore archery as a rite of passage for the Magician archetype.
всем привет,я очень люблю читать Пауло Коэльо!Книгу “Брида” я закончила не так уж и давно,было интересно читать,но если честно такого конца я не ожидала!!!!Конец очень огорчил!я ожидала,что Брида останется с Магом,но ведь Коэльо всегда нас удивляет!
я думаю это книга,так же как и все в первую очередь про любовь!просто познают её чуть по-другому,свои способы,свои правила!а вообще автор замечательный,книги тоже чудесные,после этих книг не хочется ни одного класика в руки брать
dear Paulo Coelho ,
My mane is Luisa and I read many of your books and I like it much .
I read also BRIDA
I wish to ask you something : WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT GOD ?
You talk about also about God and Universe and different people, and sheper and journeys in your books , but here is the same question
REALLY , DO YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT LORD? do you really understand something? and about magic? and universe ?
ASWER PLEASE
peace
Brida. The story resonates with me so much I could not continue or finish reading it on my initial attempt. For a couple of months I delayed reading it as I kept seeing a lot of me in Brida. A lady seeking her destiny and struggling to find balance between life and her quest for love, for Truth, the
Path and the strong desire to transform self.
My only question is, regarding the teachings about the Traditions of the Sun and Moon. I find it too metaphoric and philosophical.
Hola Paulo!
Brida fue el segundo libro tuyo que lei, despues de recibir como regalo El Alquimista que lleno de tanta fuerza y energia, en una de las tantas ferias del libro que hay en Lima, Peru decidi comprar Brida, ya que la universidad veia que mas de una de las chicas leia Brida, y como estaba indecisa en que otro libro tuyo leer me deje llevar por el comun de la clase y en esta feria compre dos copias de Brida, sin saber de que se trataba pero si sabia para quien seria la otra copia, una persona que conocia de muy poco pero que me atraia tantisimo y sin motivo alguno se lo regale y al parecer lo empezamos a leer en contemporaneo y cuando podiamos discutir del libro entre una de las tantas conversaciones con esta persona especial, descubrimos que eramos el uno para el otro que eramos la otra parte de uno con el otro con solo mirarnos y comunicar con la mirada, por esta bella obra Brida, me hiciste descubrir que mi otra parte estaba cerca de mi pero que tarde o temprano cambiaria pais y arriesgarlo todo por ese amor que nacia me hacia mas fuerte y me hacia luchar para estar con el y hasta el dia de hoy estamos juntos unidos por el amor verdadero y no bastan las palabras porque solo la mirada y el pensamiento nos une. Gracias Paulo una vez mas por Brida y soy mas afortunada aun porque Tu firmaste mi copia y la de mi esposo en Roma en marzo del 2006 GRACIAS y espero poder verte pronto una vez !!!
CADA VEZ QUE COMENTO Y ESCRIBO LO QUE SIENTO EN ESTE BLOG , PARA MI ES MUY EMOCIONANTE , PORQUE ES UNA FORMA DE EXPRESAR TU OPINION , LO QUE TIENES EN CIERTO MODO INTERIORIZADO Y QUE NECESITA SALIR PARA RECIBIR LUZ PARA SEGUIR SOBREVIVIENDO.
EN ESPECIAL BRIDA ES EL LIBRO QUE MAS ME AGRADA , AUNQUE HE LEIDO VARIOS DE TU AUTORIA, CLARO NO TODOS.
BRIDA PARA MI FUE UN LIBRO EMOCIONANTE , LO LEI CUANDO TENIA 17 AÑOS Y EN ESO ESPIRITU ADOLESCENTE E ILUSO ME LLENARON SUS PAGINAS DE INSPIRACION , NOSE SI ESPIRITUALIDAD PERO SI A UNA REFLEXION QUE ME PERMITIO ENTENDER QUE HAY QUE SEGUIR PASE LO QUE PASE Y QUE SOBRE TODO EL AMOR ES LA FUERZA-SENTIMIENTO QUE ALIMENTA EL ALMA Y QUE PERMITE SEGUIR EN LAS ADVERSIDADES, TOMANDO CONTINUAS DECISIONES.ME FASCINO EN ESPECIAL LA ESCENA DESCCRITA EN EL BOSQUE CUANDO ELLA TIENE UNA ESPECIE DE ACERCAMIENTO TIPO SEXUAL CON EL BRUJO QUE RESULTA SIENDO SU “OTRA MITAD”.
BESOS Y QUE SIGAS ESCRIBIENDO Y FASCINANDONOS COMO SIEMPRE.
I read Brida last summer,I have to admit that it was breathtaking..Yes, I agree with a reader’s comment that every line of it is metaphore and has invaluable philosophical meanings..The magician who teaches the trandition of sun, reminded me of a man who I was related with many years ago,from the very first page the look of his eyes came to my memory and overflowed me with reminishes of those years, when I was very young and he was much older than me but yet so pationately attractive..Anyway, years passed (I’m 38 now) and other people came and left from my life, and the “everlasting love” appeared and disappeared for several times, not without leaving marks to me and my soul..What made me to share this with you is the magician’s secret thoughts when he sees that Brida is his other half. His sutten reluctance to deal with her as he already new that sometimes love can break the glass through thousants of pieces..I happen to be in a parallel situation right now, it is the time for me to choose the right path so as to avoid being torn apart from my dark other half..I know that a strange force is testing me, it wants to see how strong I am..Will I be able to resist and move away; I know I will try it with all my strength, I will fight to stay away from an amima nera cause that’s what he is…
Paulo:
es emocionante poder escribirte, eres uno de mis autores favoritos, eres demasiado genial, tus libros siempre me sorprenden y me encanta como logras con cada uno de ellos que podamos viajar a diferentes lugares y muchas veces reconocernos en tus personajes, el primer libro tuyo que lei fue “A orillas del rio piedra, me senté y lloré”, lo lei en 2 dias…
espero seguir leyendo tus libros
saludos
PD: tengo la suerte de haber encontrado el punto luminoso en el hombro izquierdo…
Mr.Paulo thanks you because you show us the easiest way of the reality of our life ! You put all to absorbed in thoughts and when we read your books the flesh of easy way of the life is touch us all…..Your books it help me to find the happiness of the life…..
Don’t ask why ? …only follow the life…your life.
Wicca to Brida on studying magic – “When we set out on a path we always have a fairly clear idea of what hope to find.” …”Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they habve set as their goal.”
This is something that I struggle with in my search for truth. I’ve changed directions on my path a few times in my life or put things “On Hold” because it wasn’t working out the way I wanted it to.
I particularly struggle with this concept because I don’t want to have to learn completely through literature and would love to find a teacher. But up until this point I haven’t found the one that fits my needs. I also get turned off when someone wants my money to “teach” me things – I tend to think that these people aren’t really who they claim to be.
Do any of you struggle with these thoughts? What are your thoughts on these matters?
I too have struggled with such thoughts,there are times i would like a guide in my life, especially when it comes to crossroads in my life. I then think maybe the best guide we can have is ourselves, but it would be nice to have some help with that at times. Sometimes i think i take the long road to a lot of things in my life. Brida went searching and it was a fantastic story of her journey and also love, which is probably what we all search for anyway. I still await my guide in my life.
I have had a similar experience in search for a truth , to me, truth is my goal or some point where I want to see myself one day. I have never changed directions like out of my free will rather have been forced by some mystic power ( I call it GOD ) to accept certain things that came to my way before I’m ready to take the final call. I am still awaiting many things and dreaming many dreams but in real, deep down inside my heart knows that GOD may have a different plan altogether. At times I just stop planning and let myself flow and I feel better thinking that I have a GODFATHER to take care and it’s his will that we all obey at the end of the day not ours ! there have been many teachers who came to my life and passed on and each had something to say ..I still feel that it is our power within / our faith that teaches us the most important lessons in our lives.
Thank you for your thoughts, Chandrima and Therese.
I have been thinking a lot about the parts relating to commitments in this book and I think this is partly what I struggle with. Perhaps the thoughts I put here earlier are really just excuses that I come up with to rationalize why I can’t commit to my path. Maybe I need to follow the “law of life” and face my Dark Night head on?
Hola Paulo. Terminé de leer 11 Minutos. Creas una magia particular con tus narraciones en cada libro, sorprendente. Es que uno no puede evitar introducirse en la historia, es como si uno al igual que el personaje, estuviese ahí, pasando por cada paisaje, viviviéndo al lado de lo acontecido, al leerte, ya nos convertimos en parte de el libro, y eso lo logras, porque sabes tocar la fibra sensible de cada quien, con tu plama, tan sencilla y entendible, y al mismo tiempo tan profunda, que al terminar de leer, con toda seguridad nos queda una sensación que lo vivimos, que tuvimos uan experiencia más, y es por eso que al concluir, por la experiencia vivida, decimos que crecimos, aprendimos contigo. Entonces, que magía tan enorme.
hey paolo…,
i just wrote you this message because i’ve just finished reading brida n i wanted to know weather brida o’fern is alive or not and if she is alive who is she living with…the magus or lorens…
i liked the book but i don’t know but the ending….why did brida go with lorens if she knew that magus was her soulmate…????
i have one more question…i’m 15 and read most of your books and u said that love was not to be possesed and to be set free….but you can’t leave someone knowing that you love him..???reply me pleaseee
thanks
keerths
Le anime gemelle di brida sono sia Lorens che il maestro, lei non sceglie di andare con uno o con l’alto perchè in realtà tutti e tre sono la stessa cosa, la stessa essenza! Anche per noi è così. solo che spesso non ce ne accorgiamo, o preferiamo non farlo!
Hola!!! creo que cada uno de sus libros tiene algo magico, pero en especial Brida, podria verse como una historia de hechiseria pero en realidad es una experiencia que invita a descubrir lo valioso de la vida, que nos hace ver momentos magicos y personas especiales que aveces no los persivimos por estar sumergidos en un mundo convulsionado. Es capaz de hacer reflexionar sobre el verdadero papel del amor y de la mujer……
Hola Pablo la verdad soy una gran admiradora de sus obras creo q todas han llegado a mis manos en momentos en que las tenia que leer porque cada una la he leido en el momento preciso por el ejemplo el alquimista me llego justo cuando iba terminando la carrera universitaria, brida me encanto yo siempre he creido en que de verdad existe esa otra parte y como brida me he encontrado en relaciones donde me cuestiono mucho sin estar en una relacion mala y cuando lei a brida entendi muchas cosas que pasan y uno dice es simple casualidad de la vida pero no todo pasa por algo y como dice el libro a veces conocemos esa otra parte en momentos q no podemos estar juntos pero vale la pena ese solo instante y ojala pudiera seguir conociendo mas cosas para poder saber reconocerlo asi que si me quisiera brindar mas informacion para seguir estudiando y aprender a reconcerlo mejor se lo agardeceria por favor jamas deje esa pluma secar cada libro suyo inspira a muchas personas yo he visto como han cambiado su rumbo los que no sabian q existian las esperanzas …
Are you available to council me at all? Seriously its my 28th birthday today and your book, Brida (a gift from my mother), has blown my mind in the most scary supernatural way, just when i was feeling all alone, it seems im not at all and all this crazy business isnt as isolated as i first thought.
Thank you, you have shared a gift in your writings and the kind embrace is honrable and amazing.
thank you in more ways than one, mostly for sharing your genious mentality but also for making me realise that maybe i havent gone mad i just need to open my mind to another level which maybe makes me special, dare i mention faeries?
which card should i play, nature or nurture?
i better go, there is trouble that needs tempting!
i dont know if you will read this i can imagine your a busy kinda guy but my lights have been switched on and its all got a bit dazzling in here, the gateway is bright, do you have any experience of it?
I read BRIDA for about a month ago.
I was deeply impressed. As in other books, i found so many in common with Brida, so many ideas that i have in my mind but cant express.
As many others we think a lot about our role and meaning in this life. And I agree that we are here to find our solemate and make our dreams come true.
Its so difficult to make a decission, but she DID it. I alaways think that the word ‘right” eg decission is relatively for every person and situation.
I also like the episode the talk between Mum and the daughter. And wish to have a teacher like Brida.
Thank you a lot for such masterpieces.
This is new experience of expressing my opinion about the book, hope will progress in future. Start reading another book – The Pilgrimage
I had an experience in May, months before I read Brida. This experience has shaken my life and changed it completely. I met another man, when I was in holiday with my husband. This other man was able to touch me deeply – a feeling I’ve never known before! I felt so close to him, we were like… magnets. Although we just embraced each other, so much more happened with me – I thought, I couldn’t let him go, as it felt so right.
I finished reading Brida a few days ago and this quote “…at least once in every incarnation, the soulmate who is sure to cross our path. Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days. …” left me weeping with my memories.
I’m going to meet this man again – this is what I truly feel I need to do. I’m going to follow my feelings.
Just finished reading Brida, I like most the part of Mother & daughter’s conversation at the cathedral, conversing about loving two man at the same time in a different level, even Brida’s mother was in the bridge between the visible and the invisible… I liked it most when the mother recalls how she met the other man in her life, feeling the completeness of being the strangers soul mate in a brief encounter and keeps haunting her for as long as she lives.
This is my favorite quote from you.
Ever since the time began
People have recognized their true love
By the light in their eyes…
Howdie!
I spoke with James Bond’s daughter yesterday.Yep!
Anyhoe,after that, I did my expiration and I got a rush of inspiration in (chat’s che chientifik in me!)
Brida, for me, is about the bees and the honey, suckling the mother’s milk.
oops! sorry gotta go the …bell is ringing!
It’s the milkman!
As they say in NZ…. 6 is 7vens.
:0
Si lees el libro enamorado, veraz que tu otra parte existe, la magia del amor te llevara a Cristo y este a la vida eterna……… es verdad, doy fe…..Tu libro Pablo me ayudo a entender el mensaje, creo que tu nos ayudas a entender…..
Eu adoro suas grandes produções.Quando abro me deparo com portais que me transportam para vivências minhas, auto conhecimentos e novos mundos, onde sei que é o verdadeiro local onde repousa a alma de todo artista, no mundo do possível, fantástico, mistico e belo.
Salve a você grande Paulo e a
um outro grande “cara”, Raul Seixas.
Grato Marco Panfili.
obs:Estou escrevendo um livro espero chegar aos pés de suas obras, adoraria conversar com o sr, espero que isso aconteça breve.
Que a grande energia universal nos guie.
well, I felt Brida very close to me, maybe because we had the same experience, I mean being in love with a person much older than me, that I felt very close to my soul (maybe my other part).
I’ve never had the kind of experieces of Brida, but I’m sure that when I’m be ready, I’ll have the right experieces.
They’re waiting for me on my path.
Love.
Christina
Creo que Brida marca una de las causalidades más fuertes en la escritura de Coelho casí siempre hay una mujer envuelta o envolviendo la historia Brida particularmente representa la fuerza natural en las mujeres conectada con la tierra, con la naturaleza misma con el cosmos, las mujeres traemos la semilla de la vida, nuestros vientres resguardan la continuidad de la especie, y por ende somos parte del más grande misterio de la creación, más que un libro de hechizeria es un libro que contiene los principios esenciales de la vida misma… el poder está dentro de cada uno esperando manifestarse cuando le permitamos hacerlo.. la magia existe claro que existe somos magia de un ser súpremo que nos da la libertad de explorarla libremente……..
Querido Pablo, cada vez que alguno de tus libros ha llegado a mis manos, ha sido por alguna razón, me han dejado grandes enseñanzas y me ha llevado a conocerme más a mi misma. De Brida una de las partes que más me marcó, o me llamó la atención fue cuando estuvo sóla en el bosque, esa noche oscura por la que muchos pasamos para encontrar nuestro camino y nos da fuerzas más adelante cuando lo necesitamos. A mi me gusta caminar y estar en contacto con la naturaleza, en una oportunidad me fui de paseo con unos amigos, mi mamá y mi novio para la montaña, pensabamos caminar poco y regresar el mismo día, pero cuando llegamos al sitio sentimos ganas de continuar por un sendero marcado, pero que no conociamos,estabamos en un bosque con àrboles muy altos, de repente conseguimos una encrucijada y la desesperacion de que atardecia nos llevo por el camino equivocado, oscureció y no estabamos preparados para acampar, por lo que regresamos hasta la encucijada(al lado de un río)los árboles y no nos quedó más que pedirle a Dios que nos cuidara,que no lloviera, y que ningún animal nos hiciera daño, ese día recordé la noche oscura y siento que todos la vivimos. Cuando aclaró pudimos ver que sólo nos faltaba 15 minutos para llegar al pueblo. Gracias por tus libros y por compartir tus experiencias.
I would like to say thank you for writing the book Brida, it really taught me something. I really love the book. I like the character Brida because she is like me, finding her gift and looking for answers to all her questions about life and everything that evolves in it. There are so many experiences and things happening in my life that i cannot explain… I see myself in Brida. I enjoyed every moment that I am reading it. I can’t wait to read your next book. Thank you very much for the inspiration.
Hola ..este es el momento mas emocionante de mi vida,el poder escribir algo para ty,que me has dado tanto con tus libros y Brida fue mi primera y mejor experiencia cuando entre en contacto con tus letras, su sentir, su fuerza su amor y esa presencia tan tangible del mago…esa es mi vida relejada en ella .y no podria saber cuantas veces la he leido,y a la vez descubierto cosas nuevas pero lo mas valioso es todo ese aprendizaje que nos dejas a traves de la sencillez misma de las palabras…mi amor y admiracion por siempre
Hi ^^
Actually I have nothing really special to tell you, apart that I sincerely enjoyed every second I read the lines of your books. You make me feel like I learn things I have always known but never thought that much about them.
I also have to recognize that I spend much more time on one of your books than on another one, and that’s nothing but a good thing, because yours are filled by enlightened ideas and metaphores; almost every line is important in the devlopement of the story: so, the result is obviously a full moment of pleasure!
Love and respect for your Gift;
A Finnish-Moroccan admirer :)
PAULO, EL HABER LEIDO BRIDA PARA MI FUE REALMENTE IMPACTANTE, DESDE MI PUNTO DE VISTA ESTA CUESTION DE LA HECHICERIA ES MERO MITO, PERO LA MANERA EN QUE TU LO NARRAS REALMENTE ME ASOMBRA Y ME TRANSPORTA AL MOMENTO, SE QUE TU ERES UN ANGEL SUPER CONSENTIDO POR DIOS YA QUE TE HA DADO EL BELLO DON DE LA ESCRITURA PERO ATRAVES DE ESTE DAS UNA ENSEÑANZA INVALUABLE, LOS CONCEPTOS QUE DESCRIBES DESDE COMO BUSCAR TU CAMINO, INVESTIGA, BUSCA NO CLAUDIQUES, SIEMPRE HABRA ALGUIEN EN TU CAMINO QUE TE PODRA GUIAR, EXPLICAS BELLAMENTE LO QUE DEBE DE SER UNA RELACION SEXUAL, EL AMOR A UNO MISMO TU SER TU CUERPO Y SOBRE TODO LA DESCRIPCION TAN MARAVILLOSA QUE DAS SOBRE UN AMOR VERDADERO (TU OTRA PARTE) QUE NO IMPORTA IGUAL QUE NO SIGAN EL CAMINO JUNTOS PERO QUE TUVISTE LA VALIOSA OPORTUNIDAD DE CONOCERLO Y DISFRUTARLO PARA MI ES ALGO QUE DEBERIA DE SER ASI, INCLUSO EL CONCEPTO QUE DAS SOBRE LA MAGIA (HECHICERIA) Y EL CONCEPTO DE LA RELIGION “TODO LO QUE ESTA HECHO POR AMOR” ES DE DIOS, REALMENTE BELLO, GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESA SABIDURIA QUE TE FUE OTORGADA PARA PODER LLEGAR A MILLONES DE CORAZONES Y PODAMOS REFLEXIONAR EN NUESTRA FORMA DE VIVIR, ERES UN VASO DE AGUA FRESCA EN MEDIO DEL DESIERTO.
Aun recuerdo cuando lei tu primer libro, aun no lo pones abierto a la discusion pero fue Veronica decide morir, meses despues papa me llevo a una feria de libros y volvi a mi casa con todos los libros que estaban en existencia en ese momento.
Cuando lei brida descubri lo complicado que puede ser el amor en un punto, gracias por escribir, realmente tus palabras me han hecho acomodar las cosas que parecen ir de momento alreves en mi vida y eso fue algo que aprendi del mago de brida tambien, por muchos años me escaquille como el, esperando y de momento me canse ahora me doy cuenta que me rendi muy pronto. Gracias por tus palabras, aun cuando no tengo la certeza que leeras las mias, igual, gracias por todo ^^.
i dont know hw i should address you… you have come in my life as a form of communication from GOD. through your books, you have added meaning to my life. I have read many of your books, currently reading BRIDA… i wish i can share with you my life story but love is not meant to be flaunted publically. its something that anyone who feels it, can see in my eyes… Can feel in my laughter.
Es un honor leer tus libros, en especial Brida y La Bruja de Portabello. Tal parece que me conoces, en cada uno de esos personajes me encuentro yo. Tanta gente como Brida busca un mundo al que yo le e estado uyendo toda mi vida. Pasa que siempre es mas facil contarla y leerlo que vivirlo.
En fin, Brida desperto en mi preguntas que no me habia preguntado. Por ejemplo, por que le temo/uyo a lo que me corresponde?
dear paulo
whenever i was in a bad situation you appear and make me calm!
when i was in love you sent Pilar to make me calm…when i was confused and want my love from God you sent Santiago…now i need a woman who loves a married man can you help me?you wrote about men who theire women left them and disappear ,now it’s turn to write about a woman who loves a married man!
Best regards
I’m right here, I’m a woman and I love a married man, Paulo Coelho.
I have no control over loving him, I’m so attracted to him and it’s such a strong force for me that it’s out of my hands, I guess that’s what love is right? Yet because he is married, it makes it difficult for me sometimes. I mean, when we love someone, we want to be near them and close to them, and from the point of view of him being married, this creates a clash because of many reasons and considerations.
I think the same issues exist either for a man or woman, mostly because of accepted popular norms. But how does one stop love? I don’t think it’s possible. Love is the greatest force mankind has known. The most popular stories have been love stories, Romeo and Juliet for example, their love was unstoppable!
This might be needless to say but I hope I have not made you feel uncomfortable Paulo.
Namaste,
I am still processing this book to put my reactions into words, but I wanted to thank you for this work. It touched my soul. I listened to it read three times after I read it. It’s power and resonance really woke me up, so to speak. You’re gift for simplicity is enviable, to say the least.
QUERIDO PABLO TAMBIEN TENGO LOS LOBULOS DE BRIDA Y ME EMOCIONO SABERLO ,SIEMPRE ME FIJO EN LOS LOBULOS DE LAS PERSONAS PUESTO QUE NO SON COMUNES LAS QUE LOS TIENEN COMO YO , ME GUSTARIA SABER MAS DE LA TRADICION DE LA LUNA .
ME GUSTAN MUCHO TUS OBRAS LAS QUE MAS ADMIRO SON EL GUERRERO DE LUZ Y TRATO DE SERLO DIA A DIA UN GUERRERO DE LUZ EN LA VIDA , QUE DIFICIL , SOBRE TODO EN TIEMPOS DE PANDEMIAS, EPIDEMIAS, CRISIS, MALAS POLITICAS Y GENTE EGOISTA QUE SOLO BUSCA LLEVAR AGUA A SU MOLINO SIN IMPORTAR COMO NI CUALES SEAN LAS CONSECUENCIAS SOBRE EL OTRO ,SOBRE EL PROJIMO .
GRACIAS POR SER LOQUE SOS UN GUERRERO DE LUZ CON MAYUSCULAS QUE AYUDA A MUCHOS A SEGUIR EL BUEN COMBATE ,TE FELICITO TU DON DE TRANSMITIR Y ENSEÑAR ES ESPECTACULAR HACE VIAJAR CON EL CORAZON EN LA MANO Y LOS OJOS LLENOS DE LAGRIMAS DE EMOCION ,GRACIAS Y ESPERO SEGUIR LEYENDO MAS DE TU OBRA QUE ES TAN IMPORTANTE QUE LINDO DEBE SER SABER QUE DEJAS TU HUELLA, Y QUE HUELLA PARA LA HUMANIDAD, PARA LA HISTORIA Y QUE ESTAS PRESENTE Y PARA SIEMPRE SIEMPRE DE LA MANO DE DIOS . UN FUERTE ABRAZO Y ESPERO SEGUIR COMPARTIENDO
DE NUEVO GRACIAS
DESDE EL NORTE DE ARGENTINA
Dulce sonrisa apareció en mi rostro al contemplar que tengo los lóbulos de las orejas enganchados a la cara, pues bien, ahora sé que soy hechicera, que tengo un don aunque desconozco cuál.
Es la tradición de la luna la que me llama ya que ésta acompaña a las estrellas y en ellas se esconden mis seres queridos día y noche. Tengo ganas de sentir de nuevo el trance alrededor de la hoguera, pero siendo esta vez yo la que está siendo Iniciada y sin la menor duda que suceda en equinoccio de primavera.
Buscaré mi Otra Parte, sin perder la fe en encontrar aquél brillo especial en los ojos, o ese punto que brilla en el hombro izquierdo. Mis fuerzas no cesarán, pues la ilusión por ser Brida siempre ganará.
Dejo mis humildes palabras con la esperanza de ser leídas por quien considero un gran Maestre. Gracias Paulo por tus obras.
Maybe your seeing the book as it fits you. Given that your traveling alone, your mind wonders into different territories as your subconsious takes over from that things that you have been thinking about in the course of reading this book. I also read the book and found that I can related to the metaphors that were given with the life of brida in relation to wisdom, knowledge and love. Anyways, may it be a magical, spiritual or psychological calling, your dreams will reveal a lot about who you are and how you are living your life. its up to you and your personal beliefs as how to pursue it. i believe the rituals only take part of you once you make it a real part of who you are… and these rituals have long been part of tradition and history so i guess we have no right in medling with such forces with out the proper guidance and supervision.
eitherways, your life is yours to make and only yours to pursue…
I am reading Brida right now (almost done), and I think it`s an amazing book which came into my life last week, as I was facing one of my biggest fears: travelling completely alone. But it has also left me a bit anxious because of what you said in the very beginning of the book, that the rituals should NOT be carried out without guidance.
I tell you this because many strange things have happened as of the moment I arrived at the airport and bought this novel, both in the physical world and in my dreams. I feel as if my soul has opened up and most of the experiences have been very interesting and exciting.
Yesterday though, I had a dream that has been haunting me all day: I was flying and felt as if I was drawn back in time(?) and that I would die if I couldn`t get “back”. It was a real struggle, but I finally “made it” and woke up completely exhausted… I am frightened that my subconscience might be moving towards territories that I should not pursue on my own. I have not done any of the rituals.
I am also wondering if any of you other readers out there have had similar experiences while reading this book? (signs, true dreams etc.) I would deeply appreciate the feedback.
I first read The Alchemist, and next I found Brida through my friend, she told me it wasn’t good, but somehow I just wanted to read it.Its it is an awesome book by the way, may be my friend didn’t understand it, but well I think I did…And as I kept on reading it, I realized how much I needed that book at this time of my life.Faith is the word, seriously, your book just enlightened me, made me think again when I’d just simply almost given up on it.I was trying to rationalize every spiritual aspect of it, and I will still continue to do so, but my understanding of the world will be different, and no more I will I feel so alone and lost in my journey, my journey through the Dark Night:)
I have so much to tell, but well, for now I think this is enough, I love you.God bless you.Take care.And, God bless everyone actually, lol.
Yes, I finished reading Brida about 4 days ago. I have always been interested in Wicca anyway and I do simple things like using crystals, cleansing them, and generally keeping myself as close to nature as modern day existence will allow.
I was so enthralled with this book and especially the part where she and the Magus take the journey within the circle.
I went to bed after finishing the book and I had an astral travel experience. It was truly amazing. My sister had told me about these. She is a spiritual healer and has experienced them. Whilst I never doubted her experiences, there is always a little part of you that needs to experience something for yourself before finally realising that it is true / possible.
My question is, did this happen as a result of me reading the book or is it something that I manifested myself. I went to bed that evening with the specific wish to visit the Middle East. I visualised it and it happened – silver thread and all.
I was profoundly affected by this and have described it in more details under the ‘Soulmates’ thread.
Boa tarde a todos.
Bom eu também notei algumas mudanças ao começar a ler o livro e isso já faz um tempo, tem uns 3 anos que li. Agora é como se senti-se um chamado pra ler novamente e é o que irei fazer. Acho que esse desejos internos e inexplicáveis que temos devem ser sgeuidos sem medo, pois é neles que reside a chave para a nossa passagem, evolução… seija como queiram. Quando li o livro tudo ficou mais claro e confuso ao memso tempo, também passei a ter sonhos reveladores, em um deles encontrei um livro que trazia pasagens sobre mim, mas era em outros tempos, Começaram a surgir muitos símbolos e também nomes bem diferentes dos atuais, eram coisas que eu não conhecia ainda, ou então não sabia que conhecia. Passei a obeservar melhor as pequenas coisas, a viver cada momento, era como se a neblina estivesse se dissipando, era tudo meio música e muito leve, mas também dava medo, principalmente por não ter ninguém para conversar sobre o que se passava. Porém, não segui o caminho e acho que estaguinei, se agente não exercita acaba por perder o dom… é por isso que estou sentindo novamente o chamado e agora vou seguí-lo de vez. Abraços a todos!!!
querida fabiana, una es capaz de leer las señales e interpretar los signos, cuando está preparada. Los sueños manifiestan nuestra realidad, pero mezclan en ella nuestro potencial incosciente y entonces es cuando se vuelven magicos. No temas los sueños de muerte, pues para que nazca una nueva vida dentro nuestro alguna parte, que ya se nos quedó obsoleta debe morir. yo en Brida, descubri que el amor verdadero, puede durar un dia, pero que para vivirlo, tienes que estar dispuesta a arriesgar, pues nada perderás, es más te encontrarás a ti misma en él.
Gracias Paolo por tus libros.
saludines
I think Brida is one of the most powerful stories I have ever read. It brought me to tears on a number of occasions and shook me to my very core. I don’t think I have ever been moved so much by a story…
The subject of soulmates is what first drew me to this book. Like so many other people I too am searching for my soulmate. What really shocked me was that I had someone who I am very close to and had always thought that they appeared to have a special light, especially from their eyes, unlike anything i had ever seen in anyone else. Then I read Brida… and got scared, really scared. Things are progressing with this person slowly, (extremely slowly) as we acknowlege our feelings but are both afraid…Only time will tell if he is meant to be my Lorens, or my Magus…or something else entirely.
But Paulo, thank you, for if I had never read this book I may never have understood that special light.
Dear paulo coelho,
I read brida yesterday . It took me to another world and I felt as if every word is being spoken to me.
For last few months I was tryin to understand friendship with a particular friend of mine who lives farway . Brida came at the right time for me and put everything in the focus.
Thank you for guiding me!!
brida is close to my heart.
i was bowled over by the soulmate concept and the way it is lit up in brida.
but, but, but … i want brida to go with magus
may be in some reincarnation brida will … soulmates unit at right time probably …
:-)
some time in life we ask the question ” why am i alive? ” then we give all our time to find the answer instead of continuing living and accepting that there are things beyond our comprehension. the answer that we are looking for are not meant to be found but to be felt…words are not enough to explain this but for the time being we can say that we do not know.
i will not be certain of what awaits me in my next lifetime but i feel it will be better.
a book tht will give meaning to ur lyf..a gurl who aspires for nothing actually turns out to be learning wht she had craving for.. but was it really she wanted to learn tht way or she wanted everything ready in her plate but does she hav any other choice or she has to learn by practicing..den she realizes in her own fiddlings tht she has two soulmates and she has to choose one but one has given her valuable tym and another her share of world of magic..she ultimately chooses the preacher but the other wins without being chosen as he nvr had her and hence he lost nothin..a lov maybe pinching but gives immense bliss..its a bond woven in silken threads..soft but includes a lot of strength..so flow into it and forget till u reach ultima..
Brida eu li 3 vezes, me mostrou o quanto ser mulher é maravilhoso e sofredor ao mesmo tempo, este livro desabrochou em mim toda a beleza de ser uma Bruxa… e achei que todo o medo tem poder, tanto que voltou a ser colocado em prova na Bruxa de Portobelo, quando ela vence seus medos na escuridão… fantástico…
I have been thinking a lot about your question…I have no one answer. I understand that it is said you can never lose what you do not have, so the Magnus will never lose Brida as he never had her, do we ever have anyone ? I also know from experience that after someone has gone be it through choice or death you can still hold that person in your heart and they are indeed very real. However if I am honest my preferred answer is as follows:
the Magnus was Brida’s twin flame. They have been joined since the beginning of time and will be for ever after. I think this may account for the different qualities associated with their lovemaking in comparison to Brida and Lorens’ lovemaking. Twin flames sometimes get brief glimpses of each other before it is time for them to come together, both must be ready because this union is not predominantly a romantic relationship supporting the development of two people, more an already perfected union that informs the world/all. Lorens is the key. He is not my favorite character in this book, my heart draws me to the Magnus. Yet there must be unfinished business between Brida and Lorens, something that will equipt her better for her relationship with the Magnus in the future and something Lorens needs too. Life is perfect.
I imagine a clue is in the way Lorens is depicted, he is not a spiritual seeker as such, but a scientist. Yet he has a good heart. By staying with Brida his heart will develop and he may become a scientist who thinks with his heart/brain. Like Einstein let’s say, this is what the world needs, as love is not only the energy of romance but also technology and all things. From what I can remember in Brida’s past life memory, she was not as spiritually sophisticated as Lorens, he was a Cathar and a keeper of truth ? I’m not sure, but she opened his heart and made him want to be the best that he can be. She can do this again and learn that spirituality is not about sophistication or formalities, it is about love, love of life, love of other and good intentions. I wonder how else Brida may benefit from this partnership ? When the time is right the Magnus and she will be together again. He has her always as they are one.
This is just from my favored interpretation, it makes me feel happy, I notice how we(in this workshop and other discussions in this blog) have different focuses and interpretations of this book, and I guess these tell us more about ourselves than the book’s actual meaning. Maybe that is why the author does not intervene too often with the “right” answer. I don’t know.
the magus had no choice but to accept his own destiny or maybe the consequences of his own choices as he had to pay for his prior mistakes, brida followed her heart which belonged to the man she was in love with, and the magus, being older and wiser in life’s law knew it would be like that.
both men were equally linked to her, they were both her soulmates
the magus is after all a human being, whether he is a magi or a witch, the point is that he combined feelings of both worlds and was able to demonstrate and show them to the only one after wicca, who was Brida, the Magus is aware that brida is not for him anymore,but the feelings he felt keep lingering in him because they have been extraordinary, therefore, even if he lets her go, he still has her, emotions and feelings alive!
I had so many questions after I read this book. I devoured it in 2 days, very unlike me. Thank you Paulo you are a beautiful man, I love all of your books, but Brida came just at a time I had to consider I may have 2 soulmates in my life at once. The answer I got was not the answer I expected.
I believe Brida stayed with Lorens because of her past life memory of the Cathars, she wanted so badly to re-live it. I believe Lorens is her partner from that time as he shows a fear of fire at the witches gathering and he loves her in the same way. Brida was warned by Wicca not to delve into that story. It is all energy, we get what we ask for ?
I want to understand why Magnus saw a light over Lorens’s left shoulder at the gathering, he at first thought it was Brida. Paulo please tell me 8-), I wonder if they were from the same soul family. Then there is the question of twin flames, some believe our soul mates get us ready for our twin flame relationship.
Like Rachel(posted above) my lesson from this book is one of non-attachment and unconditional love. The man whose eyes shine for me may be lost to me, the feelings he has given me never will, everytime he leaves me I let him go with love – it is a beautiful feeling. Quite unexpected ! then at night he comes to me, as if we are allowed to exist in another dimension together, he is always available to me. I have never had this before.
I am going to read Brida again, I am inspired by the posts I have read on this blog. Thank you.
Este livro, assim como os demais, é muito bom! Emprestei para minha namorada e ela também está adorando.
Esta mistura de magia, amor, paixão e alma gêmea é envolvente.
Dear Paulo, thank you for this unusual book. I have read it before some days up to a solar eclipse. I think this is a signe:))) But seriously, this book has given not only a lot of new information for me and 2 my friends, but it became a confirmation of my way, in one of the moments of my doubts. So, thank you again for your book, cause this is real pleasure to read it.
Brida es un libro excelente, lleno de misterio, amor, soledad, sabiduría y tantas otras cosas maravillosas que con el paso de los años uno podrá comprender.
El mago deja ir a Brida sabiendo que siempre la recordará y de igualmente la amará, sabe que solo así su soledad va a desaparecer y tendrá un motivo más para sentirse orgulloso y felíz.
Felicidades éste es por mucho uno de los mejores libros que he tenido el privilegio de leer del gran PAULO COELHO!!!
I am a vivid reader of your novels. But I was disappointed becuase there were still novels which I can’t find where to buy them. In fact, novels always sold out here in my country. I was in university when I started collecting your novels one by one. Your stories actually inspired me to continue reading and now reading became my hobby.
Dear Paulo,
I cannot say which of your books is my favourite, I don’t think it’s a good idea to compare them, but as far as Brida is concerned, I can say that it is SPECIAL to me, it is very MINE.
I first read it in Spanish a few years ago, when it still wasn’t translated into my native Russian. When reading, I got immediately attracted to and deeply interested in a few points:
1) the “trick” that Wicca applied to awaken Brida’s awareness when she was trying to read the Tarot cards. I noticed that there is really something special going on with our attention when we are involved in a long, dull phone conversation which we are unable to break. I knew it subconsciously and always kept a note-pad and a pencil in my proximity. After reading Brida, I understood why;
2) the issue with the clothes, that it should always be worn. But more than that, I liked the way you described the three reasons why we go out to buy ourselves a new item of clothing (which I extend to anything we buy for ourselves at all);
3) that all people can be divided into two groups: the builders and the gardeners. When I read it, I immediately felt myself belonging to the gardeners. Later, I discussed the issue with my friend and she said that she thought there were two more groups at least: those who watch both the builders and the gardeners and estimate them and judge them and consider them both to be fools, but doing nothing themselves. And those who watch both the builders and the gardeners and learn from them to implement the experience of both into their lives thus becoming a fourth and very special category;
4) opening up and using all your senses while making love;
5) and the light over your soulmate’s shoulder, of course.
This spring, when I was re-reading Brida in Russian, I was truly fascinated by the mother’s story – about being in love with two men at the same time. It is so beautiful!
And I paid attention to the exercise that Brida did with the shopwindow. And then, when she was sitting at her favourite place in town and watching the children frolicking around her, she thought that all of them liked reading fairy-tales about witches, but neither of them could imagine that a real one was sitting close them right that moment. I keep thinking how many witches/magus/angels I come across on a daily basis without even realizing it. Amazing!
I want you to know that I have read this book, Brida, about 4 times. It’s amazing! When ever I miss myself and even miss Paulo I read it, and now I’m doing it now for the 5th time! It will be never boring and when ever I read it, I learn many new points.
I read the book….Simply Smazing Sir…and i have to agree with u Samila…..even after reading it a 100 times or even more, i will never be bored by it….its truely awesome!
I am currently reading Brida. I started on my journey a few years ago, learning the rituals and rites of a past I am quite sure I have lived before…and reading this book has reaffirmed my belief in this path, but I very much struggle like Brida…feeling like ‘what if I get this wrong’. But, this struggle, is part of the waking up of the voice within… something I very much desire. I am working the tarot exercise now. So far, the same card has come up and it comes with a familiar sense – a notion – a feeling of having been here before.
I absolutely love Brida, this book had such a profound effect on me, from really understanding what love means to learning to embrace those feelings and intuitions that are part of my life . I read this book 2 months ago, about 8 days after I had completed a 10-day silent meditation course which opened my eyes to so many things and was my ‘road to Rome’.
Intuitive feelings have always been apart of my life since a young age and although I accepted them I have, from time to time, tried to find a rational explanation for them. The meditation helped me to totally accept them and to embrace them, and now I feel completely in touch with my soul and the journeys that it has been on throughout the centuries. When I picked up Brida it was as if it was meant for me and was so in tune with what is happening in my life at the moment. It has also encouraged me to look, in more detail, at Wicca as this is something that really speaks to me.
Months before a friend of mine had emailed me the description of the Anima Mundi, as I had met a man I believe is my Soul Mate, it was beautiful and I thought that I understood it, but it wasn’t until I had undertaken the meditation and read Brida for myself that it made complete sense to me. When I met this man I was so caught up in what I thought love was and how I wanted him to fulfill my ideas of that and my needs that I wasn’t really listening to what he was telling me and what he was teaching me. I still have the messages that he sent me and now when I read them I see what a kind and gentle and wise soul he is. He is my Magus, he came into my life for a reason and at the right time and has been a part of this wonderful transformation that has taken place in my life.
I truly believe that this man is my soul mate, because he has taught me to really understand what universal love is. He is living in another country with another woman and I don’t know if I will ever see him again, but he is happy and is with someone who loves him and that makes me happy.
We were in each others lives for a short period of time and although we may not be together again physically I really believe our souls will forever be entwined because they are one and the same.
“-Las personas dan flores de regalo porque en las flores está el verdadero sentido del Amor. Quien intente poseer una flor, verá marchitarse su belleza. Pero quien se limite a mirar una flor en un campo, permanecerá para siempre con ella. Porque ella combina con la tarde, con la puesta de sol, con el olor de tierra mojada y con las nubes en el horizonte.
Brida miraba la flor. El Mago volvió a tomarla y la devolvió al bosque.Los ojos de Brida se llenaron de lágrimas. Estaba orgullosa de su Otra Parte.
-El bosque me enseñó esto: que tú nunca serás mía y por eso te tendré para siempre. Tú fuiste la esperanza de mis días de soledad, la angustia de mis momentos de duda, la certeza de mis instantes de fe.
Paulo’s best book…? It’s a difficult question. I first read Alchemist (and thought the best book ever I’ve read)..Then read Brida (thought it okay)…Then I read Valkyries (started to talk more with myself, after this book)…Just 1 month before I’ve finished reading Zahir (this was great).
For me each book was a journey? No rather I will say a lesson.
Alchemist thought me to go after my dreams. It thought me that dreams should not be kept side because of loved ones in your life. Also Santiago’s life at the crystal shop thought me that “NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW, IF YOU ARE READY TO GIVE YOUR BEST…LIFE HAS A GREAT POSSIBILITY”
Brida – Maybe I was not at ready for this book. For years people recognized soul mate by the light in their eyes (Oh…How PEOPLE LIKE ME FORGOT THIS LESSON?)
Valkyries, It should be studied by everyone
Zahir – The book was good, especially the art of conversation.
I have to be honest! Brida is the best book i have ever read ! i am reding it right now i began ro read it in the morning at 12 o’clock and it’s 6.20 in my country now and i am finishing the book… i can’t take my eyes of this book, it so interesting full with interesting ideas abou the soulmate, love and sex… i looked on many things in different way and i am writing the interesting quotes out, because i know i will need it in fuure. adore Paulo Coelho and his books.
lo mas bonito de Brida para mí, fue descubrir que existia alguien que podia plasmar con palabras esa “Brida” que llevo dentro, mas aún me encanto la manera en que el escritor describe los sentimientos del Mago y Brida fue una comunión..
Bridas… mi libro favorito. Lo lei hace mucho tiempo, apenas se publico y desde entonces, siempre esta cerca de mi mesa de noche. Excelente, le agradezco inmensamente tantas ensenanzas.
Eu Amei esse livro.
Diversas coisas, que vc. escreveu no livro existe realmente.
Gostaria de saber, se vc. viu algumas das coisas / experiências que vc. conta na história do livro.
Num dos meus sonhos, eu já vi duas vezes essa luz que vem do meio da nuca , quando encontro com um homem que não vejo o rosto. Quando ele me dá as mãos e entrelaçam-se as minhas, eu vejo no meio do nosso corpo, uma taça que brilha forte, muito forte. Quando começamos a andar, de mãos dadas,como que indo embora, as nossas costas tem um fogo, um brilho que sai da nuca de cada um.
É aquela história,… a gente não pode ficar falando essas coisas pra muita gente, porque pode ter várias interpretações.
Mas, para mim desde que sonhei nunca mais pude esquecer.
Quando Li Brida, vi que tinha muita coisa a ver com o meu sonho.
Eu só escrevi isso aqui, nesse momento, porque é o workshop do livro e assim como eu, alguém pode já ter visto ou passado por experiência semelhante; antes ou depois que leu o livro. E eu gostaria de saber. As vezes a gente tem certas experiências e fica se perguntando sózinha, o que seria “aquilo”.?
Mas,…também lembrei-me do sonho que tive na semana passada sobre a passagem da bíblia da carta de Paulo a Timóteo ou seja se a gente tem FÉ, e AMOR temos Deus no coração e o coração é a vida, mesmo que existam pessoas que duvidem.
Beijos,
Mari.
For the last many years I read Paulo’s books. Though I have not yet red “Winner stands Alone”. As you know I have my own difficulties as a person from a traditional catholic family to accept the concept of re-birth. At the same time my Hindu Friends always talk about it. I never get in an argument with them over this. However, Brida, helped me to look at this from another view-point. “Matter can neither be created nor be destroyed”. Then, whatever we see around us are different combinations or different expressions of the same reality.
One more thing: Does Paulo make use of the description in Bible, Christ’s Transfiguration, at Mount Tabore, where the chosen desciples, Peter, John and Jacob, also experience entering a trance?
For the last many years I read Paulo’s books. Though I have not yet red Winner stands Alone. As you know I have my own difficulties as a person from a traditional catholic family to accept the concept of re-birth. At the same time my Hindu Friends always talk about it. I never get in an argument with them over this. Howbêver, Brida, helped me to look at this from another view-point. “Matter can neither be created nor be destroyed”. Then whatever we see around us are different combinations or different expressions of the same reality.
One more thing: Does Paulo makes use of the description in Bible Christ’s Transfiguration, at Mount Tabore, where the chosen desciples, Peter, John and Jacob, also experience entering a trance?
Brida is my favourite of all your books, simply because I deeply identify with her hunger for knowlege. The first line of the story is ‘I want to learn about magic’- Brida was speaking to the Magus. It was as if i was hearing my own voice, but in a place where there was someone to hear. Where i live such people are few and far between.
I felt that this book came into my life when it did for a reason. And i am still looking forward to my own ‘road to rome’
When i met my soul mate, I was part of an audience and he was speaking in a presentation. I was not particularlly attracted by his phisical apperance, but the world stood still and his words sounded so clear and meaningfull. While he was talking i saw my future children in his face. At the end of the presentation my friends invited me to talk with him. I was so atonished by the experience that I refused to talk with him and went home.
Next morning I woke up with my room full with butterflies and all kind of insects on my bed.
After three days of burning Inside and outside could not
belived that the cause of my state was this casual encounter. I went out to a class and the place was locked.
As I walked home my soul mate stood infront of me, all smiling at me, seeing me for first time without knowing
that I saw him first. We stayed toghether 12 wonderfull years before he die. The last thing that stayed with me, was that special shine in his eyes.
Me encantó el libro!!! lo lei 2 veces, la primera fue superficial… en la 2da vez casi dos años despues me fascino!! porque?? me habia enamorado y viví una historia muy similar. Un pequeño detalle hizo la diferencia. Ese libro es nuestra historia, nuestro secreto de amor, de ese hombre, de mi mago (como yo le digo) y yo =) Nos reconocimos y estoy segura que el esmi Otra Parte, es como la sensacion de ver la luz en el hombro yo si creo que se la e visto a el. es un libro lindisimo y sobretodo entendible y aun mas magico si estamos enamorados. Gracias Paulo!! grandeeeeeee… Visita El Salvador por favor!! =)
disculpa que me meta en tu comentario, dices que viviste una historia similar, al final de tu historia te quedaste al lado del mago o de lorens? disculpa que te pregunte pero es que yo tambien vivi una historia similar, pero como en esta novela me paso como al mago que apesar de su amor por brida, fue consiente, realista y renuncio a estar al lado de ella, por su propia felicidad, vivi lo que vivio ese mago y te puedo decir que no es facil renunciar a un amor, es como una mala jugada del distino cuando en alguna reencarnacion se cruzan mas de una otra parte, hay una parte del libro donde brida le pregunta a wicca:
-¿Podemos encontrar más de una Otra Parte en cada vida?
“Sí -pensó Wicca con cierta amargura-. Y cuando esto sucede, el corazón
queda dividido y el resultado es dolor y sufrimiento. Sí, podemos encontrar
tres o cuatro Otras Partes, porque somos muchos y estamos muy
dispersos.”
yo tube o tengo, mi propia Brida en mi vida, y supongo que la fuerza del amor que siento por ella fue la que me dio el valor para dejarla libre y asi con mi sacrificio evitar el sufrimiento de ella porque su corazon estaba dividido. le doy gracias a Coelho por haber escrito este libro y le doy gracias a dios por haberlo colocado en mi camino 2 años antes de estos echos que estoy relatando brevemente, ya que gracias a este libro y atros como a orillas del rio piedra me sente y llore y la quinta montaña tube la madures para comprender muchas cosas de la vida y del amor.
y cito un estracto de la novela Brida:
“-Las personas dan flores de regalo porque en las flores está el verdadero
sentido del Amor. Quien intente poseer una flor, verá marchitarse su belleza. Pero quien se limite a mirar una flor en un campo, permanecerá para siempre
con ella. Porque ella combina con la tarde, con la puesta de sol, con el olor
de tierra mojada y con las nubes en el horizonte.
Brida miraba la flor. El Mago volvió a tomarla y la devolvió al bosque.
Los ojos de Brida se llenaron de lágrimas. Estaba orgullosa de su Otra Parte.
-El bosque me enseñó esto: que tú nunca serás mía y por eso te tendré para
siempre. Tú fuiste la esperanza de mis días de soledad, la angustia de mis
momentos de duda, la certeza de mis instantes de fe.
“Porque sabía que mi Otra Parte iba a llegar un día, me dediqué a aprender
la Tradición del Sol. Sólo por tener la certeza de tu existencia, es por lo que
continué existiendo.”
Perdona que me meta en tu comentario, hermoso por demas. Se feliz y siente esa alegria desde adentro, porque aprendistes a sentir el amor… y eso es un privilegio, aunque duela deja una sensacion de felicidad porque amar es recordar que vivimos.
Är i slutet av boken och anar att Mästaren kommer att se Brida
gå vidare med Lorens. Varför vill jag inte det?!
Jag värjer mig så att jag har svårt att läsa de sista sidorna.
Hjälp!
kanskje du vill ikke gaa videre i ditt liv med “din lorens”…
jeg forstaa at de var vanskelig og lese den siste sidene hvis du ikke vill ha denne slutten
In my opinion “Brida” was the first book without a real happy end. I love you for your belief in love, Mr. Coelho, but I think it is much more realistic, that the magus and Brida were seperated at the end of the book. Perhaps it is my personal story. I don’t know today, but there was a time, I did. Sometimes I think, I wasn’t reday for my twin flame, because when the room of love is so big, so endlessly, that you loose yourself in it, it is better to leave and let go.
I read this at a turning point in my life . I wasn’t sure about the soulmate thing as I feel we have many soulmates but I loved the story. One of our spiritual lessons is to unconditionally love and the magus let her go because he realised that and what their purpose was together. Call it sychronicity or suggestion but less than a week after that I saw the special light in anothers eyes and could see it in my own when I looked in the mirror. I have had to let go of the connection because he isn’t ready for it and so again practice detachment and unconditional love. This is what brida and life teaches us .
Brida:
Well….this book hit me like a tidal wave….so much so, it took me a great amount of time to read it….each page was both fascinating, touching and intriguing….but all with a slightly unsettling feeling that I’m sure was not intended. The hairs stood up on the back of my neck, at times.
I am a girl, who lives in Dublin, Ireland and often frequents the forests and hilltops for miles around and has, what society would call, an ‘alternative’ relationship with spirituality/’religion’….
it was like reading a childhood diary of mine.
Get out of my head, Paulo!!
;o)
On second thoughts…no…stay! Would you like a coffee while you’re here? Hehehehehe….
Seriously, I think the ideas of ’soul mates’ and the ‘nature of love’ in this book are very powerful and interesting.
Love is selfless. The Magus let Brida ‘go’ because in fact there is no ‘letting go’. They were soul mates….cut from the same cloth…part of the same energy…whether they spent each day together or not, was irrelevant because that kind of love requires no ‘possession’. I think that this is kind of what Francesa refered to here earlier aswell.
Maybe this is the difference between ‘love’ and ‘need’?
I absolutely agree with you Fi! I was in almost completely the same story, and did the same thing Magus did – sent her uncover the hidden mysteries and beauty of our World by herself when I felt she is strong enough, because “there is no ‘letting go’”, we “were cut from the same cloth…part of the same energy…whether spent each day together or not, was irrelevant because that kind of love requires no ‘possession’”.
What I also learned in the years to come, is, that there are so MANY soulmates in this world, to spend the whole life with each of them. It is not the matter of falling in love with each pair of eyes that knock us down, it is the matter of recognizing them, and share the whole of your being with them, whether they are with us or not.
Being possessive is the only thing to prevent us from being the whole again; being open means that we eventually find ourselves being the part of the whole net of soulmates, we met here and there, with the constant flow of energy, even if we never meet some of them any more…
Brida is for me one of the most important books that you have written. I identify myself with Brida because although, the story is about that twin flame, her path in order to reach for and to find out that twin flame take her to a more important task in live, she has to understand herself, she has to see herself face to face, to be able to made a decision… And I think that we all have gone through that path… we all have that moment in live in which we have to sit down and talk to ourselves thinking on us only…
I believe that we all have soulmates, but only one twin flame, and in some of our “lifetimes” we are very lucky and found our twin flame, and the circumstances are perfect… some others, we choose a soul mate, or even another person who will walk with us in a particular lifetime, in order for us to grow spiritually… then like Magus said, in another lifetime both twin flames are ready to be with one another…
Love this book… Brida is a path that many of us walk, without even knowing it…
Brida! The book that changed my life! Brida is a magical book… At least it is for me… Brida arrived in my life just on time…. It was the year of 2001, I was going through major life changes in all aspects of my life, it was a turning point for me. Among all my many changes the most difficult to embrace was to accept my own intuition that came in images or clear instructions. I graduated as a clinical psychologist, so I was ready to ask for medical help. But just the weekend that I had decided to go for medical help, a friend of mine gave me Brida. I read the book in one night, as desperate as I was to find some light to my madness. The following week I received my first tarot deck, an Angel Tarot Deck, so I started playing with the cards and connecting to the wisdom and love of my Guardian Angels who I had not talked to in many years…. then, I found the flowers, the herbs, the goddesses, the silence…. In the past 10 years, this journey into my soul has made everyday wonderful…. Not matter what I experience, I love living my life from my own center…. I would have never found the courage to listen to my voices if it was not for Brida. So, I have to say today: Thank you Paulo Coelho for this beautiful book that saved my soul, and my life. Today, my life is very different from what it was 10 years ago…. I do different things, mostly I follow my dreams and my bliss… because I am a woman that embrace the magic within me. I would have never started this path if it was not because Brida arrived in my life right on time, the moment of the darkest night of my soul….
I loved the end of Brida when the Magus allows her to go. That part brought tears to my eyes. He may have lost his soul mate to another man but he found what real love is and in that gained beyond measure. In real love there is no loss and it stays no matter what
That was beautiful and heart-touching, Mr. Coelho! Thank you!
Well…I love every thing that Paulo Coelho writes and Brida is among one of my favourites…It’s just incredible the layout of the entire story…it’s about love beyond the wrath of possessions which tends to spoil it all…beautifully written book about the most wonderful story ever told…
I love the book…
I don’t know if I understand the concept of “soulemate” fully. But I love the story and the fact that the Magus loves Brida, first without her knowing it, and after she also recognised him and he could show his love, he still loves her, and he loves her enough to let her be an other man’s partner. He could have decided to become bitter or to feel hate but he just goes on loving her. That, to me, is love. And although that she is with Lorens I don’t feel that the Magus has lost her. I also love the relationship Brida has with Lorens. He is worth her, because he stays who he is and doesn’t try to become like Brida. There is a lot a breathing space in this relationship.
I was wondering if the Magus is a real man of flesh and blood, (of course he is in the story) but if his role in Brida life could also be that of a spiritguide or spiritsoulmate?
Alexandra – I agree!!! the magus let her go…
how is this possible?!?!
it was the only thing that concerned me about the story – but i guess there was some higher purpose… perhaps in day to day reality they could not be compatible… they had different things to achieve and alone…
I absolutely loved the story as it began… with the historical angle glancing back into the past life of this woman.. an intense meeting of her self and husband…
I did wonder if this relationship would be replicated in the present time story.. but maybe it was and i missed that fact.
and again, uniquely to Paulo’s books, a truth of experience retold to us the readers; where the mystical union of the magus and brida displays some other worldly vision – beyond words yet wisdom that perhaps somewhere in our consciousness, we all have memory of this [these] realm.
Me encantó Brida pero tengo una curiosidad desde que lo leí esa historia es real? es cierto que se puede ver esa luz en el hombre de nuestro soulmate? graciass…
Hi Alexandra,
I would try to answer your query. In one point of time it was mentioned that Brida was able to see a special light in the eyes of Lorens. The gives us a hint that Lorens too could be her soulmate. Again it was mentioned that there could be more than one soulmate in one incarnation.
The idea behind the parting of Magus and Brida was that they were meant to be together for a purpose(to enlighten Brida) and when the purpose was fulfilled, they parted ways but remained close in hearts.
The glory of love not only lies in times you spend together but also for the times when you keep their memories alive even when the person is not near you.
About that sparkle in the others eyes… I had an experience made me think is not a sure sign… Only once I saw such strong blinding light in the eyes of a man… But, he just played the indifferent. Thats why I dont believe in it anymore, but, as somebody wrote, a mere stone might become an holly object through our eyes, is us that endow the object with a magic light.
I feel that’s how it is with most of us…we plunge into the depth of the others’ eyes and loose ourselves into love. And we are able to visualize the “light”…but sometimes we just get tricked into something that is not really meant for us.
Perhaps if we look closely enough; and are honest to ourselves we may be able to figure out that it is not the kind of light the makes us feel contended? This kind of spark may make your heart pound with excitement.. but perhaps they just are not serene enough where your soul can rest in peace? And I guess this is where the concept of soulmate transcends.. when your soul is able to see through the eyes of the other person and get connected to his soul directly.
I really don’t know if I’m able to explain this.. but this is how I feel it is…. Let me know your thoughts too :)
Oh, Alexandra, how you capture my thoughts! How many stones I have made into holy objects, because that is what I wanted to see before me!!! When it comes to relationships, I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t trust my own perception, really. At this point, I stand absolutely still, unmoving. I say to myself, if something is meant to be, it will come to me and it will make itself blindingly evident, beyond all doubt. I won’t have to try to “make” things happen – it will all just come together quite naturally. And I don’t think I will miss my soulmate by adopting this stance. If I have become somewhat reserved due to past experiences, and this air of reserve is like a great dragon standing guard over me, then my soulmate will simply come in the form of a fearless dragon-slayer. He won’t be deterred.
I love this book! I just love the story, I wanted to see Brida end up with the Magus too but it was from the beginning a dead giveaway, when the Magus asked what Brida would do, who she would choose.
That showed that the relationship was for a temporary purpose, to enlighten Brida.
Dear Savita, I see your point. I expect a same dragon slayer than, quoting from your comment. Hope you find all you want soon, and me too… Have a wonderful time, bye bye.
Love
Alexandra
Well, Brida was the first book that I read. My mom gave it for me just after she read. I guess this one was the first book we read together, so, I really like this P.Coelho work. The best brazilian writer in my perspective, better than Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, et al. I’m Brazilian, I know what I’m talking about. Paulo is amazing and this book is too.
Cutting off the praising words, let me talk one thing about Brida, for you:
Although there’s a long time since I read the book (yes, I should read it again before start to give my opinions, I know), you are right, the Magus were her soul mate, but not always soul mates can be together. And… What I could learn from the book is the fact that there are more than one soul mate. Like the Judaism concept (sorry, I forgot the exact term) that says the soul of the world was shattered in millions of pieces, one for each person, and everybody has the pieces that can fit with yourself, like a puzzle.
So, her husband wasn’t THAT soul mate. But, he was also a person who could make her happy AND, like you said, they were engaged.
Hope I didn’t make some confusion with another histories. Sorry by any mistake, friends. ;)
i loved the shining eyes in the book and i am happy that the book accompanied me in the “search” for the shining eyes in my life.
and i believe that it is possible to find more than one soul mate in each life.
and i can understand that she decided against the magus…
everything has its time
Funny – everyone is talking about the shining eyes. I had forgotten all about that. I just keep thinking about that light over the left shoulder of the Soul Mate. Though I’ve never seen it, somehow I can just identify better with the idea of that ball of fire appearing over the shoulder. Perhaps we are just each drawn, quite naturally, to certain ways of seeing.
I loved the book, but, even if many says they understood from it what is a soul mate, I get only very confused. Because The Magus let Brida go. But they were soul mates. Than why???
Else, I loved all the story, with the rituals in the wood, with friendship, the things to discover, love. I think again how interesting a forest as initiation place. Can we see that as a mandala, or labyrinth, a place open only for those who can pass through certain tryings? And the passing of souls through time and space, and idea maybe of Indian origins? Why I see the Magus so similar to you?
Again Brida have choices, is her to decide, and she take all risks.
She is a lucky woman, being engaged with a wonderful man, and having this soul mate, the Magus.
I would like that she stay with the Magus. Sorry…
P.S.
I found the song, Leona Lewis – I See You (Theme From Avatar)that echos Brida and the Magus~~~~ I believe that’s how we find our soulmates and there are lights shining in their eyes as written in the book.
I received Brida as a birthday present from a close friend.
It made me believe that I could, should and must love again.
Brida was a life changing book for me
It gave me a chance to dream again, and helped me make sense of what was happening or lacking in my life. .
Paulo has been my guiding angel ever since i read Brida almost three years ago. . i dnt know if he knows that i call on him to guide me through. .
I read Brida in July of this year and I found it fascinating , I felt the book really illustrated that we all have a destiny waiting for us like Brida and that our soul mates are a big part of that destiny. I have read some of the posts of complaints about the ending but I believe its the ending that makes the book honest. She found her soul mate and they enjoyed one another but just as the world spins so our destinies continue and so soul mates are separated.I enjoyed brida and felt like it spoke to me.
to tell the truth i found the novel boring…..it was a bit too strange….even though the zahir and the alchemist taught me very intersting things about life……
Brida was the second of your books I read, I have to say from the first I was hooked, I found it so enlightening in a way that makes you ask is it real or is it fiction. I think to be honest that is for the reader to conclude, I like to think it is real and loved the way I came across Brida in a later book, wonderful.
I thank you for sharing such joy with us.
I read Brida about one and a half year ago. It is such a wonderful book. While reading this book my mind became clearer and I felt that I got some answers to my life situation at the time. It helped me understand life better. I am so thankful for this book. It was such a gift to read it. Now, one and a half year later I think it is difficult to find the right words because when I read something it is an experience of the moment, and while it lasts more than a moment too, my mind forgets in time. Now I would like to read it again and I hope to discover it once more. Happiness, clarity, strenght, wisdom, courage, true to oneself, life, soulmate, magic are some of my feelings and words about the book. Brida is a magical book close to my heart.
Sincerely
Nadia
Hello! Each book which is fallen to me into hands, связанна with my spiritual mood. In your books always I find answers, to the questions. Thank you for it! The big, simply huge your admirer)
About the book “Brida”. Speretichesky thought, sense searches… Likely everyone would like to possess improbable abilities… Reading the book, I am in similar sensations. Each book which to me was fallen into in hands, has always been connected with my spiritual mood. In your books always I find answers, to the questions. Thank you for it!
many time I think we are not looking for a soul mate but the one ourselves .if we dare see we’d see the lone in our own deeply heart then we want to find someone who can understand us who can appreciate us who can see us loneliness and console us ,when we found them ,we called them our soul_mate .but our soul have so many kinds of loneliness.that we always feel failure and disappoint at our soul mate that’s we beginning to search for another but no one can console our lonely except we know how console it ourselves till that day we would find our real soul-mate maybe it is just ourselves .
Hello Dear Paulo Coelho,
Whenever I read inspirational books or watch inspirational movies, about successful people, I want to be the lead character. However, they cannot motivate me enough to take action. They make me feel like a passenger who has missed the train.
When I read your books I want to be like The Shepherd, Maria, Veronika, Esther and especially Brida! Your books not only make me want to be like them, but also make me achieve my dreams. They make me feel that I have the capacity of accomplishing anything I want and it is never too late. 12 years ago, I read The Alchemist for the first time when I was 20 years old. I read Brida last year and it is already changing my life. I just want to thank you as one of the lucky persons who learn and gain many things from your brilliant books.
All the best wishes,
Ayse
Amigo Paulo,
O Alquimista foi o primeiro de todos os livros seus que li.Passava por um momento de grande turbulência espiritual e por três vezes, seu livro chegou a mim. Mas como “tudo está escrito”, ele ajudou-me a encontrar o meu caminho. Acredito que temos dentro de cada um de nós um mago e uma bruxa em potencial, portanto sou a própria “Brida” e achei meu Anjo da Guarda quando li “As Valkíria”.
Obrigada amigo Paulo, por seres este escritor maravilhoso que faz com que possamos fazer nosso Caminho até Compostela, sem ao menos sair de nossa casa, ou o exercício da velocidade, aprendendo e conhecendo cada detalhe que passa desapercebido no nosso dia a dia, as maravilhas que Deus nos dá. Obrigada por você ter me ajudado a encontrar o meu caminho.
Que Deus te abençoe, e Maria te proteja.
Grande abraço.
Tenho certesa de que Brida é um dos mais lindos livros que depois do Diario de um Mago Claro!!! li…tive o praser de ler logo que saiu depois aprendi ler o Tarot..fui iniciada num coven Wicca no Rio de Janeiro e sou sua fã de carteirinha…leio td que vc escreve blog no G1 ..raro me comunicar mas agora esta registrado..rsrs
Mr. Coelho I think you are genius. The first book of yours I read was “The Zahir”
It was brilliant and totally different from many other books I have read before. Your sense
Of imagination and tying them to our everyday lives is brilliant. I got the “the Zahir”
from my daughter. She recommended the book to me and told me that I should read it
and how she loved this book and could not put it down once she has started it. True enough
The book was fantastic. I just finished reading my book on the way to the airport and so reaching the airport I went strait to the book shop to get another book for myself to keep me companied
during my travel and I was ecstatic to see another Paulo’s book on the self “Brida”
I don’t know what to write about “Brida” I am short of words; I only could scream BRILLIANT again. I love your books and intend to read all of them. I want to thank you for the wonderful books that you have written.
As one of your reader stated I too been so profoundly effected by the passage in this book
“How Wicca explaining to Brida that everyone questions the meaning of life. Why were we put on this planet?” I am happy that I discovered your books. Thank you very much again for giving us this wonderful gift.
I was really greatly impresed after reading this book. It was very useful for me, because I also want to find a real sense of our life and existense. I had a posibility to uncover many things which were ununderstandeble for me. I’ve finished reading ” BRIDA” yesterday and now I am looking forward to going to the shop and buying another one.
Recently I was a very talkative women but now I understand that the God is in our words and we should think carefully before saying.
You are a very skilful man, because you don’t say stetements, you say a verity(truth). You are not a guide, you are the edifier(as you write in your book)
Thank you for your books and yoour existense. You really help people to understand our beeing
so it’s a twelve step thing-ugh
Dear Paulo,
Thanks for giving us Brida, after reading it I couldn’t read anything for few days as it has left its impact on me…. n I was enjoying it.
Sometimes I imagine myself to be Brida and that dark night frightens me.. sometimes I seems to be confused like her as I am also at the same stage where I have to find my own soulmate… and like brida even I can’t see the light above anyone’s left soulder. I wish if things can actually be like that I can also some day find my soulmate with that light…. Amen!
I don’t know what to write I am short of words… But from bottom of my heart I love your books and they seems to be reality for me. THANKS SO MUCH.
Dear Paulo,
Just finished reading BRIDA…I haven’t learnt a single new thing from your book rather it reassured me whatever I have already known but always doubted. Thank you to the Greater Power for reassuring me through your book through a wonderful man who referred me the book. When I was about to abandon my search for my Soul Lover, I was given the sign again never to Give Up. I wish my journey and the journey of others like me to fill our void, our lonliness will end someday soon.
Dear Paulo! my name is Ksenia, I’m from Ukraine.
I want to thank you for the wonderful books that you have written. I am 16 years old. philosophy, I got carried away not so long ago, and the first book that I have read was “The Alchemist”. I have read many of your books, not all, but I intend it to do.Influence your books, I began to write myself, friends say I have talent, but I think it’s you gave me a piece of your soul through your books.I promise to myself that I would write a book about love, but love is not just about two, about one of love to all world.Sometimes I wonder what how strongly you feel God it`s very hard, but you did it. I am happy that I discovered a writer for myself, as you. Thank you very much again.
wednesday afternoon i sat reading Brida outside a shoppingmall on the egde of a pedestrial flyover. i was waiting for my daughter. That flyover is one of the ugliest places in this city and i was glad to block it out and dive into your book. Then a man in a thick army jacket squatted down next to me. ‘Interresting?’ he asked, i nodded. ‘Whats it about?’
‘It’s about how to manage everyday chaos, it gives a little believe in that things make sense’, i answered.
Everything about him was square: his built, his glasses, his haircut and his thick golden ring too, with inscriptions in arabic. He talked about his work. He’s a gardener in the park nearbye, takes care of the childrens farm, walks the animals too. ‘The job is nice but my collegues are bad’. And he told me how angry he was, they had been talking bad about him behind his back. And now he was going to show them, he was not to be jocked about. They were going to pay for this.
i felt intimidated and thought about getting up and leaving. His anger felt so close and hot it made me very uncomfortable.
‘So if you think about elements, what would you say is the strongest?’ Looking for anything to distract him all i could come up was a line this. But without wondering about my weird question he said: ‘Fire! Fire is the strongest.’
‘And water?’ i asked, ‘doesn’t water extinguish fire?’
‘Then it’s water!’ his answer came as if out of a pistol.
i offered him a cigarette and as he lit mine we smiled in each others eyes. The fire was leaving him, returning to proportions, like into his lighter. ‘Or earth.’ he added. ‘Earth is the most powerful. You are earth.’
We smiled at each other again and he talked about how he once had dreamed of becoming an actor but realised the stage was nothing for him, how desperate he had been looking for the right thing to do with his life, living with his sick mother, poverty all around. But he had discoverd RAP, he said. ‘Right, a turkish 45 year old rapper – way to go man,’ i thought to myself. ‘RAP comes from the heart,’ he said and pounded on his chest with his fist.
i told him about this artist i know who had stopped working and how this almost killed him, how he started to destroy himself by destroying his works. ‘Creativity has to flow! You have to do something with it or it builts up in you and eats you.’
‘Yes, i have to do something with it!’ his eyes clung to mine and there was a pussle in them. But men can’t cope with pussles for too long, now can they, and resolution was close at hand.
‘No you can’t have my telephone number, no you may not kiss me. And i got to go anyway.’ i got up, he did too, he turned in direction of the mall, i turned in direction of the stairs.
i grinned at him.
geluk, hoop en liefde i said, – what a cheap sentence, like a message from a tatoo: luck, hope and love – where did that come from, i can do better than that, i shook my head at myself.
But as i walked town the stairs i realized that i had actually helped him deal with his anger, and it had something to do with your book.
amazing isn’t it how things seem to connect and flow about and before you know it, someone becomes unstuck and red anger changes into blue hope.
I have been so profoundly affected by a passage in this book (page 138). Wicca is explaining to Brida that everyone questions the meaning of life. Why were we put on this planet? Since this is a mystery that can never be answered, we need to find a way to accept the mystery. Our best option is to follow our dreams. This is how we create a meaningful life. Our dreams are the reason we were put on this earth.
I have recently began listening to the Universe. Occasionally, I can hear the sounds of nature. I am seeking my Personal Legend. I have received some signs that have given me an idea about my path, and that it involves working with animals (horses, in particular). I’m not sure how my path will unfold. But I am looking for my path.
Namaste,
Gillian
P.S. I am enjoying the gentle kindness that your books always inspire in me.
Respected Paulo,
I got over with “Brida” a couple of days back. The ending didn’t really turn out to be as I was expecting it to be. Rather it was against my dreams and my imagination of the perfect dreamland I have always wondered about. The parallel universe I live in. I have never been in , well, a relationship or love. But, I have always believed that someday, I will meet my soulmate. All my life, till now, I have believed that you meet many people in your life, like then, get attracted to them, etc. Some you deeply like. But, you fall in love just once, with your soulmate and spend your life with that person. Now, after reading “Brida”, it’s ending, all that I have believed in, all my life seems to be not that true.
Can you please answer this one question, I can’t seem to find answer for… Why did Brida leave the Magus, ( rather, the Magus asked her to leave), when they knew they were each other’s soulmate and they were, I guess, in love as well??? Atleast, the Magus was..
I just want to know this because it has been days that I got over with “Brida”, but I have not been able to, rather, absorb the ending. Whereas, I believe I loved the ending, but I don’t think I’ll be able to accept it, untill and unless I know why it happened the way it did???
I did really appreciate if I can get an answer for this.
Thanks alot.
your books open up about a world,the world of magic….
even though it all seems fictional,i understand they have somewhere happened,u have somewhere experienced…..
ur words instill in me a deep search for the magic of life…..
and my curiosity wants me to look forward to learning magic……
i am in need of a master who can teach me about white magic……
i want to understand life and myself better……..
we all have a brida within us in search of our true loves and our deep meaning for life…….
i love you paulo…….
Добрый день, Пауло! спасибо Вам огромное за Ваши творения!!!! каждое Ваше произведение приходит ко мне в руки в свое время. когда возникает неразришимая ситуация в моей жизни именно в ваших книгам я нахожу ответы на свои вопросы. Брида – открыла мне глаза я поняла очень многое что происходило со мной и было необъяснимо разумом. Благодаря Вам и Бриде я поняла и осознала многое в своей жизни.Удачи Вам и Ангела хранителя. С любовью и уважением, Ирина. (Украина)
I feel incredibly enriched and renewed after each read. It stirrrs my soul and my mind up. Really lovely. I promised myself that I am going to read little passages from your books at my yoga sessions. Thank you.
Да, почитать в оригинале конечно было бы хорошо, но я думаю что читая перевод тоже находишь много интересного.
В каждой Вашей книге есть особенно интересные мысли, некоторые из них заставляют задуматься…
Самое интересное еще и то, что Вы не пишите о чем то новом, неизвестном, а просто открываете людям глаза на то, что они уже позабыли, или отодвинули на второй план в своей обыденной жизни.
Спасибо Вам за ваше творчество!
Здравствуйте, уважаемый, Пауло Коэльо. Я ваша читательница из России. Мне почти 16 лет, я люблю читать, но увы у нас в стране велика проблема того, что подростки перестают читать. И я уже начинала входить в их число, так как книги в наше время перестали быть интересны. Зачем читать, если можно посмотреть фильм с крутыми спецэффектами или психологическим напряжением. Но однажды, на одной из социальных сетей я нашла фразу о том, что крайнюю книгу, уоторую прочитали многие люди стала “Алхимик” П.Коэльо. Меня это очень заинтересовала. В поисковике я нашла много информации про Вас и про ваши книги. Купив “Вероника решила умереть” мне очень понравилось Ваше творчество!!! Вы просто замечательно пишете. Конечно, наверное намного интереснее читать Вас на оригинальном языке. Нам, русским с этим повезло меньше((( Но я настолько пришла в восторг от “Вероники…” что решила прочитать каждую вашу книгу. Вчера дочитала “Брида”… она мне очень понравилась. Хотелось бы читать о вас всё больше и больше, спасибо огромное за то, что Вы есть!!!! С уважением, россиянка Евгения.
hola a todos y en especial a Paulo Coelho, creo q al igual q todos aveces no nos gustan los finales q tienen sus libros porq estamos acostumbrados al…vivieron felices para siempre, pero desgraciadamente eso no sucede en la vida real y eso es lo bonito de los libros de èl, porq nos hace poner los pies sobre la tierra, “triste pero real”, pues despuès de leer y pensar en el final q le da uno dice: es cierto, asì sucede en la vida real, yo no sè ustedes pero sus libros siempre siempre llegan a mis manos en situaciones parecidas a lo q se trata el ibro y me han ayudado mucho. Realmente me declaro fans de sus libros y gracias a dios por el don q le diò de escribir y saber llenar el alma con sus sabias palabras.
hola buen dia, pues nunca habia estado por aqui pero siempre hay una primera vez para todo.
bueno eres una persona que de verdad tiene el don de la escritura y creo que tus libros me han sorprendido y aveces hasta ayudado, de todos el que mas me ha gustado es el de brida, porque ella muestra que de verdad exixste el amor y bueno no solo se puede sentir amor asia una persona sino tambien a la naturaleza.
gracias
Each time I try to read Brida…I start over again …and stop in the begining where they met in the forest…& feel I don’t want to know the end of the story.
I adore the alchemist story so much!!!!
What am interested to tell :
I found three soulmates in my life with : a man who I name him My BlueSky,& he names me Sunshine, My Fraternal twin brother,& My Sweetheart
Unfortunately we still didnt meet on real life,But i will ,hope in future.
I am 25 years old,& He is in 50s i think coz i havent focus on his age,even i have it.( My relation with my family is good & he didn’t take place of my dad,or any member )
what am happy , that we are friends on the net ,phone ,around 6 years,He is From US,& am from Lebanon middle east, He prays for me everyday,& I pray for him, i feel in his love,we are both sensiive ,spiritual, he is a good friend,and full of passion & love,we have very common things together, He helped me in my problems,good listener,white heart… he loves me for nothing…just for the meaning of love…& me also feel .By the way we are of different religion.
Next year,may be i will meet him,& the strange, i was applying to the same university where he studied his graduate studies,& am so excited to be accepted and study there.
As for my twin brother, we always feel in each other,& we are different in hobbies,we complete each other as one strong unity,when i am sad ,he is more ready to help me,full of power to help me,and the opposite,we think of same ideas many times,we lived 18 years together ,shared same memories and dreams and explored life together…
As for my soulmate of different sex,I found her from the first sight,where i was supposed to know other girl in that time, she gives me so much positive energy when i see her,we are facing alot of problems 2 marry,however,sometimes we feel its enough for us to be in contact,who knows what could happen,things will come with more patience…For all lovers Be Patient :)
todo es una simbologia iluminada= ILUMINATI (:
I found my guide in my life. He is a magician. A shaman. And I felt in love with him. After reading breda i understood that he is my other half last christmas. I told him and he answered that we love in the other the unlived parts of ourselves (the shadow) and that my struggles with live are close to him too.
As he is married I refused to start a love affair with him. I feared breaking my heart too, to be honest and a didnt want to endanger his health as he had a heart attack.
He also tried to initiate me but I somehow failed becaus of my fears. Nevertheless we sometimes have telepathic communication and are very close soumates.
The stories of brida are so realistic, you can t imagine. Brida explained me what I was experiencing and it appeared in a synchronistic way. The book was a treasure to me.
Now, one year passed he is still advising me in an unbeleaving helpful manner but I am suffering of this unlived love. – Can you imagine, what shall I do ?
Sabine
Dear Sabine…a few thoughts on what you shared…Am sure that all this this must be very hard for you, but I can I only imagine how beautiful what your going through can be as well…You are saying you are suffering from this unlived love…but you have been living your love all this time…how could it be differently…how could you be missing something that is already yours? According to the book,love is liberty…when you love something and set it free, or let it be it will be yours for ever, but if you try to bring it in your own terms to make it yours, you may loose it for ever…the key to manifestation, is letting go…
Regards
dear Paulo Coelho
my name is Halya .I live in Russia, i am 14 years old. I with pleasure read your books. Now I read your 6 books, have very much liked me the book “brida”. As you see I not so well I know English language but nevertheless has decided to leave the message at you at a forum…. you are -the unique writer which books it is possible to read not coming off long time… I am very glad that you are….
I purchased BRIDA, while taking my fifteen-year old daughter shopping for summer reading. She required ‘THE ALCHEMIST’, which I had read long ago and passed on. Brida spoke to me on so many levels I am not certain I can give the impact Justice. Born to strict Irish Catholics, I have for as long as I can remember struggled against ‘conforming’. While in Catholic high school, I dabbled in the occult, not the tarot, the Necromicon; I sought a Wiccan teacher… Had I lived in Ireland (and not simply visited); I would have felt you were telling my story. I have a lovely family, though I feel a strong urge for past life regression…Where do I follow this. My teacher has passed. Thank you
Boa Tarde a todos!
Eu tenho uma dúvida meio sem sentido, coisa boba mesmo, mas não me saí da cabeça e queria saber de voces, amigos, o que têm a dizer (isso pra quem prestou atenção no mesmo detalhe)
Quando Brida faz a volta ao passado, enquanto agoniza nos braços de Talbo, ela ouve as Vozes falando sobre “os 4 anéis que uma mulher pode usar”.
As Vozes dizem que são eles: o anél da Virgem, da Mártir, da Santa e o da Bruxa, elas explicam cada um dos 3 primeiros, mas antes que falem do último, do anél da Bruxa, Talbo chega com o padre e o resto voces já sabem.
Agora a dúvida: que história é essa de anél? Porque, como, onde? E o como seria a descrição do anél da Bruxa?
É claro que eu não espero que alguém aqui tenha a resposta na ponta da língua, mas quem sabe alguém me ajuda a descobrir.
Um grande abraço a todos, espero ter vindo ao lugar certo!
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Dearest Paulo,
I am full of joy that you wrote about soul mates/soul partners. I love the perspective described that soul mate/partners are halves of a previous soul in search on wholeness. I believe that we have soul mates/partners that are equal and opposite sexes. I believe I have found one of soul partners in a very dear friend (same sex). We are able to teach and learn/follow and lead/share and listen. We both feel a mystical connection to each other, and feed off the energy of one another. I have experienced philos in the most intense form I could imagine. In regards to eros, I have loved and lost several times and recovering from a marriage that was full of joy, ecstacy, love, companionship, but also equally full of pain, destruction, chaos and loss of self. I regret not my love, the eros I shared with my wife. I am proud to shepherd 2 physical manifestations of that love.
I am growing and learning from all experiences, and recently picked up a book about the 4 male archetypes (King, Warrior, Magician, Lover) and their shadow forms (immature masculinity). While there are many mature forms of the masculine archetypes I possess, there are also many forms of the bi-polar mature archetypes and immature masculine archetypes I possess. I could begin to grasp or understand how to move from Boy Psychology to Man Psychology without some of your indirect guidance first. I am eternally grateful for my journey and the path in which I am on now.
It seems many men these days are stuck in the Immature Masculine (Boy Psychology) form these days because Western culture has gravitated away from rites of passage or initiantion ceremonies (rituals) from making boys into men. Some might argue that military does that, but they neglect to see that while military might satisfy the Warrior and maybe the King and Magician archetype, it completely destroys the Lover archetype.
Without all 4 archetypes in harmony, Mature Masculine form cannot be achieved. My therapist and guide suggested that I create my own rites of passage for my son and daughter. My therapist even suggested that I explore archery as a rite of passage for the Magician archetype.
Thank you for allowing me to share.
Warmest universal regards,
Martin
Thank you, Thank you, Mr Paulo. The book Brida has open my mind in many ways. The shining eyes that people dont normaly think of or look for.
всем привет,я очень люблю читать Пауло Коэльо!Книгу “Брида” я закончила не так уж и давно,было интересно читать,но если честно такого конца я не ожидала!!!!Конец очень огорчил!я ожидала,что Брида останется с Магом,но ведь Коэльо всегда нас удивляет!
я думаю это книга,так же как и все в первую очередь про любовь!просто познают её чуть по-другому,свои способы,свои правила!а вообще автор замечательный,книги тоже чудесные,после этих книг не хочется ни одного класика в руки брать
HOLA, NECESITO SABER CUAL ES EL REGALO ESPECIAL QUE DA DEL MAGO A BRIDA. PERO PORFAVOR ES URGENTE, GRACIAS
dear Paulo Coelho ,
My mane is Luisa and I read many of your books and I like it much .
I read also BRIDA
I wish to ask you something : WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT GOD ?
You talk about also about God and Universe and different people, and sheper and journeys in your books , but here is the same question
REALLY , DO YOU KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT LORD? do you really understand something? and about magic? and universe ?
ASWER PLEASE
peace
Brida. The story resonates with me so much I could not continue or finish reading it on my initial attempt. For a couple of months I delayed reading it as I kept seeing a lot of me in Brida. A lady seeking her destiny and struggling to find balance between life and her quest for love, for Truth, the
Path and the strong desire to transform self.
My only question is, regarding the teachings about the Traditions of the Sun and Moon. I find it too metaphoric and philosophical.
Hola Paulo!
Brida fue el segundo libro tuyo que lei, despues de recibir como regalo El Alquimista que lleno de tanta fuerza y energia, en una de las tantas ferias del libro que hay en Lima, Peru decidi comprar Brida, ya que la universidad veia que mas de una de las chicas leia Brida, y como estaba indecisa en que otro libro tuyo leer me deje llevar por el comun de la clase y en esta feria compre dos copias de Brida, sin saber de que se trataba pero si sabia para quien seria la otra copia, una persona que conocia de muy poco pero que me atraia tantisimo y sin motivo alguno se lo regale y al parecer lo empezamos a leer en contemporaneo y cuando podiamos discutir del libro entre una de las tantas conversaciones con esta persona especial, descubrimos que eramos el uno para el otro que eramos la otra parte de uno con el otro con solo mirarnos y comunicar con la mirada, por esta bella obra Brida, me hiciste descubrir que mi otra parte estaba cerca de mi pero que tarde o temprano cambiaria pais y arriesgarlo todo por ese amor que nacia me hacia mas fuerte y me hacia luchar para estar con el y hasta el dia de hoy estamos juntos unidos por el amor verdadero y no bastan las palabras porque solo la mirada y el pensamiento nos une. Gracias Paulo una vez mas por Brida y soy mas afortunada aun porque Tu firmaste mi copia y la de mi esposo en Roma en marzo del 2006 GRACIAS y espero poder verte pronto una vez !!!
CADA VEZ QUE COMENTO Y ESCRIBO LO QUE SIENTO EN ESTE BLOG , PARA MI ES MUY EMOCIONANTE , PORQUE ES UNA FORMA DE EXPRESAR TU OPINION , LO QUE TIENES EN CIERTO MODO INTERIORIZADO Y QUE NECESITA SALIR PARA RECIBIR LUZ PARA SEGUIR SOBREVIVIENDO.
EN ESPECIAL BRIDA ES EL LIBRO QUE MAS ME AGRADA , AUNQUE HE LEIDO VARIOS DE TU AUTORIA, CLARO NO TODOS.
BRIDA PARA MI FUE UN LIBRO EMOCIONANTE , LO LEI CUANDO TENIA 17 AÑOS Y EN ESO ESPIRITU ADOLESCENTE E ILUSO ME LLENARON SUS PAGINAS DE INSPIRACION , NOSE SI ESPIRITUALIDAD PERO SI A UNA REFLEXION QUE ME PERMITIO ENTENDER QUE HAY QUE SEGUIR PASE LO QUE PASE Y QUE SOBRE TODO EL AMOR ES LA FUERZA-SENTIMIENTO QUE ALIMENTA EL ALMA Y QUE PERMITE SEGUIR EN LAS ADVERSIDADES, TOMANDO CONTINUAS DECISIONES.ME FASCINO EN ESPECIAL LA ESCENA DESCCRITA EN EL BOSQUE CUANDO ELLA TIENE UNA ESPECIE DE ACERCAMIENTO TIPO SEXUAL CON EL BRUJO QUE RESULTA SIENDO SU “OTRA MITAD”.
BESOS Y QUE SIGAS ESCRIBIENDO Y FASCINANDONOS COMO SIEMPRE.
Hello to you all,
I read Brida last summer,I have to admit that it was breathtaking..Yes, I agree with a reader’s comment that every line of it is metaphore and has invaluable philosophical meanings..The magician who teaches the trandition of sun, reminded me of a man who I was related with many years ago,from the very first page the look of his eyes came to my memory and overflowed me with reminishes of those years, when I was very young and he was much older than me but yet so pationately attractive..Anyway, years passed (I’m 38 now) and other people came and left from my life, and the “everlasting love” appeared and disappeared for several times, not without leaving marks to me and my soul..What made me to share this with you is the magician’s secret thoughts when he sees that Brida is his other half. His sutten reluctance to deal with her as he already new that sometimes love can break the glass through thousants of pieces..I happen to be in a parallel situation right now, it is the time for me to choose the right path so as to avoid being torn apart from my dark other half..I know that a strange force is testing me, it wants to see how strong I am..Will I be able to resist and move away; I know I will try it with all my strength, I will fight to stay away from an amima nera cause that’s what he is…
Paulo:
es emocionante poder escribirte, eres uno de mis autores favoritos, eres demasiado genial, tus libros siempre me sorprenden y me encanta como logras con cada uno de ellos que podamos viajar a diferentes lugares y muchas veces reconocernos en tus personajes, el primer libro tuyo que lei fue “A orillas del rio piedra, me senté y lloré”, lo lei en 2 dias…
espero seguir leyendo tus libros
saludos
PD: tengo la suerte de haber encontrado el punto luminoso en el hombro izquierdo…
Mr.Paulo thanks you because you show us the easiest way of the reality of our life ! You put all to absorbed in thoughts and when we read your books the flesh of easy way of the life is touch us all…..Your books it help me to find the happiness of the life…..
Don’t ask why ? …only follow the life…your life.
Wicca to Brida on studying magic – “When we set out on a path we always have a fairly clear idea of what hope to find.” …”Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they habve set as their goal.”
This is something that I struggle with in my search for truth. I’ve changed directions on my path a few times in my life or put things “On Hold” because it wasn’t working out the way I wanted it to.
I particularly struggle with this concept because I don’t want to have to learn completely through literature and would love to find a teacher. But up until this point I haven’t found the one that fits my needs. I also get turned off when someone wants my money to “teach” me things – I tend to think that these people aren’t really who they claim to be.
Do any of you struggle with these thoughts? What are your thoughts on these matters?
I too have struggled with such thoughts,there are times i would like a guide in my life, especially when it comes to crossroads in my life. I then think maybe the best guide we can have is ourselves, but it would be nice to have some help with that at times. Sometimes i think i take the long road to a lot of things in my life. Brida went searching and it was a fantastic story of her journey and also love, which is probably what we all search for anyway. I still await my guide in my life.
I have had a similar experience in search for a truth , to me, truth is my goal or some point where I want to see myself one day. I have never changed directions like out of my free will rather have been forced by some mystic power ( I call it GOD ) to accept certain things that came to my way before I’m ready to take the final call. I am still awaiting many things and dreaming many dreams but in real, deep down inside my heart knows that GOD may have a different plan altogether. At times I just stop planning and let myself flow and I feel better thinking that I have a GODFATHER to take care and it’s his will that we all obey at the end of the day not ours ! there have been many teachers who came to my life and passed on and each had something to say ..I still feel that it is our power within / our faith that teaches us the most important lessons in our lives.
Thank you for your thoughts, Chandrima and Therese.
I have been thinking a lot about the parts relating to commitments in this book and I think this is partly what I struggle with. Perhaps the thoughts I put here earlier are really just excuses that I come up with to rationalize why I can’t commit to my path. Maybe I need to follow the “law of life” and face my Dark Night head on?
One day, I will do just that.
Hola Paulo. Terminé de leer 11 Minutos. Creas una magia particular con tus narraciones en cada libro, sorprendente. Es que uno no puede evitar introducirse en la historia, es como si uno al igual que el personaje, estuviese ahí, pasando por cada paisaje, viviviéndo al lado de lo acontecido, al leerte, ya nos convertimos en parte de el libro, y eso lo logras, porque sabes tocar la fibra sensible de cada quien, con tu plama, tan sencilla y entendible, y al mismo tiempo tan profunda, que al terminar de leer, con toda seguridad nos queda una sensación que lo vivimos, que tuvimos uan experiencia más, y es por eso que al concluir, por la experiencia vivida, decimos que crecimos, aprendimos contigo. Entonces, que magía tan enorme.
hey paolo…,
i just wrote you this message because i’ve just finished reading brida n i wanted to know weather brida o’fern is alive or not and if she is alive who is she living with…the magus or lorens…
i liked the book but i don’t know but the ending….why did brida go with lorens if she knew that magus was her soulmate…????
i have one more question…i’m 15 and read most of your books and u said that love was not to be possesed and to be set free….but you can’t leave someone knowing that you love him..???reply me pleaseee
thanks
keerths
Le anime gemelle di brida sono sia Lorens che il maestro, lei non sceglie di andare con uno o con l’alto perchè in realtà tutti e tre sono la stessa cosa, la stessa essenza! Anche per noi è così. solo che spesso non ce ne accorgiamo, o preferiamo non farlo!
err..!!!i dun noe ur language actually….n also cnt understand…..so can u translate it in english….please Annalisa
hola paulo!
despues de todo lo dicho no queda mucho, solo que algunas personas nacen para y por algun motivo, el tuyo es GENIAL.
Hola!!! creo que cada uno de sus libros tiene algo magico, pero en especial Brida, podria verse como una historia de hechiseria pero en realidad es una experiencia que invita a descubrir lo valioso de la vida, que nos hace ver momentos magicos y personas especiales que aveces no los persivimos por estar sumergidos en un mundo convulsionado. Es capaz de hacer reflexionar sobre el verdadero papel del amor y de la mujer……
Brida es simplemente genial.
Hola Pablo la verdad soy una gran admiradora de sus obras creo q todas han llegado a mis manos en momentos en que las tenia que leer porque cada una la he leido en el momento preciso por el ejemplo el alquimista me llego justo cuando iba terminando la carrera universitaria, brida me encanto yo siempre he creido en que de verdad existe esa otra parte y como brida me he encontrado en relaciones donde me cuestiono mucho sin estar en una relacion mala y cuando lei a brida entendi muchas cosas que pasan y uno dice es simple casualidad de la vida pero no todo pasa por algo y como dice el libro a veces conocemos esa otra parte en momentos q no podemos estar juntos pero vale la pena ese solo instante y ojala pudiera seguir conociendo mas cosas para poder saber reconocerlo asi que si me quisiera brindar mas informacion para seguir estudiando y aprender a reconcerlo mejor se lo agardeceria por favor jamas deje esa pluma secar cada libro suyo inspira a muchas personas yo he visto como han cambiado su rumbo los que no sabian q existian las esperanzas …
Mr Coelho,
Are you available to council me at all? Seriously its my 28th birthday today and your book, Brida (a gift from my mother), has blown my mind in the most scary supernatural way, just when i was feeling all alone, it seems im not at all and all this crazy business isnt as isolated as i first thought.
Thank you, you have shared a gift in your writings and the kind embrace is honrable and amazing.
Regards
Emma
Wind = spirit.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
thank you in more ways than one, mostly for sharing your genious mentality but also for making me realise that maybe i havent gone mad i just need to open my mind to another level which maybe makes me special, dare i mention faeries?
which card should i play, nature or nurture?
i better go, there is trouble that needs tempting!
thanks again
emma
oh, its not my birthday anymore! oh well, what’s in a day anyway?
i dont know if you will read this i can imagine your a busy kinda guy but my lights have been switched on and its all got a bit dazzling in here, the gateway is bright, do you have any experience of it?
We were born the same day!
Love
Adriana
your very lucky then a strong balanced independat virgo its great, in the long run :O)
emz x
I read BRIDA for about a month ago.
I was deeply impressed. As in other books, i found so many in common with Brida, so many ideas that i have in my mind but cant express.
As many others we think a lot about our role and meaning in this life. And I agree that we are here to find our solemate and make our dreams come true.
Its so difficult to make a decission, but she DID it. I alaways think that the word ‘right” eg decission is relatively for every person and situation.
I also like the episode the talk between Mum and the daughter. And wish to have a teacher like Brida.
Thank you a lot for such masterpieces.
This is new experience of expressing my opinion about the book, hope will progress in future. Start reading another book – The Pilgrimage
GRAZIE ……………….. ho finalmente trovato me stessa!
I had an experience in May, months before I read Brida. This experience has shaken my life and changed it completely. I met another man, when I was in holiday with my husband. This other man was able to touch me deeply – a feeling I’ve never known before! I felt so close to him, we were like… magnets. Although we just embraced each other, so much more happened with me – I thought, I couldn’t let him go, as it felt so right.
I finished reading Brida a few days ago and this quote “…at least once in every incarnation, the soulmate who is sure to cross our path. Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days. …” left me weeping with my memories.
I’m going to meet this man again – this is what I truly feel I need to do. I’m going to follow my feelings.
Just finished reading Brida, I like most the part of Mother & daughter’s conversation at the cathedral, conversing about loving two man at the same time in a different level, even Brida’s mother was in the bridge between the visible and the invisible… I liked it most when the mother recalls how she met the other man in her life, feeling the completeness of being the strangers soul mate in a brief encounter and keeps haunting her for as long as she lives.
This is my favorite quote from you.
Ever since the time began
People have recognized their true love
By the light in their eyes…
I have recognized mine….
Jovi
Howdie!
I spoke with James Bond’s daughter yesterday.Yep!
Anyhoe,after that, I did my expiration and I got a rush of inspiration in (chat’s che chientifik in me!)
Brida, for me, is about the bees and the honey, suckling the mother’s milk.
oops! sorry gotta go the …bell is ringing!
It’s the milkman!
As they say in NZ…. 6 is 7vens.
:0
Hi – I’m in Glenfield. Where are you ?
Warrior of Light fan -
Ayran
Si lees el libro enamorado, veraz que tu otra parte existe, la magia del amor te llevara a Cristo y este a la vida eterna……… es verdad, doy fe…..Tu libro Pablo me ayudo a entender el mensaje, creo que tu nos ayudas a entender…..
Eu adoro suas grandes produções.Quando abro me deparo com portais que me transportam para vivências minhas, auto conhecimentos e novos mundos, onde sei que é o verdadeiro local onde repousa a alma de todo artista, no mundo do possível, fantástico, mistico e belo.
Salve a você grande Paulo e a
um outro grande “cara”, Raul Seixas.
Grato Marco Panfili.
obs:Estou escrevendo um livro espero chegar aos pés de suas obras, adoraria conversar com o sr, espero que isso aconteça breve.
Que a grande energia universal nos guie.
well, I felt Brida very close to me, maybe because we had the same experience, I mean being in love with a person much older than me, that I felt very close to my soul (maybe my other part).
I’ve never had the kind of experieces of Brida, but I’m sure that when I’m be ready, I’ll have the right experieces.
They’re waiting for me on my path.
Love.
Christina
Creo que Brida marca una de las causalidades más fuertes en la escritura de Coelho casí siempre hay una mujer envuelta o envolviendo la historia Brida particularmente representa la fuerza natural en las mujeres conectada con la tierra, con la naturaleza misma con el cosmos, las mujeres traemos la semilla de la vida, nuestros vientres resguardan la continuidad de la especie, y por ende somos parte del más grande misterio de la creación, más que un libro de hechizeria es un libro que contiene los principios esenciales de la vida misma… el poder está dentro de cada uno esperando manifestarse cuando le permitamos hacerlo.. la magia existe claro que existe somos magia de un ser súpremo que nos da la libertad de explorarla libremente……..
I already read Zahir, alchemist, veronica, winner.
But i think this books is the most free-flow. the conversation is the most natural.
Querido Pablo, cada vez que alguno de tus libros ha llegado a mis manos, ha sido por alguna razón, me han dejado grandes enseñanzas y me ha llevado a conocerme más a mi misma. De Brida una de las partes que más me marcó, o me llamó la atención fue cuando estuvo sóla en el bosque, esa noche oscura por la que muchos pasamos para encontrar nuestro camino y nos da fuerzas más adelante cuando lo necesitamos. A mi me gusta caminar y estar en contacto con la naturaleza, en una oportunidad me fui de paseo con unos amigos, mi mamá y mi novio para la montaña, pensabamos caminar poco y regresar el mismo día, pero cuando llegamos al sitio sentimos ganas de continuar por un sendero marcado, pero que no conociamos,estabamos en un bosque con àrboles muy altos, de repente conseguimos una encrucijada y la desesperacion de que atardecia nos llevo por el camino equivocado, oscureció y no estabamos preparados para acampar, por lo que regresamos hasta la encucijada(al lado de un río)los árboles y no nos quedó más que pedirle a Dios que nos cuidara,que no lloviera, y que ningún animal nos hiciera daño, ese día recordé la noche oscura y siento que todos la vivimos. Cuando aclaró pudimos ver que sólo nos faltaba 15 minutos para llegar al pueblo. Gracias por tus libros y por compartir tus experiencias.
Dear Mr. Coelho,
I would like to say thank you for writing the book Brida, it really taught me something. I really love the book. I like the character Brida because she is like me, finding her gift and looking for answers to all her questions about life and everything that evolves in it. There are so many experiences and things happening in my life that i cannot explain… I see myself in Brida. I enjoyed every moment that I am reading it. I can’t wait to read your next book. Thank you very much for the inspiration.
andrea
Hola ..este es el momento mas emocionante de mi vida,el poder escribir algo para ty,que me has dado tanto con tus libros y Brida fue mi primera y mejor experiencia cuando entre en contacto con tus letras, su sentir, su fuerza su amor y esa presencia tan tangible del mago…esa es mi vida relejada en ella .y no podria saber cuantas veces la he leido,y a la vez descubierto cosas nuevas pero lo mas valioso es todo ese aprendizaje que nos dejas a traves de la sencillez misma de las palabras…mi amor y admiracion por siempre
Hi ^^
Actually I have nothing really special to tell you, apart that I sincerely enjoyed every second I read the lines of your books. You make me feel like I learn things I have always known but never thought that much about them.
I also have to recognize that I spend much more time on one of your books than on another one, and that’s nothing but a good thing, because yours are filled by enlightened ideas and metaphores; almost every line is important in the devlopement of the story: so, the result is obviously a full moment of pleasure!
Love and respect for your Gift;
A Finnish-Moroccan admirer :)
Hello…
I want ask once question. It’s tru that you wrote in Brida?
PAULO, EL HABER LEIDO BRIDA PARA MI FUE REALMENTE IMPACTANTE, DESDE MI PUNTO DE VISTA ESTA CUESTION DE LA HECHICERIA ES MERO MITO, PERO LA MANERA EN QUE TU LO NARRAS REALMENTE ME ASOMBRA Y ME TRANSPORTA AL MOMENTO, SE QUE TU ERES UN ANGEL SUPER CONSENTIDO POR DIOS YA QUE TE HA DADO EL BELLO DON DE LA ESCRITURA PERO ATRAVES DE ESTE DAS UNA ENSEÑANZA INVALUABLE, LOS CONCEPTOS QUE DESCRIBES DESDE COMO BUSCAR TU CAMINO, INVESTIGA, BUSCA NO CLAUDIQUES, SIEMPRE HABRA ALGUIEN EN TU CAMINO QUE TE PODRA GUIAR, EXPLICAS BELLAMENTE LO QUE DEBE DE SER UNA RELACION SEXUAL, EL AMOR A UNO MISMO TU SER TU CUERPO Y SOBRE TODO LA DESCRIPCION TAN MARAVILLOSA QUE DAS SOBRE UN AMOR VERDADERO (TU OTRA PARTE) QUE NO IMPORTA IGUAL QUE NO SIGAN EL CAMINO JUNTOS PERO QUE TUVISTE LA VALIOSA OPORTUNIDAD DE CONOCERLO Y DISFRUTARLO PARA MI ES ALGO QUE DEBERIA DE SER ASI, INCLUSO EL CONCEPTO QUE DAS SOBRE LA MAGIA (HECHICERIA) Y EL CONCEPTO DE LA RELIGION “TODO LO QUE ESTA HECHO POR AMOR” ES DE DIOS, REALMENTE BELLO, GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESA SABIDURIA QUE TE FUE OTORGADA PARA PODER LLEGAR A MILLONES DE CORAZONES Y PODAMOS REFLEXIONAR EN NUESTRA FORMA DE VIVIR, ERES UN VASO DE AGUA FRESCA EN MEDIO DEL DESIERTO.
Aun recuerdo cuando lei tu primer libro, aun no lo pones abierto a la discusion pero fue Veronica decide morir, meses despues papa me llevo a una feria de libros y volvi a mi casa con todos los libros que estaban en existencia en ese momento.
Cuando lei brida descubri lo complicado que puede ser el amor en un punto, gracias por escribir, realmente tus palabras me han hecho acomodar las cosas que parecen ir de momento alreves en mi vida y eso fue algo que aprendi del mago de brida tambien, por muchos años me escaquille como el, esperando y de momento me canse ahora me doy cuenta que me rendi muy pronto. Gracias por tus palabras, aun cuando no tengo la certeza que leeras las mias, igual, gracias por todo ^^.
i dont know hw i should address you… you have come in my life as a form of communication from GOD. through your books, you have added meaning to my life. I have read many of your books, currently reading BRIDA… i wish i can share with you my life story but love is not meant to be flaunted publically. its something that anyone who feels it, can see in my eyes… Can feel in my laughter.
I love your words :) i wish i meet you someday
ola paulo. venho agradecer pela sensaçao maravilhosa que o livro brida trouxe ate mim..é excelente, fez-me sonhar. obrigado,karla
Hola Paulo,
Es un honor leer tus libros, en especial Brida y La Bruja de Portabello. Tal parece que me conoces, en cada uno de esos personajes me encuentro yo. Tanta gente como Brida busca un mundo al que yo le e estado uyendo toda mi vida. Pasa que siempre es mas facil contarla y leerlo que vivirlo.
En fin, Brida desperto en mi preguntas que no me habia preguntado. Por ejemplo, por que le temo/uyo a lo que me corresponde?
Gracias…
Ely
dear paulo
whenever i was in a bad situation you appear and make me calm!
when i was in love you sent Pilar to make me calm…when i was confused and want my love from God you sent Santiago…now i need a woman who loves a married man can you help me?you wrote about men who theire women left them and disappear ,now it’s turn to write about a woman who loves a married man!
Best regards
I’m right here, I’m a woman and I love a married man, Paulo Coelho.
I have no control over loving him, I’m so attracted to him and it’s such a strong force for me that it’s out of my hands, I guess that’s what love is right? Yet because he is married, it makes it difficult for me sometimes. I mean, when we love someone, we want to be near them and close to them, and from the point of view of him being married, this creates a clash because of many reasons and considerations.
I think the same issues exist either for a man or woman, mostly because of accepted popular norms. But how does one stop love? I don’t think it’s possible. Love is the greatest force mankind has known. The most popular stories have been love stories, Romeo and Juliet for example, their love was unstoppable!
This might be needless to say but I hope I have not made you feel uncomfortable Paulo.
love and kisses
C.
I am a man and I love the same married man.
Joe
Namaste,
I am still processing this book to put my reactions into words, but I wanted to thank you for this work. It touched my soul. I listened to it read three times after I read it. It’s power and resonance really woke me up, so to speak. You’re gift for simplicity is enviable, to say the least.
Love to you
QUERIDO PABLO TAMBIEN TENGO LOS LOBULOS DE BRIDA Y ME EMOCIONO SABERLO ,SIEMPRE ME FIJO EN LOS LOBULOS DE LAS PERSONAS PUESTO QUE NO SON COMUNES LAS QUE LOS TIENEN COMO YO , ME GUSTARIA SABER MAS DE LA TRADICION DE LA LUNA .
ME GUSTAN MUCHO TUS OBRAS LAS QUE MAS ADMIRO SON EL GUERRERO DE LUZ Y TRATO DE SERLO DIA A DIA UN GUERRERO DE LUZ EN LA VIDA , QUE DIFICIL , SOBRE TODO EN TIEMPOS DE PANDEMIAS, EPIDEMIAS, CRISIS, MALAS POLITICAS Y GENTE EGOISTA QUE SOLO BUSCA LLEVAR AGUA A SU MOLINO SIN IMPORTAR COMO NI CUALES SEAN LAS CONSECUENCIAS SOBRE EL OTRO ,SOBRE EL PROJIMO .
GRACIAS POR SER LOQUE SOS UN GUERRERO DE LUZ CON MAYUSCULAS QUE AYUDA A MUCHOS A SEGUIR EL BUEN COMBATE ,TE FELICITO TU DON DE TRANSMITIR Y ENSEÑAR ES ESPECTACULAR HACE VIAJAR CON EL CORAZON EN LA MANO Y LOS OJOS LLENOS DE LAGRIMAS DE EMOCION ,GRACIAS Y ESPERO SEGUIR LEYENDO MAS DE TU OBRA QUE ES TAN IMPORTANTE QUE LINDO DEBE SER SABER QUE DEJAS TU HUELLA, Y QUE HUELLA PARA LA HUMANIDAD, PARA LA HISTORIA Y QUE ESTAS PRESENTE Y PARA SIEMPRE SIEMPRE DE LA MANO DE DIOS . UN FUERTE ABRAZO Y ESPERO SEGUIR COMPARTIENDO
DE NUEVO GRACIAS
DESDE EL NORTE DE ARGENTINA
Dulce sonrisa apareció en mi rostro al contemplar que tengo los lóbulos de las orejas enganchados a la cara, pues bien, ahora sé que soy hechicera, que tengo un don aunque desconozco cuál.
Es la tradición de la luna la que me llama ya que ésta acompaña a las estrellas y en ellas se esconden mis seres queridos día y noche. Tengo ganas de sentir de nuevo el trance alrededor de la hoguera, pero siendo esta vez yo la que está siendo Iniciada y sin la menor duda que suceda en equinoccio de primavera.
Buscaré mi Otra Parte, sin perder la fe en encontrar aquél brillo especial en los ojos, o ese punto que brilla en el hombro izquierdo. Mis fuerzas no cesarán, pues la ilusión por ser Brida siempre ganará.
Dejo mis humildes palabras con la esperanza de ser leídas por quien considero un gran Maestre. Gracias Paulo por tus obras.
Tan solo una niña que juega a ser mayor.
Silje,
Maybe your seeing the book as it fits you. Given that your traveling alone, your mind wonders into different territories as your subconsious takes over from that things that you have been thinking about in the course of reading this book. I also read the book and found that I can related to the metaphors that were given with the life of brida in relation to wisdom, knowledge and love. Anyways, may it be a magical, spiritual or psychological calling, your dreams will reveal a lot about who you are and how you are living your life. its up to you and your personal beliefs as how to pursue it. i believe the rituals only take part of you once you make it a real part of who you are… and these rituals have long been part of tradition and history so i guess we have no right in medling with such forces with out the proper guidance and supervision.
eitherways, your life is yours to make and only yours to pursue…
just a thought…..
hope it helped :D
Dear Mr. Coelho,
I am reading Brida right now (almost done), and I think it`s an amazing book which came into my life last week, as I was facing one of my biggest fears: travelling completely alone. But it has also left me a bit anxious because of what you said in the very beginning of the book, that the rituals should NOT be carried out without guidance.
I tell you this because many strange things have happened as of the moment I arrived at the airport and bought this novel, both in the physical world and in my dreams. I feel as if my soul has opened up and most of the experiences have been very interesting and exciting.
Yesterday though, I had a dream that has been haunting me all day: I was flying and felt as if I was drawn back in time(?) and that I would die if I couldn`t get “back”. It was a real struggle, but I finally “made it” and woke up completely exhausted… I am frightened that my subconscience might be moving towards territories that I should not pursue on my own. I have not done any of the rituals.
I am also wondering if any of you other readers out there have had similar experiences while reading this book? (signs, true dreams etc.) I would deeply appreciate the feedback.
I first read The Alchemist, and next I found Brida through my friend, she told me it wasn’t good, but somehow I just wanted to read it.Its it is an awesome book by the way, may be my friend didn’t understand it, but well I think I did…And as I kept on reading it, I realized how much I needed that book at this time of my life.Faith is the word, seriously, your book just enlightened me, made me think again when I’d just simply almost given up on it.I was trying to rationalize every spiritual aspect of it, and I will still continue to do so, but my understanding of the world will be different, and no more I will I feel so alone and lost in my journey, my journey through the Dark Night:)
I have so much to tell, but well, for now I think this is enough, I love you.God bless you.Take care.And, God bless everyone actually, lol.
Hi
Yes, I finished reading Brida about 4 days ago. I have always been interested in Wicca anyway and I do simple things like using crystals, cleansing them, and generally keeping myself as close to nature as modern day existence will allow.
I was so enthralled with this book and especially the part where she and the Magus take the journey within the circle.
I went to bed after finishing the book and I had an astral travel experience. It was truly amazing. My sister had told me about these. She is a spiritual healer and has experienced them. Whilst I never doubted her experiences, there is always a little part of you that needs to experience something for yourself before finally realising that it is true / possible.
My question is, did this happen as a result of me reading the book or is it something that I manifested myself. I went to bed that evening with the specific wish to visit the Middle East. I visualised it and it happened – silver thread and all.
I was profoundly affected by this and have described it in more details under the ‘Soulmates’ thread.
Love and Light to all
Maria
x
Boa tarde a todos.
Bom eu também notei algumas mudanças ao começar a ler o livro e isso já faz um tempo, tem uns 3 anos que li. Agora é como se senti-se um chamado pra ler novamente e é o que irei fazer. Acho que esse desejos internos e inexplicáveis que temos devem ser sgeuidos sem medo, pois é neles que reside a chave para a nossa passagem, evolução… seija como queiram. Quando li o livro tudo ficou mais claro e confuso ao memso tempo, também passei a ter sonhos reveladores, em um deles encontrei um livro que trazia pasagens sobre mim, mas era em outros tempos, Começaram a surgir muitos símbolos e também nomes bem diferentes dos atuais, eram coisas que eu não conhecia ainda, ou então não sabia que conhecia. Passei a obeservar melhor as pequenas coisas, a viver cada momento, era como se a neblina estivesse se dissipando, era tudo meio música e muito leve, mas também dava medo, principalmente por não ter ninguém para conversar sobre o que se passava. Porém, não segui o caminho e acho que estaguinei, se agente não exercita acaba por perder o dom… é por isso que estou sentindo novamente o chamado e agora vou seguí-lo de vez. Abraços a todos!!!
querida fabiana, una es capaz de leer las señales e interpretar los signos, cuando está preparada. Los sueños manifiestan nuestra realidad, pero mezclan en ella nuestro potencial incosciente y entonces es cuando se vuelven magicos. No temas los sueños de muerte, pues para que nazca una nueva vida dentro nuestro alguna parte, que ya se nos quedó obsoleta debe morir. yo en Brida, descubri que el amor verdadero, puede durar un dia, pero que para vivirlo, tienes que estar dispuesta a arriesgar, pues nada perderás, es más te encontrarás a ti misma en él.
Gracias Paolo por tus libros.
saludines
I think Brida is one of the most powerful stories I have ever read. It brought me to tears on a number of occasions and shook me to my very core. I don’t think I have ever been moved so much by a story…
The subject of soulmates is what first drew me to this book. Like so many other people I too am searching for my soulmate. What really shocked me was that I had someone who I am very close to and had always thought that they appeared to have a special light, especially from their eyes, unlike anything i had ever seen in anyone else. Then I read Brida… and got scared, really scared. Things are progressing with this person slowly, (extremely slowly) as we acknowlege our feelings but are both afraid…Only time will tell if he is meant to be my Lorens, or my Magus…or something else entirely.
But Paulo, thank you, for if I had never read this book I may never have understood that special light.
Dear paulo coelho,
I read brida yesterday . It took me to another world and I felt as if every word is being spoken to me.
For last few months I was tryin to understand friendship with a particular friend of mine who lives farway . Brida came at the right time for me and put everything in the focus.
Thank you for guiding me!!
brida is close to my heart.
i was bowled over by the soulmate concept and the way it is lit up in brida.
but, but, but … i want brida to go with magus
may be in some reincarnation brida will … soulmates unit at right time probably …
:-)
some time in life we ask the question ” why am i alive? ” then we give all our time to find the answer instead of continuing living and accepting that there are things beyond our comprehension. the answer that we are looking for are not meant to be found but to be felt…words are not enough to explain this but for the time being we can say that we do not know.
i will not be certain of what awaits me in my next lifetime but i feel it will be better.
a book tht will give meaning to ur lyf..a gurl who aspires for nothing actually turns out to be learning wht she had craving for.. but was it really she wanted to learn tht way or she wanted everything ready in her plate but does she hav any other choice or she has to learn by practicing..den she realizes in her own fiddlings tht she has two soulmates and she has to choose one but one has given her valuable tym and another her share of world of magic..she ultimately chooses the preacher but the other wins without being chosen as he nvr had her and hence he lost nothin..a lov maybe pinching but gives immense bliss..its a bond woven in silken threads..soft but includes a lot of strength..so flow into it and forget till u reach ultima..
Dear Astha thank you for your flow…
Love
Hildegarde
xxx
Brida eu li 3 vezes, me mostrou o quanto ser mulher é maravilhoso e sofredor ao mesmo tempo, este livro desabrochou em mim toda a beleza de ser uma Bruxa… e achei que todo o medo tem poder, tanto que voltou a ser colocado em prova na Bruxa de Portobelo, quando ela vence seus medos na escuridão… fantástico…
Just wanna ask about the letting go part. I didn’t get the meaning the Magnus always having Brida even though he let her go.
Rachel
I have been thinking a lot about your question…I have no one answer. I understand that it is said you can never lose what you do not have, so the Magnus will never lose Brida as he never had her, do we ever have anyone ? I also know from experience that after someone has gone be it through choice or death you can still hold that person in your heart and they are indeed very real. However if I am honest my preferred answer is as follows:
the Magnus was Brida’s twin flame. They have been joined since the beginning of time and will be for ever after. I think this may account for the different qualities associated with their lovemaking in comparison to Brida and Lorens’ lovemaking. Twin flames sometimes get brief glimpses of each other before it is time for them to come together, both must be ready because this union is not predominantly a romantic relationship supporting the development of two people, more an already perfected union that informs the world/all. Lorens is the key. He is not my favorite character in this book, my heart draws me to the Magnus. Yet there must be unfinished business between Brida and Lorens, something that will equipt her better for her relationship with the Magnus in the future and something Lorens needs too. Life is perfect.
I imagine a clue is in the way Lorens is depicted, he is not a spiritual seeker as such, but a scientist. Yet he has a good heart. By staying with Brida his heart will develop and he may become a scientist who thinks with his heart/brain. Like Einstein let’s say, this is what the world needs, as love is not only the energy of romance but also technology and all things. From what I can remember in Brida’s past life memory, she was not as spiritually sophisticated as Lorens, he was a Cathar and a keeper of truth ? I’m not sure, but she opened his heart and made him want to be the best that he can be. She can do this again and learn that spirituality is not about sophistication or formalities, it is about love, love of life, love of other and good intentions. I wonder how else Brida may benefit from this partnership ? When the time is right the Magnus and she will be together again. He has her always as they are one.
This is just from my favored interpretation, it makes me feel happy, I notice how we(in this workshop and other discussions in this blog) have different focuses and interpretations of this book, and I guess these tell us more about ourselves than the book’s actual meaning. Maybe that is why the author does not intervene too often with the “right” answer. I don’t know.
the magus had no choice but to accept his own destiny or maybe the consequences of his own choices as he had to pay for his prior mistakes, brida followed her heart which belonged to the man she was in love with, and the magus, being older and wiser in life’s law knew it would be like that.
both men were equally linked to her, they were both her soulmates
the magus is after all a human being, whether he is a magi or a witch, the point is that he combined feelings of both worlds and was able to demonstrate and show them to the only one after wicca, who was Brida, the Magus is aware that brida is not for him anymore,but the feelings he felt keep lingering in him because they have been extraordinary, therefore, even if he lets her go, he still has her, emotions and feelings alive!
I am so excited to find this blog…
I had so many questions after I read this book. I devoured it in 2 days, very unlike me. Thank you Paulo you are a beautiful man, I love all of your books, but Brida came just at a time I had to consider I may have 2 soulmates in my life at once. The answer I got was not the answer I expected.
I believe Brida stayed with Lorens because of her past life memory of the Cathars, she wanted so badly to re-live it. I believe Lorens is her partner from that time as he shows a fear of fire at the witches gathering and he loves her in the same way. Brida was warned by Wicca not to delve into that story. It is all energy, we get what we ask for ?
I want to understand why Magnus saw a light over Lorens’s left shoulder at the gathering, he at first thought it was Brida. Paulo please tell me 8-), I wonder if they were from the same soul family. Then there is the question of twin flames, some believe our soul mates get us ready for our twin flame relationship.
Like Rachel(posted above) my lesson from this book is one of non-attachment and unconditional love. The man whose eyes shine for me may be lost to me, the feelings he has given me never will, everytime he leaves me I let him go with love – it is a beautiful feeling. Quite unexpected ! then at night he comes to me, as if we are allowed to exist in another dimension together, he is always available to me. I have never had this before.
I am going to read Brida again, I am inspired by the posts I have read on this blog. Thank you.
Caro Paulo!
Este livro, assim como os demais, é muito bom! Emprestei para minha namorada e ela também está adorando.
Esta mistura de magia, amor, paixão e alma gêmea é envolvente.
Abraços!
Renato
(From São Paulo, Brazil).
Dear Paulo, thank you for this unusual book. I have read it before some days up to a solar eclipse. I think this is a signe:))) But seriously, this book has given not only a lot of new information for me and 2 my friends, but it became a confirmation of my way, in one of the moments of my doubts. So, thank you again for your book, cause this is real pleasure to read it.
Paulo:
Brida es un libro excelente, lleno de misterio, amor, soledad, sabiduría y tantas otras cosas maravillosas que con el paso de los años uno podrá comprender.
El mago deja ir a Brida sabiendo que siempre la recordará y de igualmente la amará, sabe que solo así su soledad va a desaparecer y tendrá un motivo más para sentirse orgulloso y felíz.
Felicidades éste es por mucho uno de los mejores libros que he tenido el privilegio de leer del gran PAULO COELHO!!!
Dear Paulo,
I am a vivid reader of your novels. But I was disappointed becuase there were still novels which I can’t find where to buy them. In fact, novels always sold out here in my country. I was in university when I started collecting your novels one by one. Your stories actually inspired me to continue reading and now reading became my hobby.
Dear Paulo,
I cannot say which of your books is my favourite, I don’t think it’s a good idea to compare them, but as far as Brida is concerned, I can say that it is SPECIAL to me, it is very MINE.
I first read it in Spanish a few years ago, when it still wasn’t translated into my native Russian. When reading, I got immediately attracted to and deeply interested in a few points:
1) the “trick” that Wicca applied to awaken Brida’s awareness when she was trying to read the Tarot cards. I noticed that there is really something special going on with our attention when we are involved in a long, dull phone conversation which we are unable to break. I knew it subconsciously and always kept a note-pad and a pencil in my proximity. After reading Brida, I understood why;
2) the issue with the clothes, that it should always be worn. But more than that, I liked the way you described the three reasons why we go out to buy ourselves a new item of clothing (which I extend to anything we buy for ourselves at all);
3) that all people can be divided into two groups: the builders and the gardeners. When I read it, I immediately felt myself belonging to the gardeners. Later, I discussed the issue with my friend and she said that she thought there were two more groups at least: those who watch both the builders and the gardeners and estimate them and judge them and consider them both to be fools, but doing nothing themselves. And those who watch both the builders and the gardeners and learn from them to implement the experience of both into their lives thus becoming a fourth and very special category;
4) opening up and using all your senses while making love;
5) and the light over your soulmate’s shoulder, of course.
This spring, when I was re-reading Brida in Russian, I was truly fascinated by the mother’s story – about being in love with two men at the same time. It is so beautiful!
And I paid attention to the exercise that Brida did with the shopwindow. And then, when she was sitting at her favourite place in town and watching the children frolicking around her, she thought that all of them liked reading fairy-tales about witches, but neither of them could imagine that a real one was sitting close them right that moment. I keep thinking how many witches/magus/angels I come across on a daily basis without even realizing it. Amazing!
Thanks for the great book!
I want you to know that I have read this book, Brida, about 4 times. It’s amazing! When ever I miss myself and even miss Paulo I read it, and now I’m doing it now for the 5th time! It will be never boring and when ever I read it, I learn many new points.
Paulo is miracle and I’m crazy about him
Samila
I read the book….Simply Smazing Sir…and i have to agree with u Samila…..even after reading it a 100 times or even more, i will never be bored by it….its truely awesome!
I am currently reading Brida. I started on my journey a few years ago, learning the rituals and rites of a past I am quite sure I have lived before…and reading this book has reaffirmed my belief in this path, but I very much struggle like Brida…feeling like ‘what if I get this wrong’. But, this struggle, is part of the waking up of the voice within… something I very much desire. I am working the tarot exercise now. So far, the same card has come up and it comes with a familiar sense – a notion – a feeling of having been here before.
Dearest Paulo
I absolutely love Brida, this book had such a profound effect on me, from really understanding what love means to learning to embrace those feelings and intuitions that are part of my life . I read this book 2 months ago, about 8 days after I had completed a 10-day silent meditation course which opened my eyes to so many things and was my ‘road to Rome’.
Intuitive feelings have always been apart of my life since a young age and although I accepted them I have, from time to time, tried to find a rational explanation for them. The meditation helped me to totally accept them and to embrace them, and now I feel completely in touch with my soul and the journeys that it has been on throughout the centuries. When I picked up Brida it was as if it was meant for me and was so in tune with what is happening in my life at the moment. It has also encouraged me to look, in more detail, at Wicca as this is something that really speaks to me.
Months before a friend of mine had emailed me the description of the Anima Mundi, as I had met a man I believe is my Soul Mate, it was beautiful and I thought that I understood it, but it wasn’t until I had undertaken the meditation and read Brida for myself that it made complete sense to me. When I met this man I was so caught up in what I thought love was and how I wanted him to fulfill my ideas of that and my needs that I wasn’t really listening to what he was telling me and what he was teaching me. I still have the messages that he sent me and now when I read them I see what a kind and gentle and wise soul he is. He is my Magus, he came into my life for a reason and at the right time and has been a part of this wonderful transformation that has taken place in my life.
I truly believe that this man is my soul mate, because he has taught me to really understand what universal love is. He is living in another country with another woman and I don’t know if I will ever see him again, but he is happy and is with someone who loves him and that makes me happy.
We were in each others lives for a short period of time and although we may not be together again physically I really believe our souls will forever be entwined because they are one and the same.
“-Las personas dan flores de regalo porque en las flores está el verdadero sentido del Amor. Quien intente poseer una flor, verá marchitarse su belleza. Pero quien se limite a mirar una flor en un campo, permanecerá para siempre con ella. Porque ella combina con la tarde, con la puesta de sol, con el olor de tierra mojada y con las nubes en el horizonte.
Brida miraba la flor. El Mago volvió a tomarla y la devolvió al bosque.Los ojos de Brida se llenaron de lágrimas. Estaba orgullosa de su Otra Parte.
-El bosque me enseñó esto: que tú nunca serás mía y por eso te tendré para siempre. Tú fuiste la esperanza de mis días de soledad, la angustia de mis momentos de duda, la certeza de mis instantes de fe.
Brida is the book of my soul …
Thank you so much, Paulo.
Paulo’s best book…? It’s a difficult question. I first read Alchemist (and thought the best book ever I’ve read)..Then read Brida (thought it okay)…Then I read Valkyries (started to talk more with myself, after this book)…Just 1 month before I’ve finished reading Zahir (this was great).
For me each book was a journey? No rather I will say a lesson.
Alchemist thought me to go after my dreams. It thought me that dreams should not be kept side because of loved ones in your life. Also Santiago’s life at the crystal shop thought me that “NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW, IF YOU ARE READY TO GIVE YOUR BEST…LIFE HAS A GREAT POSSIBILITY”
Brida – Maybe I was not at ready for this book. For years people recognized soul mate by the light in their eyes (Oh…How PEOPLE LIKE ME FORGOT THIS LESSON?)
Valkyries, It should be studied by everyone
Zahir – The book was good, especially the art of conversation.
i havent read the book yet where can i read it online?
Dear Coelho,
Brida wasn’t translated yet in our country.
Could you summerize?
I have to be honest! Brida is the best book i have ever read ! i am reding it right now i began ro read it in the morning at 12 o’clock and it’s 6.20 in my country now and i am finishing the book… i can’t take my eyes of this book, it so interesting full with interesting ideas abou the soulmate, love and sex… i looked on many things in different way and i am writing the interesting quotes out, because i know i will need it in fuure. adore Paulo Coelho and his books.
lo mas bonito de Brida para mí, fue descubrir que existia alguien que podia plasmar con palabras esa “Brida” que llevo dentro, mas aún me encanto la manera en que el escritor describe los sentimientos del Mago y Brida fue una comunión..
Bridas… mi libro favorito. Lo lei hace mucho tiempo, apenas se publico y desde entonces, siempre esta cerca de mi mesa de noche. Excelente, le agradezco inmensamente tantas ensenanzas.
Escuche que se estaba preparando la pelicula de Brida, podrian informarme de si ya esta concluida, cuando se estrenaria o si esta disponible en video?
Eu Amei esse livro.
Diversas coisas, que vc. escreveu no livro existe realmente.
Gostaria de saber, se vc. viu algumas das coisas / experiências que vc. conta na história do livro.
Num dos meus sonhos, eu já vi duas vezes essa luz que vem do meio da nuca , quando encontro com um homem que não vejo o rosto. Quando ele me dá as mãos e entrelaçam-se as minhas, eu vejo no meio do nosso corpo, uma taça que brilha forte, muito forte. Quando começamos a andar, de mãos dadas,como que indo embora, as nossas costas tem um fogo, um brilho que sai da nuca de cada um.
É aquela história,… a gente não pode ficar falando essas coisas pra muita gente, porque pode ter várias interpretações.
Mas, para mim desde que sonhei nunca mais pude esquecer.
Quando Li Brida, vi que tinha muita coisa a ver com o meu sonho.
Eu só escrevi isso aqui, nesse momento, porque é o workshop do livro e assim como eu, alguém pode já ter visto ou passado por experiência semelhante; antes ou depois que leu o livro. E eu gostaria de saber. As vezes a gente tem certas experiências e fica se perguntando sózinha, o que seria “aquilo”.?
Mas,…também lembrei-me do sonho que tive na semana passada sobre a passagem da bíblia da carta de Paulo a Timóteo ou seja se a gente tem FÉ, e AMOR temos Deus no coração e o coração é a vida, mesmo que existam pessoas que duvidem.
Beijos,
Mari.
For the last many years I read Paulo’s books. Though I have not yet red “Winner stands Alone”. As you know I have my own difficulties as a person from a traditional catholic family to accept the concept of re-birth. At the same time my Hindu Friends always talk about it. I never get in an argument with them over this. However, Brida, helped me to look at this from another view-point. “Matter can neither be created nor be destroyed”. Then, whatever we see around us are different combinations or different expressions of the same reality.
One more thing: Does Paulo make use of the description in Bible, Christ’s Transfiguration, at Mount Tabore, where the chosen desciples, Peter, John and Jacob, also experience entering a trance?
For the last many years I read Paulo’s books. Though I have not yet red Winner stands Alone. As you know I have my own difficulties as a person from a traditional catholic family to accept the concept of re-birth. At the same time my Hindu Friends always talk about it. I never get in an argument with them over this. Howbêver, Brida, helped me to look at this from another view-point. “Matter can neither be created nor be destroyed”. Then whatever we see around us are different combinations or different expressions of the same reality.
One more thing: Does Paulo makes use of the description in Bible Christ’s Transfiguration, at Mount Tabore, where the chosen desciples, Peter, John and Jacob, also experience entering a trance?
Brida is my favourite of all your books, simply because I deeply identify with her hunger for knowlege. The first line of the story is ‘I want to learn about magic’- Brida was speaking to the Magus. It was as if i was hearing my own voice, but in a place where there was someone to hear. Where i live such people are few and far between.
I felt that this book came into my life when it did for a reason. And i am still looking forward to my own ‘road to rome’
I´m Sure soul mates exist!
When i met my soul mate, I was part of an audience and he was speaking in a presentation. I was not particularlly attracted by his phisical apperance, but the world stood still and his words sounded so clear and meaningfull. While he was talking i saw my future children in his face. At the end of the presentation my friends invited me to talk with him. I was so atonished by the experience that I refused to talk with him and went home.
Next morning I woke up with my room full with butterflies and all kind of insects on my bed.
After three days of burning Inside and outside could not
belived that the cause of my state was this casual encounter. I went out to a class and the place was locked.
As I walked home my soul mate stood infront of me, all smiling at me, seeing me for first time without knowing
that I saw him first. We stayed toghether 12 wonderfull years before he die. The last thing that stayed with me, was that special shine in his eyes.
wow..amazing story! So do you think there is just one soulmate?
and isn’t the soulmate principle, just a special and appreciative way of looking at people?
Me encantó el libro!!! lo lei 2 veces, la primera fue superficial… en la 2da vez casi dos años despues me fascino!! porque?? me habia enamorado y viví una historia muy similar. Un pequeño detalle hizo la diferencia. Ese libro es nuestra historia, nuestro secreto de amor, de ese hombre, de mi mago (como yo le digo) y yo =) Nos reconocimos y estoy segura que el esmi Otra Parte, es como la sensacion de ver la luz en el hombro yo si creo que se la e visto a el. es un libro lindisimo y sobretodo entendible y aun mas magico si estamos enamorados. Gracias Paulo!! grandeeeeeee… Visita El Salvador por favor!! =)
disculpa que me meta en tu comentario, dices que viviste una historia similar, al final de tu historia te quedaste al lado del mago o de lorens? disculpa que te pregunte pero es que yo tambien vivi una historia similar, pero como en esta novela me paso como al mago que apesar de su amor por brida, fue consiente, realista y renuncio a estar al lado de ella, por su propia felicidad, vivi lo que vivio ese mago y te puedo decir que no es facil renunciar a un amor, es como una mala jugada del distino cuando en alguna reencarnacion se cruzan mas de una otra parte, hay una parte del libro donde brida le pregunta a wicca:
-¿Podemos encontrar más de una Otra Parte en cada vida?
“Sí -pensó Wicca con cierta amargura-. Y cuando esto sucede, el corazón
queda dividido y el resultado es dolor y sufrimiento. Sí, podemos encontrar
tres o cuatro Otras Partes, porque somos muchos y estamos muy
dispersos.”
yo tube o tengo, mi propia Brida en mi vida, y supongo que la fuerza del amor que siento por ella fue la que me dio el valor para dejarla libre y asi con mi sacrificio evitar el sufrimiento de ella porque su corazon estaba dividido. le doy gracias a Coelho por haber escrito este libro y le doy gracias a dios por haberlo colocado en mi camino 2 años antes de estos echos que estoy relatando brevemente, ya que gracias a este libro y atros como a orillas del rio piedra me sente y llore y la quinta montaña tube la madures para comprender muchas cosas de la vida y del amor.
y cito un estracto de la novela Brida:
“-Las personas dan flores de regalo porque en las flores está el verdadero
sentido del Amor. Quien intente poseer una flor, verá marchitarse su belleza. Pero quien se limite a mirar una flor en un campo, permanecerá para siempre
con ella. Porque ella combina con la tarde, con la puesta de sol, con el olor
de tierra mojada y con las nubes en el horizonte.
Brida miraba la flor. El Mago volvió a tomarla y la devolvió al bosque.
Los ojos de Brida se llenaron de lágrimas. Estaba orgullosa de su Otra Parte.
-El bosque me enseñó esto: que tú nunca serás mía y por eso te tendré para
siempre. Tú fuiste la esperanza de mis días de soledad, la angustia de mis
momentos de duda, la certeza de mis instantes de fe.
“Porque sabía que mi Otra Parte iba a llegar un día, me dediqué a aprender
la Tradición del Sol. Sólo por tener la certeza de tu existencia, es por lo que
continué existiendo.”
Perdona que me meta en tu comentario, hermoso por demas. Se feliz y siente esa alegria desde adentro, porque aprendistes a sentir el amor… y eso es un privilegio, aunque duela deja una sensacion de felicidad porque amar es recordar que vivimos.
Är i slutet av boken och anar att Mästaren kommer att se Brida
gå vidare med Lorens. Varför vill jag inte det?!
Jag värjer mig så att jag har svårt att läsa de sista sidorna.
Hjälp!
kanskje du vill ikke gaa videre i ditt liv med “din lorens”…
jeg forstaa at de var vanskelig og lese den siste sidene hvis du ikke vill ha denne slutten
thanks I’ll really think about that!
In my opinion “Brida” was the first book without a real happy end. I love you for your belief in love, Mr. Coelho, but I think it is much more realistic, that the magus and Brida were seperated at the end of the book. Perhaps it is my personal story. I don’t know today, but there was a time, I did. Sometimes I think, I wasn’t reday for my twin flame, because when the room of love is so big, so endlessly, that you loose yourself in it, it is better to leave and let go.
I read this at a turning point in my life . I wasn’t sure about the soulmate thing as I feel we have many soulmates but I loved the story. One of our spiritual lessons is to unconditionally love and the magus let her go because he realised that and what their purpose was together. Call it sychronicity or suggestion but less than a week after that I saw the special light in anothers eyes and could see it in my own when I looked in the mirror. I have had to let go of the connection because he isn’t ready for it and so again practice detachment and unconditional love. This is what brida and life teaches us .
This is my favorite book ever !!
Hi all.
:o)
Brida:
Well….this book hit me like a tidal wave….so much so, it took me a great amount of time to read it….each page was both fascinating, touching and intriguing….but all with a slightly unsettling feeling that I’m sure was not intended. The hairs stood up on the back of my neck, at times.
I am a girl, who lives in Dublin, Ireland and often frequents the forests and hilltops for miles around and has, what society would call, an ‘alternative’ relationship with spirituality/’religion’….
it was like reading a childhood diary of mine.
Get out of my head, Paulo!!
;o)
On second thoughts…no…stay! Would you like a coffee while you’re here? Hehehehehe….
Seriously, I think the ideas of ’soul mates’ and the ‘nature of love’ in this book are very powerful and interesting.
Love is selfless. The Magus let Brida ‘go’ because in fact there is no ‘letting go’. They were soul mates….cut from the same cloth…part of the same energy…whether they spent each day together or not, was irrelevant because that kind of love requires no ‘possession’. I think that this is kind of what Francesa refered to here earlier aswell.
Maybe this is the difference between ‘love’ and ‘need’?
I absolutely agree with you Fi! I was in almost completely the same story, and did the same thing Magus did – sent her uncover the hidden mysteries and beauty of our World by herself when I felt she is strong enough, because “there is no ‘letting go’”, we “were cut from the same cloth…part of the same energy…whether spent each day together or not, was irrelevant because that kind of love requires no ‘possession’”.
What I also learned in the years to come, is, that there are so MANY soulmates in this world, to spend the whole life with each of them. It is not the matter of falling in love with each pair of eyes that knock us down, it is the matter of recognizing them, and share the whole of your being with them, whether they are with us or not.
Being possessive is the only thing to prevent us from being the whole again; being open means that we eventually find ourselves being the part of the whole net of soulmates, we met here and there, with the constant flow of energy, even if we never meet some of them any more…
I love it!Thanks for all emotions that I had))
Brida… (Deep breath!!)
Brida is for me one of the most important books that you have written. I identify myself with Brida because although, the story is about that twin flame, her path in order to reach for and to find out that twin flame take her to a more important task in live, she has to understand herself, she has to see herself face to face, to be able to made a decision… And I think that we all have gone through that path… we all have that moment in live in which we have to sit down and talk to ourselves thinking on us only…
I believe that we all have soulmates, but only one twin flame, and in some of our “lifetimes” we are very lucky and found our twin flame, and the circumstances are perfect… some others, we choose a soul mate, or even another person who will walk with us in a particular lifetime, in order for us to grow spiritually… then like Magus said, in another lifetime both twin flames are ready to be with one another…
Love this book… Brida is a path that many of us walk, without even knowing it…
Brida! The book that changed my life! Brida is a magical book… At least it is for me… Brida arrived in my life just on time…. It was the year of 2001, I was going through major life changes in all aspects of my life, it was a turning point for me. Among all my many changes the most difficult to embrace was to accept my own intuition that came in images or clear instructions. I graduated as a clinical psychologist, so I was ready to ask for medical help. But just the weekend that I had decided to go for medical help, a friend of mine gave me Brida. I read the book in one night, as desperate as I was to find some light to my madness. The following week I received my first tarot deck, an Angel Tarot Deck, so I started playing with the cards and connecting to the wisdom and love of my Guardian Angels who I had not talked to in many years…. then, I found the flowers, the herbs, the goddesses, the silence…. In the past 10 years, this journey into my soul has made everyday wonderful…. Not matter what I experience, I love living my life from my own center…. I would have never found the courage to listen to my voices if it was not for Brida. So, I have to say today: Thank you Paulo Coelho for this beautiful book that saved my soul, and my life. Today, my life is very different from what it was 10 years ago…. I do different things, mostly I follow my dreams and my bliss… because I am a woman that embrace the magic within me. I would have never started this path if it was not because Brida arrived in my life right on time, the moment of the darkest night of my soul….
I loved the end of Brida when the Magus allows her to go. That part brought tears to my eyes. He may have lost his soul mate to another man but he found what real love is and in that gained beyond measure. In real love there is no loss and it stays no matter what
That was beautiful and heart-touching, Mr. Coelho! Thank you!
I’m about to start reading Brida. I bought it yesterday!!
This gives me a whole reason to keep up with the reading of it and start commenting as soon as posible.
See you soon!
Well…I love every thing that Paulo Coelho writes and Brida is among one of my favourites…It’s just incredible the layout of the entire story…it’s about love beyond the wrath of possessions which tends to spoil it all…beautifully written book about the most wonderful story ever told…
Just love it!
hello,
I love the book…
I don’t know if I understand the concept of “soulemate” fully. But I love the story and the fact that the Magus loves Brida, first without her knowing it, and after she also recognised him and he could show his love, he still loves her, and he loves her enough to let her be an other man’s partner. He could have decided to become bitter or to feel hate but he just goes on loving her. That, to me, is love. And although that she is with Lorens I don’t feel that the Magus has lost her. I also love the relationship Brida has with Lorens. He is worth her, because he stays who he is and doesn’t try to become like Brida. There is a lot a breathing space in this relationship.
I was wondering if the Magus is a real man of flesh and blood, (of course he is in the story) but if his role in Brida life could also be that of a spiritguide or spiritsoulmate?
i read brida only last month – at last/finally!
Alexandra – I agree!!! the magus let her go…
how is this possible?!?!
it was the only thing that concerned me about the story – but i guess there was some higher purpose… perhaps in day to day reality they could not be compatible… they had different things to achieve and alone…
I absolutely loved the story as it began… with the historical angle glancing back into the past life of this woman.. an intense meeting of her self and husband…
I did wonder if this relationship would be replicated in the present time story.. but maybe it was and i missed that fact.
and again, uniquely to Paulo’s books, a truth of experience retold to us the readers; where the mystical union of the magus and brida displays some other worldly vision – beyond words yet wisdom that perhaps somewhere in our consciousness, we all have memory of this [these] realm.
Querido Paulo
Me encantó Brida pero tengo una curiosidad desde que lo leí esa historia es real? es cierto que se puede ver esa luz en el hombre de nuestro soulmate? graciass…
The story of Brida is based in her own story – but the Traditions are the Traditions
Hi Alexandra,
I would try to answer your query. In one point of time it was mentioned that Brida was able to see a special light in the eyes of Lorens. The gives us a hint that Lorens too could be her soulmate. Again it was mentioned that there could be more than one soulmate in one incarnation.
The idea behind the parting of Magus and Brida was that they were meant to be together for a purpose(to enlighten Brida) and when the purpose was fulfilled, they parted ways but remained close in hearts.
The glory of love not only lies in times you spend together but also for the times when you keep their memories alive even when the person is not near you.
Than is me that like more the Magus… Poor Lorens…I see, thank you.
About that sparkle in the others eyes… I had an experience made me think is not a sure sign… Only once I saw such strong blinding light in the eyes of a man… But, he just played the indifferent. Thats why I dont believe in it anymore, but, as somebody wrote, a mere stone might become an holly object through our eyes, is us that endow the object with a magic light.
I feel that’s how it is with most of us…we plunge into the depth of the others’ eyes and loose ourselves into love. And we are able to visualize the “light”…but sometimes we just get tricked into something that is not really meant for us.
Perhaps if we look closely enough; and are honest to ourselves we may be able to figure out that it is not the kind of light the makes us feel contended? This kind of spark may make your heart pound with excitement.. but perhaps they just are not serene enough where your soul can rest in peace? And I guess this is where the concept of soulmate transcends.. when your soul is able to see through the eyes of the other person and get connected to his soul directly.
I really don’t know if I’m able to explain this.. but this is how I feel it is…. Let me know your thoughts too :)
Oh, Alexandra, how you capture my thoughts! How many stones I have made into holy objects, because that is what I wanted to see before me!!! When it comes to relationships, I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t trust my own perception, really. At this point, I stand absolutely still, unmoving. I say to myself, if something is meant to be, it will come to me and it will make itself blindingly evident, beyond all doubt. I won’t have to try to “make” things happen – it will all just come together quite naturally. And I don’t think I will miss my soulmate by adopting this stance. If I have become somewhat reserved due to past experiences, and this air of reserve is like a great dragon standing guard over me, then my soulmate will simply come in the form of a fearless dragon-slayer. He won’t be deterred.
I love this book! I just love the story, I wanted to see Brida end up with the Magus too but it was from the beginning a dead giveaway, when the Magus asked what Brida would do, who she would choose.
That showed that the relationship was for a temporary purpose, to enlighten Brida.
Dear Savita, I see your point. I expect a same dragon slayer than, quoting from your comment. Hope you find all you want soon, and me too… Have a wonderful time, bye bye.
Love
Alexandra
Well, Brida was the first book that I read. My mom gave it for me just after she read. I guess this one was the first book we read together, so, I really like this P.Coelho work. The best brazilian writer in my perspective, better than Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, et al. I’m Brazilian, I know what I’m talking about. Paulo is amazing and this book is too.
Cutting off the praising words, let me talk one thing about Brida, for you:
Although there’s a long time since I read the book (yes, I should read it again before start to give my opinions, I know), you are right, the Magus were her soul mate, but not always soul mates can be together. And… What I could learn from the book is the fact that there are more than one soul mate. Like the Judaism concept (sorry, I forgot the exact term) that says the soul of the world was shattered in millions of pieces, one for each person, and everybody has the pieces that can fit with yourself, like a puzzle.
So, her husband wasn’t THAT soul mate. But, he was also a person who could make her happy AND, like you said, they were engaged.
Hope I didn’t make some confusion with another histories. Sorry by any mistake, friends. ;)
Mi piacerebbe leggere ‘Brida 2′!
I’d like to read ‘Brida Two’!
;)
i loved the shining eyes in the book and i am happy that the book accompanied me in the “search” for the shining eyes in my life.
and i believe that it is possible to find more than one soul mate in each life.
and i can understand that she decided against the magus…
everything has its time
Funny – everyone is talking about the shining eyes. I had forgotten all about that. I just keep thinking about that light over the left shoulder of the Soul Mate. Though I’ve never seen it, somehow I can just identify better with the idea of that ball of fire appearing over the shoulder. Perhaps we are just each drawn, quite naturally, to certain ways of seeing.
yes, i believe everyone has his special way of seeing or feeling :)
I loved the book, but, even if many says they understood from it what is a soul mate, I get only very confused. Because The Magus let Brida go. But they were soul mates. Than why???
Else, I loved all the story, with the rituals in the wood, with friendship, the things to discover, love. I think again how interesting a forest as initiation place. Can we see that as a mandala, or labyrinth, a place open only for those who can pass through certain tryings? And the passing of souls through time and space, and idea maybe of Indian origins? Why I see the Magus so similar to you?
Again Brida have choices, is her to decide, and she take all risks.
She is a lucky woman, being engaged with a wonderful man, and having this soul mate, the Magus.
I would like that she stay with the Magus. Sorry…