Ganhei o livro Brida no natal de 1991 se nao estou enganada.
Eu vivia em um mundo magico aonde tudo e todos eram meio para a minha constante busca… Gravida de uma menina, que ja respondia com ponta pes e cutucoes as minhas emocoes, decidimos juntas q ela receberia o nome de Brida.
Brida nasceu no dia 24 de agosto de 1992 as 7:20 da manha.
Brida ganhou o livro q leva o nome dela como titulo qdo completou 15 anos. Brida eh brasileira mas, moramos nos eua e ela esconheu ler o livro em ingles. Um amigo um dia encontrou vc (Paulo Coelho) no RJ e pediu um autografo e segundo ele, vc comentou q um dia encontraria com Brida pessoalmente, pq as pedras sempre se encontram…bem, moramos em Sarasota Florida. Um dia passando por aqui nos deixe saber…Sabemos q vc eh uma celebridade. Somos todos seres maravilhosos e acredito q o sonhamos e desejamos profundamente vem a ser realidade. Paz.
Artab y Brida é unha historia emocionante fíxome magoar, ten tanto sentimento que eu correria a encontrarme con vostedes se fora Paulo Coelho.
Un bico agarimoso dende aquí Galicia.
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 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.
I believe that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we attract even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange…
Ganhei o livro Brida no natal de 1991 se nao estou enganada.
Eu vivia em um mundo magico aonde tudo e todos eram meio para a minha constante busca… Gravida de uma menina, que ja respondia com ponta pes e cutucoes as minhas emocoes, decidimos juntas q ela receberia o nome de Brida.
Brida nasceu no dia 24 de agosto de 1992 as 7:20 da manha.
Brida ganhou o livro q leva o nome dela como titulo qdo completou 15 anos. Brida eh brasileira mas, moramos nos eua e ela esconheu ler o livro em ingles. Um amigo um dia encontrou vc (Paulo Coelho) no RJ e pediu um autografo e segundo ele, vc comentou q um dia encontraria com Brida pessoalmente, pq as pedras sempre se encontram…bem, moramos em Sarasota Florida. Um dia passando por aqui nos deixe saber…Sabemos q vc eh uma celebridade. Somos todos seres maravilhosos e acredito q o sonhamos e desejamos profundamente vem a ser realidade. Paz.
Brida e eu nascemos no mesmo dia (sou de 24 agosto 1947)
Artab y Brida é unha historia emocionante fíxome magoar, ten tanto sentimento que eu correria a encontrarme con vostedes se fora Paulo Coelho.
Un bico agarimoso dende aquí Galicia.
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.